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Value-stream mapping, also known as material- and information-flow mapping, [ 1] is a lean [ 2] -management method for analyzing the current state and designing a future state for the series of events that take a product or service from the beginning of the specific process until it reaches the customer. A value stream map is a visual [ 2] tool ...
Manufacturing readiness level. The manufacturing readiness level ( MRL) is a measure to assess the maturity of manufacturing readiness, similar to how technology readiness levels (TRL) are used for technology readiness. They can be used in general industry assessments, [ 1] or for more specific application in assessing capabilities of possible ...
Production Part Approval Process (PPAP) is used in the Aerospace or automotive supply chain for establishing confidence in suppliers and their production processes. Actual measurements are taken from the parts produced and are used to complete the various test sheets of PPAP. "All customer engineering design record and specification ...
A master production schedule ( MPS) is a plan for individual commodities to be produced in each time period such as production, staffing, inventory, etc. [ 1] It is usually linked to manufacturing where the plan indicates when and how much of each product will be demanded. [ 2] This plan quantifies significant processes, parts, and other ...
Business process mapping takes a specific objective and helps to measure and compare that objective alongside the entire organization's objectives to make sure that all processes are aligned with the company's values and capabilities. International Organization for Standardization or ISO 9001 : 2015 encourages a process approach to quality ...
Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) is a standard for business process modeling that provides a graphical notation for specifying business processes in a Business Process Diagram (BPD), [ 3] based on a flowcharting technique very similar to activity diagrams from Unified Modeling Language (UML). [ 4] The objective of BPMN is to support ...
Manufacturing operations management ( MOM) is a collection of systems for managing end-to-end manufacturing processes with a view to optimizing efficiency. [ 1] There are many types of MOM software, including for production management, performance analysis, quality and compliance, and human machine interface (HMI).
Process map. Process map is a global-system process model that is used to outline the processes that make up the business system and how they interact with each other. Process map shows the processes as objects, which means it is a static and non-algorithmic view of the processes. It should be differentiated from a detailed process model, which ...