| AAPCO | American Association of Pest Control Officials (FIFRA) |
| ABC | Activity Based Costing |
| ABD | All But Dissertation |
| ACS | American Chemical Society |
| ADP | Automated Dumb Process |
| ADQ | Audit of Data Quality |
| AGV | Automatic Guided Vehicle |
| AIM | Agile Intelligent Manufacturing |
| AMC | Army Materiel Command |
| AMH | Automated Material Handling |
| ANOVA | Analysis Of Variance |
| ANPRM | Advanced Notice of Proposed Rule Making |
| ANSI | American National Standards Institute |
| AOAC | Association of Official Analytical Chemists |
| AOQL | Average Outgoing Quality Level |
| APICS | American Production And Inventory Control Society |
| APT | Automatic Programmed Tools |
| AQCR | Air Quality Control Region |
| AQL | Acceptable Quality Level |
| ARAR | Applicable or Relevant and Appropriate Standards, Limitations, Criteria, and requirements |
| AS/RS | Automated Storage And Retrieval System |
| ASCII | American Standard Code For Information Interchange |
| ASQ | American Society For Quality (ASQC Prior To 1997) |
| ASQC | American Society For Quality Control (Name Changed To ASQ In 1997) |
| ASTM | American Society for Testing and Materials |
| ATP | Available To Promise |
| BACT | Best Available Control Technology |
| BDAT | Best Demonstrated Available Technology |
| BFCE | Better, Faster, Cheaper, Easier |
| BM | Benchmarking (1/2 Credit If You Guessed A Famous Bodily Function) |
| BMOC | Big Man On Campus |
| BOM | Bill Of Materials |
| BPO | Business Process Outsourcing |
| BPR | Business Process Re-Engineering |
| C&E | Cause And Effect |
| CA | Cooperative Agreement |
| CAA | Clean Air Act |
| CAD | Computer Aided Design |
| CAE | Computer Aided Engineering |
| CAIR | Comprehensive Assessment Information Rule |
| CAIT | Computer Aided Inspection And Test |
| CAM | Computer Aided Manufacturing |
| CAPP | Computer Aided Process Planning |
| CAR | Corrective Action Request |
| CAS | Chemical Abstract Service |
| CASE | Computer Aided Systems Engineering |
| CAT | Computer Aided Testing |
| CBI | Compliance Bio-monitoring Inspection |
| CCR | Capacity Constrained Resource |
| CEI | Compliance Evaluation Inspection |
| CEO | Chief Executive Officer |
| CEPP | Chemical Emergency Preparedness Program |
| CERCLA | Comprehensive Environmental Responsibility, Compensation and Liability Act |
| CFO | Chief Financial Officer |
| CFPIM | Certified In Production And Inventory Management At Fellow Level |
| CFR | Code of Federal Regulations |
| CGI | Comprehensive Ground Water Inspection |
| CGME | Comprehensive Ground-Water Monitoring Evaluation |
| CIB | Computer Integrated Business |
| CIF | Cost, Insurance, And Freight |
| CIM | Computer Integrated Manufacturing |
| CIO | Chief Information Officer |
| CIP | Carriage And Insurance Paid To (Named Destination) |
| CIS | Compliance Inspection Strategy |
| CKO | Chief Knowledge Officer |
| CLO | Chief Learning Officer |
| CLP | Contract Laboratory Program |
| CLSP | Capacitated Lot Sizing Problem |
| CME | Construction Management Evaluation |
| CMM | Capability Maturity Model |
| CMM | Coordinate Measuring Machine |
| CNC | Computer Numerically Controlled |
| COB | Close Of Business |
| COE | U. S. Army Corps of Engineers |
| COQ | Cost Of Quality |
| CPA | Certified Public Accountant |
| CPA | Certified Public Accountant |
| CPI | Continuous Process Improvement |
| CPIM | Certified In Production And Inventory Management |
| CPK | A Worst One-Tailed Process Capability Index |
| CPM | Critical Path Method |
| CPM | Process Capability Measure Similar To Cpk But With Taguchi Methods Incorporated |
| CPU | Central Processing Unit |
| CQE | Certified Quality Engineer |
| CQI | Continuous Quality Improvement |
| CQT | Certified Quality Technician |
| CR | Critical Ratio |
| CRM | Certified Reference Material |
| CRP | Capacity Requirements Planning |
| CRT | Cathode Ray Tube |
| CSI | Compliance Sampling Inspection |
| CSO | Combined Sewer Overflow |
| CSP | Continuous Sampling Plan |
| CV | Coefficient Variation |
| CWA | Clean Water Act |
| CWQC | Company Wide Quality Control |
| CWQI | Company-Wide Quality Improvement |
| D&R | Demolition and Renovation |
| DDLT | Demand During Lead Time |
| DEA | Data Envelopment Analysis (1/2 Credit For Drug Enforcement Agency) |
| DFA | Design For Assembly |
| DFD | Data-Flow Diagrams |
| DFM | Design For Manufacturability |
| DFT | Demand Flow Technology |
| DFX | Design For X (X Being The Goal Or Attribute Of Your Choice) |
| DIC | Document Identifier Code |
| DL | Detection Limit |
| DMAIC | Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, And Control. |
| DMR-QA | Discharge Monitoring Report - QA Program |
| DNC | Direct Numerically Controlled |
| DOA | Dead On Arrival |
| DOE | Design Of Experiments |
| DPO | Deputy Project Officer |
| DQA | Data Quality Assessment |
| DQO | Data Quality Objectives |
| DRP | Distribution Requirements Planning |
| DSS | Decision Support System |
| DTF | Demand Time Fence |
| DU | Decision Unit |
| EAP | Employee Assistance Program |
| ECN | Engineering Change Notice |
| ECO | Engineering Change Order |
| ECR | Engineering Change Request |
| ECR | Error Cause Removal |
| EDCA | Environmental Data Collection Activity |
| EDD | Earliest Due Date First |
| EDDLT | Expected Demand During Lead Time |
| EDI | Electronic Data Interchange |
| EDL | Estimated Detection Level |
| EEO | Equal Employment Opportunity |
| EFQM | European Foundation For Quality Management |
| EHMW | Extra High Molecular Weight |
| EI | Employee Involvement |
| EIS | Executive Information System |
| ELC | Employee Learning Center |
| EMAP | Environmental Monitoring Assessment Program |
| EMPC | Estimated Maximum (Protocol) Concentration |
| EMS | Enforcement Management System |
| EOH | Ending On-Hand Inventory |
| EOQ | Economic Order Quantity |
| EPLS | Economic Production Lot Size |
| EQA | European Quality Award |
| ERAMS | Environmental Radiation Ambient Monitoring System |
| ERC | Emergency Response Contractor |
| ERCS | Emergency Response Cleanup Service |
| ERT | Emergency Response Team |
| ESAT | Environmental Service Assistant Team |
| ESC | Executive Steering Committee |
| ESP | Electrostatic Precipitator |
| FAS | Final Assembly Schedule |
| FCFS | First Come First Serve |
| FCS | Finite Capacity Scheduling |
| FDA | Food and Drug Administration |
| FEW | Federal Employed Women |
| FIFO | First In First Out |
| FIFRA | Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act |
| FISMP | Field Inspection with Sampling |
| FIT | Field Investigation Team |
| FMBA | Financial Management & Business Analysis |
| FMC | Flexible Machining Center |
| FMEA | Failure Mode Effects Analysis |
| FMECA | Failure Mode Effect And Criticality Analysis (Same As FMEA) |
| FMS | Flexible Manufacturing System |
| FOB | Free On Board |
| FOE | Factory Overall Efficiency |
| FPO | Firm Planned Order |
| FR | Food Register |
| FRDS | Federal Reporting Data System |
| FS | Feasibility Study |
| FTA | Fault Tree Analysis |
| FTZ | Free Trade Zone |
| GAAP | Generally Accepted Accounting Practices |
| GIT | Global Information Technology |
| GITM | Global Information Technology Management |
| GLP | Good Laboratory Practice |
| GT | Group Technology |
| HACCP | Hazard Analysis And Critical Control Points |
| HALT | HighlyAccelerated Life Testing |
| HDPE | High Density Polyethylene |
| HLL | High Level Language |
| HMI | Human-Machine Interface (Also Used As MMI = Man-Machine Int.) |
| HOQ | House Of Quality |
| HRM | Human Resources Management |
| HRS | Hazard Ranking System |
| HWDMS | Hazardous Waste Data Management System |
| I&M | Inspection and Maintenance |
| I/A | Innovative/Alternative (Technology) |
| ICP | Inductivity Coupled Atomic Emission Plasma Spectrometry |
| ICR | Information Collection Request |
| IFB | Invitation for Bidders |
| IGES | Initial Graphics Exchange Specification, A Data Interchange Standard For CAD/CAM Systems |
| IIE | Institute Of Industrial Engineers |
| IMHO | In My Humble Opinion |
| IMO | In My Opinion |
| IMR | Immediate Removal |
| IMS | Integrated Management Services |
| IMS | Intelligent Manufacturing Systems |
| IMVS | Inter-laboratory Method Validation Study |
| IRM | Initial Remedial Measure |
| IRR | Internal Rate Of Return |
| ISO | International Standards Organization |
| ISS | Interim Status Survey |
| IU | Industrial User |
| JIT | Just In Time |
| JUSE | Union Of Japanese Scientists And Engineers |
| KM | Knowledge Management |
| L4L | Lot For Lot |
| LAER | Lowest Achievable Emissions Rate |
| LAN | Local Area Network |
| LBO | Leveraged Buy Out |
| LCL | Less Than Car Load |
| LCL | Lower Control Limit |
| LIFO | Last In First Out |
| LIMIT | Lot size Inventory Management Interpolation Technique |
| LOB | Line Of Balance |
| LOEC | Lowest Observed Effect Concentration |
| LOIS | Loss of Interim Status |
| LOQ | Limit of Qualification |
| LSL | Lower Specification Limit |
| LT | Lead Time |
| LTL | Less Than Truck Load |
| LTPD | Lot Tolerance Percent Defective |
| MAD | Mean Absolute Deviation |
| MANOVA | Multivariate Analysis Of Variance |
| MAP | Manufacturing Automation Protocol |
| MAPE | Mean Absolute Percentage Error |
| MBF | Management By Fear (Not MBO) |
| MBNQA | Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award |
| MBO | Management By Objective |
| MBWA | Management By Walking Around |
| MBWA | Management By Wandering Around |
| MCL | Maximum Contaminant Level |
| MCLG | Maximum Contaminant Level Goals |
| MCP | Municipal Compliance Plan |
| MDL | Method Detection Limit |
| MDR | Master Data Record |
| MDS | Material Dominated Scheduling |
| MEOST | Multiple Environment Overstress Tests |
| MFO | Material Flow Operator |
| MI | Manufacturing Instruction |
| MIL | SPEC Military Specification |
| MIS | Management Information Systems |
| MIT | Mechanical Integrity Test |
| MNC | Multinational Corporation |
| MNE | Multinational Enterprise |
| MPRSA | Marine Protection, Research and Sanctuaries Act |
| MPS | Master Production Schedule |
| MRB | Material Review Board |
| MRO | Maintenance Repair And Operating Supplies |
| MRP | Material Requirements Planning |
| MRP II | Manufacturing Resource Planning |
| MRP III | Money Resource Planning |
| MSE | Mean Square Error |
| MSE | Mean Square Error |
| MSIS | Model State Information System |
| MSR | Management Systems Review |
| MTBF | Mean Time Before Failure |
| MTL | Manufacturing Team Leader |
| MTM | Motion-Time Methods |
| MTR | Minimum Technology Requirements |
| NAAQS | National Ambient Air Quality Standards |
| NADB | National Aerometric Data Bank |
| NAMS | National Air Monitoring Stations |
| NBAR | Non-binding Preliminary Allocation of Responsibility |
| NC | Numerically Controlled |
| NCLAN | National Crop Loss Assessment Network |
| NCP | National Contingency Plan |
| NDHAP | National Pesticide Hazard Assessment Program |
| NEDS | National Emissions Data Base |
| NEIC | National Enforcement Investigations Center (OECM, Denver) |
| NESHAP | National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants |
| NHANES | National Health and Nutrition Examination Study |
| NIH | Not Invented Here |
| NIST | National Institute of Standards and Technology |
| NIST | National Institute Of Standards And Technology |
| NLT | Not Later Than |
| NMJ | Not My Job |
| NMP | National Municipal Policy |
| NOAC | Next Operation As Customer |
| NOD | Notice of Deficiency |
| NOEC | No-Observed Effect Concentration |
| NOISH | National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health |
| NOPES | Non-Occupational Pesticide Exposure Study |
| NPAP | National Performance Audit Program |
| NPDES | National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System |
| NPDWR | National Primary Drinking Water Regulations |
| NPL | National Priority List |
| NPO | National Program Office |
| NPRM | Notice of Proposed Rule Making |
| NPS | New Production System |
| NPV | Net Present Value |
| NRC | National Resource Center |
| NSN | National Stock Number |
| NSPS | New Source Performance Standards |
| NSR | New Source Review |
| NTED | No Touch Exchange Of Die |
| NTIS | National Technical Information Service |
| O&M | Operation and Management |
| OC | Operating Characteristic (Curves) |
| OCD | Organizational Change And Development |
| OCR | Optical Characture Recognition |
