Business English Week4
Terms
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- time required, including machine and assembly-line setup, to design and engineer mass-production products
- lead time
- a decision-making condition in which all factors and outcomes are known to the decision maker
- certainity
- the testing of a product design by engineers, after they have added the needed technical specifications
- product engineering
- any characteristic of a material that can be changed by conditioning
- mechanical property
- sketches, models, and proposed plans for manufacturing a product
- product design
- set of operations needed to change raw materials into finished products (casting, forming, seperating, assembly, conditioning, finishing)
- material processing
- all activities associated with purchasing facilities, materials, equipment, and service in teh required quantity and at proper times so as to meet marketing goals at the lowest cost
- procurement
- a means of accessing the quality of an entire batch based on the inspection of a sample from that branch
- acceptance sampling
- the process of planning, organizing, and controlling operations to reach stated objectives with efficiency and effectiveness
- operations management
- the basis input-output system consisting of input, transformations, output, and feedback components designed and managed to transform various inputs into goods and/or services
- operating system
- an analysis of costs, prices, and profits which shows how alternative prices affect a firm's profit position
- break-even analysis
- purchase price plus transportation and other costs of delivery
- acquisition cost
- the use of light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation (LASER) for fusing edges
- laser beam welding
- the regulation of teh flow of materials and parts through the processing and assembly areas
- production control
- the physical layout of an operation done in such a way within a facility that the location of the workstations optimizes the flow of work
- facility layout
- a type of bonding in which the edges of that parts to be joined are melted, allowing the molten material to flow between them
- fusion bonding
- running many different sets of input and process variables through the model of a system or process in order to observe resulting outcomes
- simulation
- the process of balancing the costs associated with various inventory levels so as to minimize total costs
- inventory control
- the design of machines, workstations, and processes such as to maximize the productibity of the worker-machine relationship
- human engineering (ergonomics)
- a production control system by which quality is matintained through inspections, machine emprovements, etc.
- quality control