Glossary
Steel Fabrication Management terms and definitions
A
Activity-Based Costing (ABC)
Advanced Planning & Scheduling (APS)
Agile Manufacturing
AISC Certification
Andon
Assembly
Assembly drawing
Automatic nesting
AWS D1.1
Active work order
B
Balanced Scorecard
Batch Size Reduction
Bottleneck Analysis
Business Continuity Plan (BCP)
C
Continuous Improvement (Kaizen)
Cost-to-Completion
Critical Path Method (CPM)
Cutting Plan Optimization
D
Demand Forecasting
Digital Thread
Digital Weld Map
Dispatching Rule (Sequencing)
Drum-Buffer-Rope (DBR)
E
Earned Value Management (EVM)
Economic Order Quantity (EOQ)
Electronic Batch Record
Engineering Change Order (ECO)
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
Equipment Capacity Plan
F
Factory Acceptance Test (FAT)
Failure Mode & Effects Analysis (FMEA)
Field Bolt List
Fixed Asset Turnover
Fixed-Cost Absorption
Flow Manufacturing
G
Galvanizing Lead Time
Gemba Walk
Gross Margin Return on Investment (GMROI)
Gross Profit per Ton
Group Technology (GT)
h
Hardness Testing Program
Heat Number Traceability
Heijunka (Production Leveling)
Histogram Analysis
Hole Alignment Report
Hoshin Kanri
Human-Machine Interface (HMI)
i
In-Shop Logistics
Index of Structural Drawings
Inspection Test Record (ITR)
Integrated Project Delivery (IPD)
Inventory Accuracy Rate
Inventory Turnover
Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT)
ISO 9001
j
Jidoka (Autonomation)
Job Cost Variance
Just-in-Sequence (JIS) Delivery
Just-In-Time (JIT)
Job Shop Scheduling
k
l
Labor Efficiency Variance
Life Cycle Costing (LCC)
Line Balancing
Lot Control
m
Machine Downtime Rate
Machine Planning
Material Certificate (MTC)
Material Requirements Planning (MRP)
Manufacturing Execution System (MES)
Mill Test Report (MTR)
Minimum Viable Product (MVP)
Modular Assembly
n
Net Present Value (NPV)
Nested Job Costing
Nesting Efficiency
No-Load Time
Numerical Control Programming (NCP)
o
Off-Site Fabrication
On-Time Delivery Rate
Operational Excellence
Operator Dashboard
Order Fulfillment Cycle Time
Order Variance
Outsource Manufacturing
Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE)
p
Paint Cure Cycle
Pareto Analysis
Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA)
Pre-Assembly
Procedure Qualification Record (PQR)
Production Planning
Production Release Authorization
Procurement Spend Analysis
Production Part Approval Process (PPAP)
q
Quality Assurance (QA)
Quality Gate
Quality Management System (QMS)
Quick-Change Fixture
Quick Response Manufacturing (QRM)
Queue Management System
Queue Time
r
Return on Invested Capital (ROIC)
Rework Cost
Risk Management Plan
Rolling Forecast
Root Cause Analysis (RCA)
Run Time
Run Time per Ton
s
Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP)
Scrap Rate
Six Sigma
Standard Operating Procedure (SOP)
Standard Work
Supply Chain
Supply Chain Resilience
t
Takt Time
Theory of Constraints (TOC)
Throughput Dollar-Days/Inventory Dollar-Days (TDD/IDD)
Tonnage Scheduled
Total Productive Maintenance (TPM)
Toyota Production System (TPS)
Traceability Matrix
U
Utilization Rate
User Story Mapping
Unified Communications
Unified Production Model
Unplanned Downtime
Up-Time Ratio
V
Value-Added Activity
Value Stream Mapping (VSM)
Vendor Compliance Scorecard
Vendor-Managed Inventory (VMI)
Visual Management
Visual Weld Map
W
Welding Procedure Specification (WPS)
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
Work-In-Queue
Workflow Automation
Workforce Planning
X
X-Efficient Production
X-Matrix (Hoshin Planning)
XML Bill of Materials (XBOM)
XML Fabrication Data Exchange
Y
Yard Capacity
Yard Management System
Yield Rate
Yokoten (Horizontal Sharing)
Z
Zero-Defect Manufacturing
Zero-Waste Cut Plan
Zone Control