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100

This famous Milan cathedral took nearly six centuries to complete and dominates the city center

Duomo di Milano

100

This manufacturing KPI combines availability, performance and quality into one number executives love putting on slides

OEE

100

This maintenance strategy intentionally waits for equipment to fail before repairing it

Run-to-failure maintenance

100

This term describes a timestamped operational occurance such as a shutdown, startup or alarm

Event

100

This room contains more screens than a gaming tournament but significantly worse chairs

Control room

200
This Italian dish made with rice, saffron and often associated with Milan is bright yellow

Risotto alla Milanese

200

This chart type uses upper and lower control limits to identify abnormal process variation

Control chart

200

This industrial reliability methodology developed at Motorola aims to reduce defects to near perfection

Six Sigma

200

This lightweight publish/subscribe protocol became the unofficial language of industrial IoT

MQTT

200

This device opens or closes to control the flow of liquid or gas in a pipe

Valve

300

This football club shares San Siro stadium with AC Milan and uses blue and black colors 

Inter Milan / Internazionale

300

This process capability metric compares process spread against specifications limits using standard deviation

Cpk

300

This Japanese manufacturing philosophy focuses on continuous improvements through small incrimental changes

Kaizen

300

This API architecture style commonly uses HTTP methods like GET, POST, PUT and DELETE

REST

300

This term describes the desired value a control loop tries to maintain

Setpoint 

400

This Italian fashion house headquartered in Milan is recognized by its double-G logo

Gucci

400

This statistical principle says roughly 80% of outcomes often comes from 20% of causes

Pareto principle

400

This chart type is commonly used in reliability engineering to visualize probability of failure over time

Weibull distribution

400

This historian technique reduces storage requirements by recording values only when changes exceed configured thresholds

Compression

400

This term describes a control loop operating without feedback from the process variable

Open-loop control

500

This Italian inventor and engineer pioneered wireless radio communication technology later used aboard ships like the Titanic

Guglielmo Marconi

500

This management theory argues that improving a system bottleneck improves the throughput of the entire process

Theory of Constraints

500

This engineering analysis method maps possible system failures using branding AND/OR logic gates

Fault tree analysis

500

This process estimates missing values between recorded data points using surrounding measurements

Interpolation

500

This industrial safety practice prevents equipment from being energized maintenance work

Lockout/tagout (LOTO)