Word or Phrase
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Definition
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Definition Provided By:
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| API (American Petroleum Institute) |
Organization that set standards and lobbies for the
oil exploration and refining industry
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PQA
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Absenteeism
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When someone is not at their assigned
work station ready for work at their regularly scheduled work period.
This includes all reasons, as well as excused time off. |
PQA
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| Accident |
An undesired event that someone didn't adequately
plan for, had adverse consequences for 1 or more stakeholders, but was
100% predictable and preventable.
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PQA
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Accountability
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The degree to which someone is held
responsible for the processes used, and/or the results achieved. |
PQA
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| Accounts Receivable |
Money you are owed by somebody who won't pay until
they're good & ready
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PQA |
| Acquisition |
Something that you buy, or obtain responsibility for
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PQA |
| Advertising |
A tool used to communicate or distribute your message
to one or more people or organizations
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PQA
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| Advice |
Someone elses opinion about your past actions (or
inactions), or future decisions and opportunities. Some feel the
greatest vice of all is advice.
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PQA
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| Airline |
Organizations that make you plan well in advance (or
suffer the financial consequences), make reservations and iron-clad
commitments, wait in line, cram into a thin-walled aluminum tube with
many other people, take substantial risks, then wait some more; all so
you can get where you need to go more quickly.
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PQA
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| Analysis |
Breaking a complex problem into many simple problems
so that you can better understand how everything works and interacts.
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PQA
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| Anecdote |
A story that helps illustrate your point and convince
other people you are right.
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PQA
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| Audit |
An independent investigation of the status of a
specific system, as compared to some defined standard or set of
expectations, and reporting the results in a unbiased, comprehensive,
and documented manner.
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PQA
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| Automotive |
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| Award |
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| Benchmarking |
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| Benefit |
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| Beverage |
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| Brainstorming |
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| Budget |
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| Business |
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| Business Process Redesign |
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| CAD/CAM |
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| CIM (Computer Integrated Manufacturing) |
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| Canadian |
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| Cartoon |
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| Case Studies/History |
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| Change management |
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| Charitable |
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| Client |
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| Co-generation |
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| Collection |
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| Commitment |
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| Communication |
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| Community |
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| Competitor |
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| Computer |
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| Computerization |
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| Conference |
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| Conservation |
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| Consultant |
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| Control |
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| Copyright |
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| Cost |
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| Cost Estimating |
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| County |
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| Creativity |
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| Customer |
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| Customer/Supplier |
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| Cutback |
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| DOE (Design of Experiments) |
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| Data |
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| Database |
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| Defect |
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Defense
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| Deming |
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| Design |
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| Detection |
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| Development |
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| Die Casting |
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| EEC (European Economic Community) |
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| Earning |
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| Economic |
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| Economy |
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| Education |
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| Electroplating |
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| Employee |
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| Energy |
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| Engineering |
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| Environment |
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| Equipment |
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| Ergonomic |
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| Error |
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| Estimating |
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| Ethics |
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| Europe |
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| Evaluation |
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| Example |
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| Excellence |
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| Experiment |
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| Expert System |
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| FMEA (Failure Mode Effect Analysis) |
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| FMEA-D |
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| FMEA-P |
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| Fabricate |
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| Fact |
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| Federal |
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| Financial |
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| Firmware |
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| Flow Chart |
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| Food |
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| Forgery |
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| Free Trade |
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| Fringe Benefit |
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| General Motors (GM) |
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| Generation |
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| Government |
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| Graphic |
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| Growth |
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| Hardware |
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| Health Care |
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| History |
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| Human Resource |
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| ISO-14000 |
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| ISO-9000 |
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| Icebreaker |
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| Incentive |
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| Industrial |
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| Inflation |
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| Innovation |
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| Inspection |
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| Intelligence |
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| International |
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| Internet |
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| Invention |
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| Inventory |
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| Involvement |
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| JIT (Just-In-Time) |
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| Japan |
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| Japanese |
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| Job Security |
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| Job Shop |
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Kaikaku
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A team of Managers and experts
assigned the responsibility and authority to manage and achieve the
realization of all phases of a major change in a business. This
would be a major paradigm shift, stopping, or starting a significant
business unit, product, or operation of major importance.
Information and knowledge are shared in real time during the 10 to
15-day intensive sessions. This team holds absolute power in
decision making over all aspects of the organization that effect or
are affected by the project. This methodology is mostly used for the
full restructuringof a Company in an extreme "emergency" context. The
level of complexity and innovation is therefore very important. This
will ensure a global vision, commitment, and global buy-in by the
principal participants.
