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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 OptÎ?? ?Ê?É