Other forms: reworks
Rework is putting right an item that failed inspection. Send it for rework, the rework rate, costly rework.
It is counted as waste in manufacturing even though the item is saved, because the work was done twice and paid for twice — the rework rate is one of the standard measures of a process. As a verb it also means to revise a piece of writing or music.
1nounreworkPutting right an item that failed inspection.
“Poor welding on the first batch meant days of costly rework.”
rework is a correcting.
Middle English
werk
English
work
English, today
rework
From re- + work. work comes from Middle English werk. From Middle English work, werk, from Old English weorc, from Proto-West Germanic werk, from Proto-Germanic werką (“work”), from Proto-Indo-European wérǵom (“work”), from Proto-Indo-European werǵ- (“to make”). 2
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA