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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 | 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 | 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 | 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. |
| Production Process | The activities, equipment, and resources needed to manufacture a product. |
| Production | The action of making or manufacturing from components or raw materials |
| Purchasing | buying the resources needed |
| Purchase Order | The form that a business fills out to order goods; may be the same as a purchase agreement or purchase contract. |
| Purchasing Process | A series of sequential steps taken by purchasing specialists to buy goods and services for a business. |
| Purchasing | The buying of goods and services for a business. |
| Pure Research | Research done without a specific product in mind with the goal of discovering new solutions to problems. |
| Risk | The possibility of loss (failure) or gain (success). |
| Safety | Freedom from danger, risk, or injury. |
| Schedule | A time plan for completing activities. It matches people with resources to make sure activities are finished on time. |
| Standard | A specific measurement against which an activity or result is judged. |
