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| The ease of which a product can be made |
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| The process of defining all of the product's characteristics |
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| The process of establishing all the characteristics of the service, including physical, sensual, and psychological benefits |
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| The process of studying the practices of companies considered "best-in-class" and comparing your company's performance against theirs |
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| The process of disassembling a product to analyze it's design features |
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| Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) |
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| Involving suppliers in the early stages of product design |
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| A technique used to compute the amount of goods a company needs to sell to cover it's costs |
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| Costs a company incurs regardless of how much it produces |
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| Costs that vary directly with the amount of units produced |
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| Design For Manufacture (DFM) |
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| A series of guidelines to follow in order to produce a product easily and profitably |
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| A series of stages that products pass through in their lifetime, characterized by changing product demands over time |
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| An approach that brings together multifunction teams in the early phase of product design in order to simultaneously design the product and the process |
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| The concept of using components of old products in the production of new ones |
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| Processes used to produce a variety of products with different processing requirements in low volumes |
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| Processes used to produce one or few standardized products in high volume |
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| A type of process used to make a one-at-a-time product exactly to customer specifications |
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| A type of process used to produce a small quantity of products in groups or batches based on customer orders or specifications |
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| A type of process used to produce a large volume of a standardized product |
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| A type of process that operates continually to produce a high volume of a fully standardized product |
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| A technique used for evaluating a process in terms of the sequence of steps from inputs to outputs with the goal of improving its design |
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| A chart showing the sequence of steps in producing the product or service |
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| Longest task in the process |
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| Produces standard products and services for immediate sale or delivery |
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| Assemble-to-order Strategy |
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| Produces standard components that can be combined to customer specifications |
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| Produces products to customer specifications after an order has been received |
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| Process Performance Metrics |
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| Measurements of different process characteristics that tell how a process is performing |
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| Average amount of time it takes a product to move through the system |
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| Ratio of throughput time to value-added time |
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| Ratio of time a resource is used to time it is available for use |
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| Ratio of actual output to standard output |
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| Information Technology (IT) |
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| Technology that enables storage, processing, and communication of information within and between firms |
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| Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) |
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| Large software programs used for planning and coordinating all resources throughout the entire enterprise |
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| Global Positioning Systems (GPS) |
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| A type of wireless technology that uses satellite transmission to communicate exact locations |
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| Radio Frequency Identification (REID) |
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| A wireless technology that uses memory chips equipped with radio antennas attached to objects used to transmit streams of data |
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| Using Machinery to perform work without human operators |
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| Flexible Manufacturing Systems (FMS) |
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| A type of automated system that combines the flexibility of intermittent operations with the efficiency of continuous operations |
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| Numerically Controlled (NC) Machine |
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| A machine controlled by a computer that can perform a variety of tasks |
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| Computer-aided Design (CAD) |
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| A system that uses computer graphics to design new products |
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| Computer-integrated Manufacturing (CIM) |
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| The integration of product design, process planning, and manufacturing using an integrated computer system |
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| A grouping a physical, sensual, and psychological benefits that are purchased together as part of the service |
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