- ERP - Enterprise Resource Planning, ERP systems are software tools used for the planning and control of the product from order entry through shipment. The typical ERP suites integrate the manufacturing, distribution and financial functions. Thus, ERP systems are business strategies to enable manufacturing companies to optimize their operations. (see Bourke Consulting Associates)
- FSE - Field Service Engineer
- MRP - Manufacturing Resource Planning, an earlier generation or lower tier system of ERP.
- PDM - Product Data Management, an earlier generation reference to PLM, PDM typically encompasses simple document vaulting and change management.
- PLM - Product Lifecycle Management, the set of processes that manages product related information from concept to production to obsolescence - at a systems level, an set of enterprise applications or point solutions that enable those processes.
- RoHS - European regulations for the Reduction of Hazardous Substances - good information site can be found at http://www.rohs-news.com/
- SME - Subject Matter Expert
- WEEE - tightly connect to RoHS, regulations regarding Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment, see http://www.rohs-news.com/
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