Dell常用专有名词

Acronyms for SEQ SSM Class

General Acronyms

4MEP

–

Machines, Materials, Measurements, Methods, Environment, People. General cause

categories. Also known as 5M’s or 6M’s.

AIAG

–

Automotive Industry Action Group.

AMF

–

(Dell) Americas Manufacturing Facility. Includes factories located in Austin, Nashville,

and North Carolina

APCC

–

(Dell) Asia-Pacific Customer Center. Factory located in Penang, Malaysia

AVL

–

Approved Vendor List. Sometimes ASL (Approved Suppliers List). Some interchange

with BOM (Build of Materials or Bill of Materials), but BOM is different than AVL/ASL.

BC

–

Business Contract.

BPI

–

Business Process Improvement. Dell’s Quality philosophy, which includes Six Sigma

tools and practices, Lean Technology principles, and other aspects of Quality Improvement.

BST

–

Business Strategy Team.

CA

–

Corrective Action.

CCC

–

(Dell) China Customer Center. Factory located in Xiamen, China

CE

–

Customer Experience.

CIP

–

Continual (or Continuous) Improvement Process.

COC

–

Center of Competency.

COS

–

Continuity of Supply.

CTQ

–

Critical to Quality, usually referring to characteristics of the product or process.

CLCA

–

Closed Loop Corrective Action. A methodology of characterizing, containing,

resolving and reporting special cause events in a process.

DES/DID

–

Design- Induced Damage.

DFSS

–

Design for Six Sigma.

DFX (or DFx)

–

Design for X, often called “Design for Everything.” Types of X’es include:

Cost, Quality, Reliability, Manufacturing, Test, Service, Six Sigma

DVT

–

Design Validation Testing.

E2E

–

End to End, referring to a type of process flowchart or map.

EBST

–

Executive Business Strategy Team.

ECN

–

Engineering Change Notification.

ECO

–

Engineering Change Order.

EICC

–

Electronics Industry Code of Conduct.

EMF

–

(Dell) Europe Manufacturing Center. Factory located in Limerick, Ireland. Will include

new factory in Poland in the near future.

EOL

–

End of Life. The end of warranty obligations (typically the same as EOSL).

EOPL

–

End of Production Life. Dell factory stops manufacturing.

EOS

–

Electrical Over Stress.

EOSL

–

End of Service Life. Dell stops servicing (typically when warranty period complete).

ESD

–

Electro Static Discharge.

EVT

–

Engineering Validation Testing.

FA

–

Failure Analysis.

FAI

–

First Article Inspection.

FIFO

–

First In First Out.

FMEA

–

Failure Mode Effects Analysis.

FPM

–

Functional Process Manual.

GB/BB

–

Green Belt / Black Belt. Levels of skill and knowledge attainment within Six Sigma;

often refers to specific certifications.

GR&R

–

Gage Repeatability & Reproducibility.

HALT

–

Highly Accelerated Life Test.

HASS

–

Highly Accelerated Stress Screen.

IQA

–

Incoming Quality Assurance.

IQC

–

Incoming Quality Control.

JMP

–

Name of a powerful statistical program used in data

analysis. Began as “Jon’s Mac

Project” in 1989.

LOB

–

Line of Business.

MARCOM

–

Marketing Communication.

MQT

–

Manufacturing Quality and Test, another title for the QMP.

MRB

–

Material Review Board.

MSA

–

Measurement System Analysis.

MSE

–

Measurement System Error.

MTBF

–

Mean Time Between Failures.

NPI

–

New Product Introduction.

NPO

–

New Product Operations.

NPP

–

New Product Process; also used for New Product Plan.

NPRR

–

New Product Readiness Review. A review sequence that is mostly replaced by Safe

Launch.

OBA

–

Out of Box Audit.

OHSAS

–

Occupational Health and Safety Assessment Series. A pair of standards, OHSAS

18001 and 18002, on OHS Management Systems (OHSMS).

OPEX

–

Operating Expenses. Including headcount, travel expense, administrative expense, etc.

OQC

–

Outgoing Quality Control.

ODM

–

Original Design Manufacturer.

ORT

–

Ongoing Reliability Test(ing).

OSV

–

On-site Verification.

PCN

–

Process Change Notification. Sometimes Product Change Notification, but not often.

PDCA

–

Plan Do Check Act. An improvement methodology.

PFG

–

Product Features Guide.

PID

–

Process-Induced Damage, usually implying Dell process (but also widely used in industry).

PG

–

(Dell) Product Group.

PM

–

Program Manager.

PMT

–

Process Maturity Testing.

PO

–

Purchase Order.

PRP

–

Phase Review Process.

PWB

–

Printed Wiring Board. Also called PCB (Printed Circuit Board)

QBR

–

Quarterly Business Review.

QDS

–

Quality Data System.

QMP

–

Quality Management Plan.

QMS

–

Quality Management System.

QPA

–

Quality Process Audit. Commodity specific tool/checklist at Dell.

QS

–

Quality System.

QSA

–

Quality Systems Audit. Standard (same for all commodities) tool/checklist at Dell.

RACI

–

Responsible, Accountable, Consulted, Informed. Four categories of job responsibility

involvement.

R&R

–

Roles and Responsibilities.

RFI

–

Request for Information.

RFQ/RFP

–

Request for Quote / Request for Proposal. No significant difference within the Dell

WWP system, but may mean different things in other companies.