Manufacturing
The process of changing raw or processed materials into products people can use.
Frontline Workers
All of the people, from
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Consumer Goods
Products designed for personal use
Suppliers
or vendors, are the companies that make and sell the parts, materials, and machines to the manufacturer used to make the product.
Subindustries
1. Chemicals (Soap, paint, ink, etc.),
2. Electrical Equipment & Appliances (Microwave ovens, refrigerators, washing machines, air purifiers, blow dryers toasters etc.),
3. Computers & Electronic Products (CD and DVD players, digital cameras, cell phones, TV studio equipment, lasers),
4. Food & Beverage
5. Furniture
6. Machinery Subindustry
7. Nonmetallic Minerals Subindustry
8. Petroleum and Coal Products Subindustry
9. Plastics and Rubbers
10. Primary & Fabricated Metals
11. Printing Subindustry
12. Textile, Textile Products, Apparel & Leather Subindustry
13. Transportation Equipment
14. Wood & Paper
High Performance Manufacturing
Combines a highly skilled and empowered workforce, advanced technology, and new ways of working to achieve superior levels of quality, customer satisfacion, and efficiency.
Production
All of the activities involved in the making, assembling, packaging, and distribution of manufactured goods.
Logistics
The movement of materials and products both within the plant, and into and out of the plant.
Inventory Control
The Process of keeping track of materials and products and where they are located in the plant.
Cross-training
Process of training someone to perform more than one job.
Skill Standards
the knowledge, skills, and performance needed for success in the workplace
Sub-Assembly
A part or component of a larger product that is assembled before being
Certification
The process of demonstrating that you are qualified to work in a certain field.
Accredited
Officially recognized as maintaining standards that qualify students for more education or for work in a certain profession.
on-the-job training (OJT)
The opportunity to learn relevant skills while working, or learning by doing.
Apprenticeship
training program that combines classroom instruction with actual work experience under the guidelines of a skilled worker.
Productivity
The measure of how efficiently goods are produced
Mass Production
the process of manufacturing huge numbers of the same product at a relatively low cost
Customization
the process of building products to meet the specific needs of individual customers or groups of customers
Tariff
a tax on imported goods.
OSHA
Occupational Safety and Health Administration
Collective Bargaining
negotioation process used by workers and employers to determine employment conditions
EPA
Environmental Protection Agency, regulations concerning earth, air, and water.
Quality
A product meets or exceeds the expectations and the needs of the customers
Lean Manufacturing
Eliminate all waste during the entire manufacturing process, from customer order to delivery
Waste
Anything that does not benefit the customer
Just In Time Manufacturing
The material or parts needed to make a product arrive at the time they are needed.
Cellular Manufacturing
Small numbers of production workers are grouped together to produce similar types of parts or products or to complete related stages in the production process.
Manufacturing Cells
Workers in a cell have a range of skills that enable them to produce a variety of related parts or production processes depending on the needs of the day
Agile Manufacturing
a system in which processes can be rapidly adapted to changing customer needs, new technologies, new opportunities, and unexpected events
Supply Chain Manufacturing
a sequence of suppliers and processes that result in providing the product to the final customer.
Automation
the automatic operation of machines and processes used to make products
CADD
Computer Aided Design & Drafting
CAM
Computer Aided Manufacturing
CIM
Computer-Integrated Manufacturing
Robotics
The field of engineering that involves the design and operation of robots to simulate human movement and to perform a range of manufaturing tasks, including dangerous, precision, and repetitve operations.
CNC
Computer Numerical Control
FMS
Flexible Manufacturing System, links manufacturing cells together, highly automated.
MEMS
Micro-electro-mechanical system [Show Less]