Glossary entry (derived from question below)
German term or phrase:
Melder
English translation:
person reporting the defect
German term
United States
Quality translations German to English
Native in: German 
Works in: German to English, English to German
Melder
Das fehlerhafte Teil wird mit diesem Formular gekennzeichnet und ist damit für die weitere Verwendung gesperrt (Formular dient als Sperrzettel).
Es ist verboten gesperrte Teile weiterhin zu benutzen.
Sowohl die Meldung als auch die Kennzeichnung geschieht durch den Entdecker (Melder).
| 4 +3 | person filing the report |
Kim Metzger
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| 4 | reporter |
Darin Fitzpatrick
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| 3 | person reporting/filing incident |
Mack Tillman
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| 3 | person reporting |
Michael Martin, MA
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| 4 -2 | whistleblower |
Cillie Swart
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Dec 9, 2019 07:39: Steffen Walter changed "Field (write-in)" from "It has to quality assurance" to "quality assurance"
Dec 11, 2019 19:14: Kim Metzger Created KOG entry
Dec 11, 2019 19:16: Kim Metzger changed "Edited KOG entry" from "<a href="/profile/9171">Kim Metzger's</a> old entry - "Melder"" to ""person filing the report""
Proposed translations
Mexico
Committed to Quality and Service
Native in: English (Variant: US)
Works in: German to English
person filing the report
| I finally went with my own translation 'person reporting the defect' but yours would have worked equally well. Thank you. |
| agree |
Tomasso
: De acuerdo, en cuanto a Tedesco, Aleman, vaya.
27 mins
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| neutral |
philgoddard
: I think you've preserved the circularity of the German - the report is the responsibility of the person filing the report. I would ignore Melder.
1 hr
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True.
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| agree |
Barbara Schmidt, M.A. (X)
: agree
7 hrs
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| agree |
writeaway
9 hrs
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United States
Engineer & Project Manager
Native in: English
Works in: German to English, English to German
reporter
Germany
Always striving to meet perfection!
Native in: German (Variant: Germany) 
, English (Variant: US)
Works in: German to English, English to German
person reporting/filing incident
| neutral |
Steffen Walter
: This is about detecting/identifying (and reporting on) defective parts/defects/malfunctions, rather than incidents caused by them. I think we should keep this distinction as clear as possible.
1 hr
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South Africa
Finance, Legal, Business Texts
Native in: English
Works in: German to English, Dutch to English, Afrikaans to English, and 1 more.
whistleblower
| neutral |
Armorel Young
: But only appropriate if other people are trying to conceal the defect, and there is no suggestion that that is the case.
57 mins
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| disagree |
Steffen Walter
: Doesn't fit the context at all.
57 mins
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| disagree |
Barbara Schmidt, M.A. (X)
: this is something else entirely
6 hrs
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United States
Creativity wins in the long run
Native in: German (Variant: Germany) , English (Variant: US)
Works in: German to English
Discussion
Melder = person/employee reporting the defect
The defective part is marked with this form and is thus blocked for further use (form serves as a check-out slip).It is forbidden to continue to use locked parts.
Both the message and the marking is done by the discoverer (detector).
https://www.seton.com/labels-decals/inventory-inspection/qua...
The defective part is tagged with (an orange?) sticker, rejected and removed from stock, stocking of rejected parts is not allowed. The rejection form, sticker is placed and filled out by the operator and inspector.