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| Accident | An unexpected happening that may result in injury, loss, or damage |
| Applied Research | Marketing research that studies existing products to develop design improvements or new product uses. |
| Benchmarks | The best practices among competitors. |
| Compliance | Fulfilling the requirements of the law. |
| Continuous Process Improvement (CPI) | A way to make sure manufacturing processes are completed as effectively as possible. It increases the quality of work by reducing errors, inefficiencies, and waste. Rather than waiting for a problem to occur, processes are continuously reviewed with the goal of finding ways to improve them. |
| Cost of Goods/Services Sold | It includes all the costs directly involved in producing a product or delivering a service |
| Custom Manufacturing | Building a specific and unique product to meet the needs of one customer. |
| Dispatching | Issuing orders for production to begin |
| Extraction and Cultivation | A form of production in which products are obtained from nature or grown using natural resources. |
| Follow-Up | Make sure products meet standard and are completed according to plan |
| Hazard | Potential events or situations that can cause injury or harm to people, property, or the environment |
| Just-In-Time | A logistics process in which goods arrive when needed for production, use or sale rather than sitting in storage |
| Logistics | Managing the acquisition, movement, and storage of supplies, materials, and finished products in a business. |
| Manufacturing | Combining raw materials and processed goods into finished products. |
| Mass Production | An assembly process that makes a large number of identical products using a continuous efficient procedure. |
| Materials Processing | Changing the form of raw materials so they can be consumed or used to make other products. |
| Operational Plan | Identifies how work will be done, who will do it, and what resources will be needed. |
| OSHA | Occupational Safe and Health Act-A federal government agency that writes and enforces safety and health standards for businesses |
| Planning | Determining how products will be produced and how much of the product to produce. |
| Processing | Changing and improving the form of another product. |
