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GLOSSARY / ACRONYMS
- 8D
- Eight Discipline (Problem Solving Tool)
- AIAG
- Automotive Industry Action Group
- APQP
- Advanced Product Quality Planning
- BOM
- Bill of Material
- C & E
- Cause & Effect (Diagram)
- CAR
- Corrective Action Report
- CI
- Continuous Improvement
- COSHH
- Control Of Substances Hazardous to Health
- Control Plan
- Documented description of the systems and processes required for controlling product.
- Cpk
- Capability Index
- CSR
- Customer Specific Requirements
- DFA
- Design For Assembly
- DFM
- Design For Manufacture
- DFMEA
- Design Failure Mode & Effects Analysis
- DOE
- Design of Experiments
- DSA
- Delivery Schedule Adherence
- ECN
- Engineering Change Notice
- Environmental aspects
- Activities, products & services that can interact with environment.
- Environmental impacts
- Change to the environment with a Significant Environmental Impact
- FMEA
- Failure Modes & Effect Analysis
- GRN
- Goods Received Note
- IAOB
- International Automotive Oversight Bureau
- IATF
- International Automotive Task Force
- ISO
- International Standards Organization
- KPI
- Key Performance Indicator
- LCL
- Lower Control Line
- LSL
- Lower Specification Limit
- Mean
- The calculated average
- Median
- The middle value, when the data is arranged in order of magnitude
- Mode
- The value which occurs most often
- MSA
- Measurement system Analysis
- Nonconformity
- Non-fulfilment of a requirement. This might trigger a 'CAR' or '8D'.
- NPI
- New Product Introduction
- OEE
- Overall Equipment Effectiveness
- PDCA
- Plan Do Check Act
- PFMEA
- Process Failure Modes & Effect Analysis
- PPAP
- Production Part Approval Process
- PPM
- Parts Per Million
- PSW
- Part Submission Warrant (Front Sheet for Part Approval Pack)
- QOS
- Quality Operating System (Continuous Improvement Tool)
- RFE
- Request for enquiry / estimate
- R @ R
- Run at Rate
- R & R
- Repeatability and Reproducibility
- RPN
- Risk Priority Number
- SC
- Special characteristic
- 6σ
- Six Sigma
- Special Processes
- Where the results of processes cannot be fully verified by subsequent inspection and testing of the product
- SPC
- Statistical Process Control
- SQA
- Supplier Quality Assurance
- STA
- Supplier Technical Assistance
- SYS
- Systems Yield Success
- TGW
- Things Gone Wrong
- UCL
- Upper Control Line
- USL
- Upper Specification Limit
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