Glossary

• 5S
• Absenteeism
• Activity-Based Costing
• Activity-based costing system
• Add-On Work
• Advanced planning and scheduling system
• Advanced product quality planning
• Agile manufacturing
• Annual total inventory turns
• Approved Manufacturer List (AML)
• Approved Vendor List (AVL)
• Assembly Line
• Asset Maintenance
• Asset turnover
• Availability %
• Barcoding
• Belt
• Benchmarking
• Bill of Materials
• Bill Of Materials (BOM)
• Bottleneck
• Breakdown
• Breakdown Maintenance
• Cell
• Cellular manufacturing
• Center Drive & Take-up
• Change Management
• Change Order
• Change Request
• Changeover
• Compliance
• Compliance Mark
• Computer-aided design (CAD)
• Computer-aided manufacturing (CAM)
• Computer-aided process planning (CAPP)
• Computer-integrated manufacturing (CIM)
• Computerized maintenance
• management systems (CMMS)
• Computerized process simulation
• Computerized Statistical Process
• Control (SPC)
• Concurrent engineering
• Continuous-replenishment programs
• Contract Manufacturer (CM)
• Conveyor
• Coordinate-Measuring Machine (CMM)
• Core competency
• Corrective Action Preventative
• Action (CAPA)
• Corrective Action Request (CAR)
• Corrective Action/Protective
• Action (CAPA)
• Cost of quality
• Cpk
• Cross-functional teams
• Cross-training
• Customer lead time
• Customer Leadtime
• Customer reject rate (ppm)
• Customer retention rate
• Cycle time
• Days of inventory
• Demand flow scheduling systems
• Demand-Driven Scheduling Systems
• Design for assembly
• Design for logistics
• Design for manufacturability
• Design for procurement
• Design for quality
• Design for recycling/disposal
• Design of experiments
• Discrete manufacturing
• Document Change Request (DCR)
• Downtime
• Economic Value Added (EVA)
• Electronic data interchange (EDI)
• Empowered natural work teams
• Engineering Change Notice (ECN)
• Engineering Change Order (ECO)
• Engineering Change Request (ECR)
• Enterprise integration (EI)
• Enterprise resource planning (ERP)
• Expert systems
• Extranet
• Field Failure Request (FFR)
• Finished Goods
• Finished-goods turn rate
• Finite capacity scheduling
• Finite element analysis (FEA)
• First-pass yield
• Flexible assembly systems
• Flexible Conveyor
• Flexible machining centers
• Flexible Machining Systems
• Flexible manufacturing system
• (FMS)
• Focused-factory production
• Forecast/demand management
• software
• Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP)
• Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP)
• Gravity Conveyor
• Human-Machine Interface (HMI)
• Industry 4.0
• In-plant defect rate
• Internet Of Things (IoT)
• Intranet
• Inventory turn rate
• ISO 13485
• ISO 14000
• ISO 9000
• JIT delivery
• JIT/continuous-flow production
• Kaizen
• Kaizen event
• Kanban
• Kanban signal
• Kitting
• Labor turnover rate
• Lean Manufacturing
• Lineshaft
• Machine Availability
• Machine availability rate
• Machine Monitoring
• Machine vision
• Make to Assemble (MTA)
• Make to Order (MTO)
• Make To Stock (MTS)
• Manufacturing cost
• Manufacturing cycle time
• Manufacturing Deviation
• Manufacturing execution system (MES)
• Manufacturing Order
• Manufacturing Order Receipt
• Manufacturing Order Routing
• Manufacturing Picklist
• Manufacturing Resources Planning (MRP II)
• Material Requirements Planning (MRP)
• Mean time between equipment
• failure
• Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF)
• Mean Time Between Repairs (MTBR)
• Mean Time to Repair (MTR or MTTR)
• Mean Time to Repair (MTTR)
• Motorized Roller: Chain
• MRP II
• MRP Shortage
• NAICS
• Natural work team
• North American Industry
• Classification System (NAICS)
• Occupational Safety and Health
• Administration (OSHA)
• Off-the-Shelf
• Online order entry system
• On-time delivery rate
• Open Platform Communications (OPC)
• Operating equipment efficiency or
• effectiveness (OEE)
• Operation Code
• Operational Technology (OT)
• Order fill rate
• Order-to-delivery lead time
• Order-To-Delivery Leadtime
• Order-to-shipment lead time
• Order-To-Shipment Leadtime
• Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM)
• OSHA-reportable incident rates
• Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE)
• Pallet Pro
• Parent Item
• Pareto
• Part Name
• Part Number
• Pathway(TM) Lineshaft
• Performance %
• Pick-to-ship cycle time
• Pick-To-Ship Lead Time
• Planned Maintenance (PM)
• Planned Maintenance Optimization
• Planned Maintenance Percentage (PMP)
• Planning and scheduling
• technologies
• Poka-Yoke
• Pop-Up Transfer
• Power Conveyor
• Power Feeder
• Precision Maintenance
• Predictive maintenance
• Predictive Maintenance (PdM)
• Premium freight
• Preventive maintenance
• Preventive Maintenance (PM)
• Proactive environmental practices
• Problem-solving methodologies
• Process manufacturing
• Product data management (PDM)
• Product Development Cycle
• Product-development cycle
• Productivity change
• Programmable Logic Controller (PLC)
• Pull system
• QS 9000
• Quality %
• Quality function deployment (QFD)
• Quality Management System (QMS)
• Quick-changeover methods
• Rapid prototyping
• Raw-materials turn rate
• Real-time feedback
• Redline
• Restriction of Hazardous Substance (RoHS)
• Return Material Authorization (RMA)
• Return on invested capital (ROIC)
• Rolled-throughput yield
• Rolled-Throughput Yield
• (Multiple-Point Yield)
• Safety Improvement Programs
• Safety-improvement programs
• Scrap/rework costs
• Self-directed natural work teams
• Shop-floor data collection
• Single-Minute Exchange of Dies
• (SMED)
• Six Sigma
• SKU
• Standard Operating Procedure (SOP)
• Statistical Process Control (SPC)
• Supplier Corrective Action Request (SCAR)
• Supplier JIT deliveries
• Supplier partnerships
• Supply Chain
• Supply-chain/logistics systems
• Table Top
• Takt Time
• Technologies For Planning And
• Scheduling
• Time Study
• Time To Market (TTM)
• Title 21 CFR Part 11
• Title 21 CFR Part 820
• TL 9000
• Total cost of quality
• Total logistics costs
• Total productive maintenance (TPM)
• Total quality management (TQM)
• Transitional work program
• Unit Of Measure (UCM)
• Utilization
• Value-added per employee
• Vendor-managed inventory
• Visibility systems
• Voice recognition/response
• Wear Strip Deck
• WIP turn rate
• Work-in-process inventory (WIP)
• World-class manufacturer
• Yield improvement
• ZPS