Talk:Traceability

Traceability goes far beyond the definition given here. That is also for exemple, all what is done to insure that at any step of an agricultural product transformation, from the field to the mouth, it is possible to know exactly where the food stuff comes from, and what treatements were made on it. ant

Traceability
Traceability does go farther than stated here (as another reviewer had mentioned). It is used widely in many industries including agriculture, business, government and others. While it has different meanings, in the computer world it is a requirement for any Software Development LifeCycle (SDLC)used by any of the development processes (Rational, etc.) and means tracing requirements back to the design through the User Requirements, Functional Specification, and full lifecycle. In the FDA world, this is a requirement for all of the Qualifications of a manufacturing or computerized system. These Qualifications are (in order): the Design Qualification (DQ), Installation Qualification (IQ), Operational Qualification (OQ) and Performance Qualification (PQ). Traceability is fulfilled by through tracing the qualification requirements for each of these documents. Note: While this term has been used extensively in the computer world to ensure quality validation and verification, oddly enough Microsoft Word has never recognized it as a recognized word in its dictionary and will always come up as a spelling error.

Non-notable external links
There are a lot of external links on this article, some of which I think should be removed:


 * FQcode | Traceability Solutions
 * Intact Consult - Consultancy and software solutions for internal and supply chain traceability
 * Historic Futures Ltd - Specialists in complete end to end supply chain traceability in multiple product sectors
 * TraceTracker, a leader in whole-chain traceability in the food industry
 * Flexware Innovation: Traceability in manufacturing

If anyone can vouch that these are notable enough to include in this article, then I'll leave them. If not, I'll remove them in one week (16 November 2007). CoderGnome 19:31, 9 November 2007 (UTC)


 * The links have been removed CoderGnome (talk) 04:33, 18 November 2007 (UTC)

Traceability: Calibration
Traceability as related to calibration is often mistakenly thought of as only pertaining to the calibration side of the measurement process. This is not the case. The definition provided by the "International Vocabulary of Basic and General Terms in Metrology (VIM)" states "traceability [is a] property of the result of a measurement or the value of a standard...". This definition indicates that traceability extends to the measurement result and does not stop at the calibrated instrument. The subheading Calibration under the Traceability main heading promote this misunderstanding. I would recommend changing the subheading from calibration to measurement. --Bestshot (talk) 18:43, 29 March 2008 (UTC)

The VIM defintions of traceability all refer to "measurement traceability" or "traceability of measurement" and it is worth using these specific and explanatory terms to distinguish this from other traceability concepts. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.96.121.94 (talk) 20:56, 7 July 2010 (UTC)

Software
This section contains a sentence that I believe is worded incorrectly. Where is says: "refers to the ability to link product documentation requirements back to stakeholders' rationales", I believe it should say: "refers to the ability to link product requirements documentation back to stakeholders' rationales I understand that the first sentence (the one currently in the article as of 7-14-10) should be interpreted as meaning "those requirements contained in the product documentation". But that is not the only way it may be read. It may also be interpreted as meaning: "The requirements to which documentation is subjected" or in other words requirements on the documentation and not documentation of the requirements. My suggested wording would make it more clear that "requirements" are those set on the product and not on the documentation. The documentation is that which lists the product requirements. I'll leave it for someone else to make the correction. I may just make the correction myself if there is no feedback on this for a few weeks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Alex Pascual (talk • contribs) 16:41, 14 July 2010 (UTC)

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