Acronyms, plainly

The workplace organisation method: a place for everything, and a standard that keeps it there.

Marked on the evacuation map.

The specification for electrodeposited coatings of tin — what the tinning certificates are tested against.

Fix the incident, fix what let it happen, then check the fix actually worked.

Machine tools driven by a program rather than by hand.

From the Japanese gemba, “the actual place” — you walk the floor and watch the process being run instead of reading a report about it afterwards.

An order upgraded to high priority, or one coming in that we met to decide whether to bump up in production.

The standard the Resonetics floor ran under.

The written breakdown of a task into its steps, the hazard in each one, and the control for it. Framed and posted where the job is done.

The signal sits at the point of use, so the stack tells you to order rather than you going to look.

The daily meeting, run in a fixed order: safety, quality, delivery, cost, people.

The shop-floor system that tracks material and records transactions. Oracle, in this plant.

Workflow, staffing, floor space and equipment arranged to a defined standard rather than to history.

The record raised when something does not meet specification.

Availability, performance and quality multiplied into one number.

The US federal workplace safety regulator.

Gloves, safety glasses and the rest. Required on the production floor, visitors included.

An event that injured nobody but could have. Reviewed at the daily meeting ahead of everything else.

The hazard sheet that has to be on hand for every chemical on site. Its station is marked on the evacuation map.

The four functional pillars a safety auditor evaluates a manufacturing plant against — the measure of whether the site is safe and compliant with regulators such as OSHA.

The annual filing required under the US Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act.

From order to shipment, laid out so you can see where the time and the cost actually go.