Manufacturing Floor
Fab 5
Wild Card
Types of Manfacturers
3 letter acronyms
100
Is an initiative focused on eliminating all waste in manufacturing process. Summed up by the quote "making obvious what adds value by reducing everything else"
What is Lean Manufacturing
100
McDonald-Douglas, Boeing, and Space-x
What is Aerospace and Defense
100
A document that describes the work steps to produce a product.
What is Bill of operations or BOO
100
Production that starts only after a customer's order is received and production is specific to each customer's needs
What is Made To Order
100
List of part or item and the quantities, that make up a product
What is BOM or Bill of Materials
200
Is an Organization that promotes worldwide proprietary for both industrial and commercial standards. The Most common certifications being 13485, 14000, and 9000
What is ISO or International Standards Organization
200
Pacemakers, Catheters, and ESVS Mesh sleeves
What is Medical Devices
200
Written documents detailing all steps and activities in a process or procedure.
What is Standard Operating Procedure
200
Manufacturing that requires a combination of two or all methods of manufacturing: Discrete manufacturing, process manufacturing, and assembly.
What is Mixed Mode Manufactuerer
200
benefit derived from the purchase of an asset or a resource
What is ROI or Return on investment
300
The residual unusable material in production or defect material that must be discarded, reworked, or recycled into the process.
What is Scrap
300
Tractors, Pumping Equipment, and Packaging equipment
What is Industrial Machinery
300
Software system that coordinates purchasing activities, production, inventory, and delivery. Ensures availability of raw materials and parts for production
What is Manufacturing Requirements Planning
300
Original manufacturer of a product that may be sold or marketed by another company.
What is Original Equipment Manufacturer or OEM
300
release launch or commercialization of a new product.
What is NPI or New Product Introduction
400
The period of time from concept to availability of a finished product. or the period of time from design till shipped to customer.
What is Time to Market or TTM
400
Automotive and Metal Stampings
What is Fabricated Metals
400
Process of managing product from Prototype to Disposal
What is Product life cycle planning or Product life cycle management.
400
the process by which material is cut to a specific design or shape through the use of a die.
What is Die-Cutting
400
How manufacturers use or buy a part generally in standard measure like feet, inches, pints, or meters.
What is UOM or Unit of Measure
500
Software that exists between erp and plant floor control equipment to collect production data about production process
What is Manufacturing Execution System (MES)
500
Switchboards and Commercial l Light Apparatuses
What is Electronics
500
RMA stands for what?
What is Returned Material Authorization.
500
a production machine that is used in a highly automated fashion using programmed commands.
What is Computer Numerical Code or CNC Machine
500
unique sales stock identifier usually controlled by the business side of a company. Linked heavily to distribution
What is Stock Keeping Unit or SKU
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