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| show | Unique, large, one-time job requiring special activities to accomplish a specific objective in a limited time frame
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| show | For a project: keeping the project within schedule, budget, and quality guidelines
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| Matrix Organization | show 🗑
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| show | The person responsible for planning, scheduling, executing, and controlling a project from inception to completion, meeting the project's requirements and ensuring completion on time, within budget, and to the required quality standards.
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| show | Analyzing the project into work packages and activities, estimating resources needed and durations, scheduling
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| show | A hierarchical listing of what must be done during a project
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| Project Scheduling | show 🗑
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| PERT | show 🗑
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| CPM | show 🗑
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| Precedence Network | show 🗑
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| Activity on arrow (AOA) | show 🗑
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| show | Network in which nodes designate activities
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| Path | show 🗑
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| show | The longest path from start to end; determines the expected project duration
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| show | Activities on the critical path
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| Path Slack Time | show 🗑
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| show | Durations that are fairly certain
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| Probabilistic Durations | show 🗑
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| show | PERT/CPM when the activity durations are variable and are determined using three estimates: optimistic, most likely and pessimistic
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| show | The length of time under the best conditions
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| Pessimistic Duration | show 🗑
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| Most likely duration | show 🗑
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| show | A family of continuous positive distributions used to describe the inherent variability in activity durations
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| Project Execution | show 🗑
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| show | Comparing a project's progress against plans and taking corrective action if necessary
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| show | A visual aid for loading, scheduling and control purposes
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| Housekeeping | show 🗑
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| show | Keeping equipment in good operating condition and replacing parts that have a tendency to fail before they actually do fail
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| Kanban | show 🗑
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| Pull system | show 🗑
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| Push system | show 🗑
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| show | A set of lights used at each workstation to signal problems or slowdowns
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| Jidoka | show 🗑
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| show | Intelligent automation: if an abnormal situation arises, the machine automatically stops, preventing production of defective products
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| show | Any mechanism that helps an equipment operator avoid mistakes. Its purpose is to eliminate product defects by preventing, correcting, or drawing attention to human errors as they occur
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| show | The maximum time allowed at each workstation to complete its set of tasks on a unit. Also called cycle time
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| Lean Production | show 🗑
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| show | Production system in which processing and movement of parts/modules/work-in-process occur just as they are needed, usually in small batches
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| show | Rewarding workers who undergo training to increase their skills/knowledge
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| show | Compensation based on amount of output an employee products
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| show | Compensation based on length of time an employee has worked
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| show | Technique for estimating the proportion of time that a worker spends on each activity or is idle
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| show | Published data based on extensive research on element times
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| show | Development of a standard time based on observations of one worker taken over a number of cycles
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| Standard Time | show 🗑
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| Work Measurement | show 🗑
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| Ergonomics | show 🗑
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| show | A chart that shows the elementary motions performed by each hand, side by side over time
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| show | Use of motion pictures and slow motion to study motions that otherwise would be too rapid to analyze
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| show | Guidelines for designing motion-efficient work procedures
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| show | Systematic study of the human motions used to perform an operation or task
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| show | Used to determine portions of a work cycle during which an operator and equipment are busy or idle
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| Process chart | show 🗑
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| show | Breaks down the job into a sequence of tasks and elements and improves it
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| show | Groups who perform the same function and are empowered to make certain decision and changes in their work
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| Job enrichment | show 🗑
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| Job rotation | show 🗑
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| show | Giving a worker a larger portion of the total task
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| Specialization | show 🗑
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| show | Specifying the content and method of a job
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| Percentage Idle Time | show 🗑
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| show | A diagram that shows the tasks and their precedence requirements
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| show | The maximum time allowed at each workstation to complete its set of tasks on a unit
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| Line balancing | show 🗑
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| show | Grouping items with similar design or manufacturing characteristics into part families
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| show | Layout in which different machines are arranged in a cell that can process times that have similar processing requirements
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| show | Arranges production resources together according to similarity of function
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| show | Arranges production resources linearly according to the progressive steps by which a product is made
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| show | Shows the operations and movement of material through the operations
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| show | A system for linking a broad range of manufacturing and other activities through an integrating computer system
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| show | A group of machining centres controlled by a computer, with automatic material handling and robots or other automated equipment
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| show | A machine consisting of a mechanical arm, a power supply, and a controller
