manufacturing automation
121Business and Industry Review — ▪ 1999 Introduction Overview Annual Average Rates of Growth of Manufacturing Output, 1980 97, Table Pattern of Output, 1994 97, Table Index Numbers of Production, Employment, and Productivity in Manufacturing Industries, Table (For Annual… …
122Scientific management — Taylorism redirects here. For other uses, see Taylorism (disambiguation). Frederick Taylor (1856 1915), lead developer of scientific management Scientific management, also called Taylorism,[1] was a theory of management that …
123Distributed control system — Part of a series of articles on Industry Manufacturing methods Batch production • Job production Continuous production Improvement method …
124Numerical control — CNC redirects here. For other uses, see CNC (disambiguation). A CNC Turning Center …
125Test engineer — A (hardware) test engineer (TE) is a professional who determines how to create a process that would test a particular product in manufacturing, or related area like RMA department, in order to guarantee that the product will be shipped out with… …
126Overall equipment effectiveness — (OEE) is a hierarchy of metrics which evaluates and indicates how effectively a manufacturing operation is utilized. The results are stated in a generic form which allows comparison between manufacturing units in differing industries. It is not… …
127NX (software) — Infobox Software name = NX caption = NX screenshot developer = Siemens PLM Software latest release version = NX 6 latest release date = June 30, 2008 operating sy stem = Unix / Windows / Linux / Mac OS X genre = CAD software license = Proprietary …
128Automated guided vehicle — The automated guided vehicle or automatic guided vehicle (AGV) is a mobile robot used in industrial applications to move materials around a manufacturing facility or a warehouse. Introduction Automated guided vehicles (AGVs) help to reduce costs… …
