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Glossary
Manufacturing Definitions
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