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| Knowledge |
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| Layoff |
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| Leadership |
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| Legal |
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| Liability |
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| Library |
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| Literacy |
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| Logistic |
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| Loyalty |
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| MRP/MRP II |
See Materials Resource Planning (MRP), and Materials
Requirements Planning (MRP II) |
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| Machining |
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| Maintenance |
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| Management |
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| Management Measurement Systems |
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| Management of Change |
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| Manual |
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| Manufacturing |
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| Manufacturing Resource Planning (MRP II) |
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| Market |
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| Marketing |
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| Material |
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| Material Handling |
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| Material Review Board |
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| Materials Resource Planning (MRP) |
A methodology for defining the raw material
requirements for a specific item, component, or sub-assembly ordered
by a customer, or required by a business process.
MRP systems will usually define what is needed, when it is needed, and
by having access to current inventories and pre-existing commitment of
that inventory to other orders to other customers, will indicate what
additional items need to be ordered to fulfill this order.
Some MRP software applications can automatically place those raw
material orders to the preferred supplier by fax, e-mail, or EDI
(Electronic Data Interchange). MRP has been mostly replaced by the
super-set MRP II. MRP II has been replaced in some cases by the even
more complex & comprehensive ERP (Enterprise Resource Management).
The basis of MRP is usually accomplished by a "one-to-many"
relationship; linking one SKU (Stock Keeping Unit) to all the nuts,
screws, metal, software, etc. that goes into that unit. This is
usually defined by a hiearchial Bill of Materials (BOM) system.
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G. Black, PQA
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| Measurement |
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| Medical |
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| Meeting |
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| Metal |
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| Metrology |
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| Mission |
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| Municipal |
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| National |
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| News |
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| Newsletter |
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| Niche |
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| Not-for-Profit |
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| Nutrition |
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| OGP |
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| Objective |
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| Objectives, Goals, & Plans (OGPs) |
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| Occupational Health & Safety |
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| Office Productivity |
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| Office Technology |
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| Packaging |
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| Painting |
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| Paper Management |
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| Pareto |
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| Patent |
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| Pay Equity |
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| Pay System |
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| People Skill |
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| Petro-chemical |
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| Philosophy |
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| Piece Work |
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| Planning |
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| Plastic |
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| Plexus |
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| Pneumatic |
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| Politic |
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| Poll & Survey |
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| Presentation |
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| Preventative Maintenance |
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| Printing |
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| Problem |
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| Problem Solving |
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| Process |
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| Process Control |
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| Product |
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| Productivity |
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| Project Management |
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| Propaganda |
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| Prospecting |
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| Prototype |
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| Provincial |
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| Public Relation |
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| Purchasing |
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| Puzzle |
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| QA |
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| QS-9000 |
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| Quality Assurance |
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| Quality Circle |
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| Quality Commitment |
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| Quality Corner Publication |
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| Quality Function Deployment |
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| Quality Guru |
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| Quality Plan |
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| Quality |
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| R&D |
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| ROI (Return on Investment) |
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| Re-engineering |
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| Regulation |
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| Reject |
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| Reliability |
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| Renewal |
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| Repair |
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| Research |
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| Restructure |
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| Restructuring |
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| Resume |
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| Retreat |
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| Revenue Canada |
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| Robotic |
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| SPC |
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| Safety |
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| Sales |
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| Satisfaction |
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| Scheduling |
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| Security |
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| Self-Directed Work Team |
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| Self-employed |
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| Selling |
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| Service |
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| Shift Schedule |
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| Shingo Prize |
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| Small Business |
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| Software |
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| Specifications |
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| Speech |
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| Stamping |
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| Standard |
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| Statistical Process Control |
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| Strategic |
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| Strategic Planning |
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| Supplier QA |
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| Supplier/Customer |
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| Survey & Poll |
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| TE Supplement (QS-9000) |
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| TE Supplement of QS-9000 |
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| TE-9000 |
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| Taguchi |
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| Tariff Wage System |
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| Tax |
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| Teamwork |
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| Technology |
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| Telemarketing |
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| Time & Motion Study |
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| Tire |
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| Tolerance |
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| Tooling |
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| Tort |
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| Total Quality Management |
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| Trade Show |
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| Trademark |
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| Transportation |
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| Turnaround |
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| Unions |
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| Value |
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| Vision |
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| WHMIS |
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| Waste |
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| Website |
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| Writing |
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