If you made nondeductible (and therefore nontaxable) contributions to your traditional IRA, you have to treat each distribution (including a conversion to a Roth IRA, if applicable) as one part nontaxable return of cost basis (your nondeductible contributions) and one part taxable earnings.
Product defects are generally put into three categories: design defects, manufacturing defects and marketing defects. Marketing defects are defects in the manner in which a product is sold. This type of defect can include inadequate warnings and/or instructions. Design defects are in a manner of speaking, intended. This type of defect is inherent in the design of the product.
When implementing the Six Sigma methodology in a plant or other business, one of the first things that will be sought are defects. This article is about what they are and what to do about them. Essentially, defects are the errors that happen in the product being produced, whatever that may be. According to strict Six Sigma methodology, any product line should achieve a 99.9+% or more error free products to gain an excellent customer satisfaction rating.