- AALA
American Association for Laboratory Accreditation
- AAR
Appearance Approval Report
- AHP
Analytical Hierarchy Proc
- AIAG
Automotive Industry Action Group
- APQP
Advanced Product Quality Planning
- APQC
American Productivity & Quality Council
- AQP
Advanced Quality Plan
- ASTM
American Society for Testing and Materials
- BOM
Bill Of Material
- CAD
Computer Aided Design
- CAE
Computer Aided Engineering
- CAM
Computer Aided Manufacturing
- CAR
Corrective Action Request
- CIM
Computer Integrated Manufacturing
- CMI
Certified Mechanical Inspector
- COB
Close Of Business
- Cp/Cpk
Capability Ratio/Capability Index
- CPM
Critical Path Method
- CQA
ASQ Certified Quality Auditor
- CQE
ASQ Certified Quality Engineer
- CQM
ASQ Certified Quality Manager
- CQT
ASQ Certified Quality Technician
- CRE
ASQ Certified Reliability Engineer
- CY
Calendar Year
- DFA
Design For Assembly
- DFM
Design For Manufacturing
- DOE
Design Of Experiments
- FEA
Finite Element Analysis
- FMEA
Failure Mode and Effects Analysis
- Gage R&R
Gage Repeatability & Reproducibility
- ISIR
Initial Sample Inspection Report (now PSW)
- ISR
Initial Sample Report (now PSW)
- ISO-9000
International Standards Organization - Quality standard for evaluating quality systems
- ISW
Initial Sample Warrant (now PSW)
- M&T E
Measuring & Test Equipment
- MSA
Measurement System Analysis
- MTBF
Mean Time Between Failure
- MTTR
Mean Time To Repair
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- NCR
Non-Conformance Report
- P/N
Part Number
- PO
Purchase Order
- PPAP
Production Parts Approval Process
- PSW
Product Sample Warrant
- QC
Quality Control
- QFD
Quality Function Deployment
- QIS
Quality Information System
- QOO
Quality of Operations
- QOS
Quality Operating System
- QS-9000
Quality System 9000
- RFP
Request For Proposal
- RFQ
Request For Quotation
- RPN
Risk Priority Number (ref: FMEA)
- SOW
Statement of Work
- SPC
Statistical Process Control
- SQA
Supplier Quality Assistance
- SQE
Supplier Quality Engineering
- TBD
To Be Determined
- TOPS
Team Oriented Problem Solving
- TQM
Total Quality Management
- YTD
Year To Date
- 8D
Eight Discipline Problem Solving Method and Report
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