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| show | Machines that perform operations by following mathematical processing instructions
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| Automation | show 🗑
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| Continous Process | show 🗑
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| Assembly line | show 🗑
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| show | A sequence of machines/workstations that perform operations on a part/product
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| show | A type of process used when higher quantities of more standardized goods or services are needed
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| Batch process | show 🗑
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| show | A process type used when a low quantity of high-variety customized goods or services is needed
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| Make or Buy | show 🗑
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| show | Determining the form and function of how goods or services are produced
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| show | A structured approach that integrates the voice of the customer into product design
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| Design for Assembly (DFA) | show 🗑
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| show | Takes into account the organization's manufacturing capabilities when designing a product
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| Computer Aided Design (CAD) | show 🗑
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| Concurrent Engineering | show 🗑
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| show | Recovering materials for future use
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| show | Design so that used products can be easily taken apart
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| Remanufacturing | show 🗑
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| Product Liability | show 🗑
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| show | Design that can function over a broad range of conditions
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| Failure | show 🗑
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| show | The ability of a product, part, or system to perform its intended function under normal conditions
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| Mass Customization | show 🗑
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| Delayed Differentiation | show 🗑
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| Modular Design | show 🗑
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| show | Extent to which there is absence of variety in a part or product
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| Life Cycle | show 🗑
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| Research and development (R&D) | show 🗑
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| Reverse engineering | show 🗑
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| Product Design | show 🗑
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| Productivity | show 🗑
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| Outsourcing | show 🗑
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| Time-Based competition | show 🗑
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| show | The approach that is used to guide the operations function
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| Action plan | show 🗑
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| Tactics | show 🗑
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| show | Shared beliefs of the organization's stakeholders
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| show | Where the organization desires to be in the future
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| Mission | show 🗑
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| Competitive priorities | show 🗑
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| Order winners | show 🗑
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| show | Purchasing criteria that customers perceive as minimum standards of acceptability to be considered for purchase
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| show | The major elements influencing a purchase: price, quality, variety, and timeliness
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| show | The managerial process that determines a strategy from eh organization
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| Strategy | show 🗑
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| Competitiveness | show 🗑
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| Supply Chain | show 🗑
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| E-Commerce | show 🗑
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| Lean Production | show 🗑
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| Total Quality Management | show 🗑
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| show | System in which lower-skilled workers used specialized machinery to produce high volumes of standardized goods
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| Interchangeable parts | show 🗑
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| Division of labour | show 🗑
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| Craft Production | show 🗑
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| show | A few factors account for a high percentage of results achieved (80/20)
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| show | A set of interrelated parts that must work together
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| show | An abstraction of reality; a simplified representation of something
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| show | The time between ordering a good or service and receiving it
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| show | The difference between he cost of inputs and the value or price of outputs
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| Efficiency | show 🗑
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| Effectiveness | show 🗑
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| show | A series of linked actions, changes or functions bringing about a result
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| Operations management | show 🗑
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| show | The ability of a product, part, or system to perform its intended function under a prescribed set of conditions. (1. when activated 2. for a given length of time)
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| Overdesign | show 🗑
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| show | Reduce number of components
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| show | Providing backup components
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| Mean time to failure (MTTF) | show 🗑
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| show | Average time from the up time after a repair following a failure to the next failure
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| Availability | show 🗑
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| show | A graph that reflects the phenomenon that the time required to perform a task decreases with increasing repetitions
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| show | Time per unit decreases as the number of units produced increases
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| show | Uses statistical techniques & sampling to monitor & test the quality of goods & services
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| show | Determines to accept or reject a product
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| Statistical process control | show 🗑
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| Inspection | show 🗑
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| Random variation | show 🗑
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| show | A variation whose source can be identified
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| show | Monitors process output to distinguish between random and assignable variation. A time offered plot of sample statistics obtained from an ongoing process. Upper and lower control limits define the range of acceptable variation.
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| Control Limits | show 🗑
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| Type I Error | show 🗑
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| Type II error | show 🗑
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| Design Specifications | show 🗑
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| show | Natural variability in a process
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| show | Process variability relative to specification
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