Just for discussion purposes...
IMO... A Preventive Action can be a Corrective Action while a Corrective Action cannot be a Preventive Action.
At Least this is how i interpret it.
It might not be the right way to do it but it is the best way.
Gundam_W
Well....what have we got here now?
Implying that
B = A but
A NOT= B?? Went a little mathematical though; there may be other non-quality related instances comparing the above equation to be true, but here in this case, I beg to differ.
Both preventive and corrective action are independent of each other. Define.
Corrective Action - Action taken to eliminate the cause of a detected non-conformity (so, that NC does not occur again!)
Preventive Action - Action taken to eliminate the cause of a potential non-conformity (so, there will never be a corrective action in this case!)
I dont see any direct similarity between these two independent actions. On second thoughts though, corrective action
may be the outcome of a failed preventive action, but both
cannot be the same, never the same.
If there are any examples of B = A or even A = B

, I would love to know.
Ciao.
SAM
