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      "term": "Overall Equipment Effectiveness",
      "category": "Metric",
      "definition": "A measure of productive time combining availability, performance, and quality.",
      "abbreviation": "OEE"
    },
    {
      "term": "Defects Per Million Opportunities",
      "category": "Quality",
      "definition": "The rate of defects normalized to one million chances to occur.",
      "abbreviation": "DPMO"
    },
    {
      "term": "Six Sigma",
      "category": "Methodology",
      "definition": "A data-driven approach targeting near-zero defects (3.4 per million).",
      "abbreviation": "6σ"
    },
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      "term": "Lean manufacturing",
      "category": "Methodology",
      "definition": "A system focused on eliminating waste and maximizing customer value.",
      "abbreviation": "Lean"
    },
    {
      "term": "Kaizen",
      "category": "Methodology",
      "definition": "Continuous, incremental improvement driven by frontline teams.",
      "abbreviation": "—"
    },
    {
      "term": "Kanban",
      "category": "Scheduling",
      "definition": "A visual signaling system that paces work to actual demand.",
      "abbreviation": "—"
    },
    {
      "term": "Just-in-Time",
      "category": "Inventory",
      "definition": "Producing and receiving materials only as needed to cut inventory.",
      "abbreviation": "JIT"
    },
    {
      "term": "Takt time",
      "category": "Scheduling",
      "definition": "The pace of production needed to meet customer demand.",
      "abbreviation": "—"
    },
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      "term": "Bill of Materials",
      "category": "Planning",
      "definition": "The structured list of components and quantities needed to build a product.",
      "abbreviation": "BOM"
    },
    {
      "term": "Material Requirements Planning",
      "category": "Planning",
      "definition": "A system that plans materials and production from demand and inventory data.",
      "abbreviation": "MRP"
    },
    {
      "term": "Enterprise Resource Planning",
      "category": "Systems",
      "definition": "Integrated software managing finance, inventory, and operations.",
      "abbreviation": "ERP"
    },
    {
      "term": "Work-in-Process",
      "category": "Inventory",
      "definition": "Partially completed goods still moving through production.",
      "abbreviation": "WIP"
    },
    {
      "term": "Production Part Approval Process",
      "category": "Quality",
      "definition": "A supplier approval process confirming parts meet requirements before volume production.",
      "abbreviation": "PPAP"
    },
    {
      "term": "Failure Mode and Effects Analysis",
      "category": "Quality",
      "definition": "A structured method to identify and prioritize potential failure risks.",
      "abbreviation": "FMEA"
    },
    {
      "term": "Statistical Process Control",
      "category": "Quality",
      "definition": "Using statistical charts to monitor and control a process over time.",
      "abbreviation": "SPC"
    }
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    {
      "url": "https://www.nist.gov/mep",
      "name": "NIST — Manufacturing Glossary & MEP Resources"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://asq.org/quality-resources",
      "name": "ASQ — Quality Resources"
    }
  ],
  "category": "glossary",
  "vertical": "manufacturing",
  "data_note": "All records are public-domain facts compiled from the cited sources as of the asOf date. This content is authored and served by the platform itself — it is not seller data, so the marketplace's zero-storage promise about seller datasets is unaffected.",
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  "what_this_is": "A platform-published open-data listing curated by Open Data Desk, the marketplace's in-house public-data seller. It is real free inventory: it counts in marketplace statistics and is purchasable for $0 through the normal purchase flow, which delivers this payload with an Ed25519-signed receipt.",
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    "term": "Term, metric, or method",
    "category": "Domain the term belongs to",
    "definition": "Plain-language meaning",
    "abbreviation": "Common abbreviation or code"
  },
  "buyer_use_cases": [
    "Standardize operational vocabulary across plants, suppliers, and software integrations.",
    "Train new operations and quality staff with concise, source-backed definitions."
  ]
}