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| Question | Answer |
| What's a plant | factory / facility: a place where production happens |
| Sequencing? | A key stage in the manufacturing process: supervisor decides which workstation will carry out which task in which order |
| Dispatching? | A key stage in the manufacturing process: supervisor authorizes tasks to begin |
| Loading? | A key stage in the manufacturing process: materials or parts are introduced to an operation so that it can begin |
| WIP? | work-in-progress: is the sum of all costs put into the production process to manufacture products that are partially completed |
| throughput | =Durchsatz: the rate at which work goes through the system |
| JIT | just-in-time: inventory strategy; denoting a manufacturing system in which materials or components are delivered immediately before they are required in order to minimize storage costs |
| kaizen | means continuous improvement, is a corporate culture; used in lean manufacturing; Japanese word |
| TQM | = total quality management: covers the whole organization, from areas like process control and product testing to determining customer needs and dealing with complaints |
| Six Sigma | Is an international standard for measuring quality: a statistical measure, means fewer than 3.4 defects per million items produced |
| batch process | production process: groups of products of the same type move through the process |
| job production? | production process: low volume, opportunities for customization (eg aircraft) |
| the bottleneck in manufacturing? | a specific problem that causes delays to a whole process |
| fit-for-purpose? | a product that serves its intended function, without any extra features |
| good value-for-money? | a product that has good quality in relation to its price |
| changeover time? | the time between one job/batch finishing and the next one beginning |
| cycle time? | the time taken for a given job/batch to pass through all the operations needed |
| time-to-market | the time required from the initial concept for a new product to when it first goes on sale |
| collocation | Zusammenstellung |
| to assess | bewerten, beurteilen |
| excess (adj) | = spare überschüssig, vorig |
| benchmarking | take the best practice of your competitors or your own result as a standard. Then try to match or even exceed this standard |
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