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| Main Aisle | A passageway wide enough to permit the easy flow of equipment, supplies, and personnel; it generally runs the length of the building. |
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| MAN | Metropolitan Area Networks (Metro Area Network) are large computer networks usually spanning a campus or a city. They typically use wireless infrastructure or optical fiber connections to link their sites. For instance a university or college may have a MAN that joins together many of their local area networks (LANs) situated around site of a fraction of a square kilometer. Then from their MAN they could have several wide area network (WAN) links to other universities or the Internet. Some technologies used for this purpose are ATM, FDDI, and SMDS. These technologies are in the process of being displaced by Ethernet-based MANs (e.g. Metro Ethernet) in most areas. MAN links between LANs have traditionally been built without cables using microwave, radio, or infrared free-space optical communication links. |
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| Manufacturing Resource Planning | Process for determining material, labor, and machine requirements in a manufacturing environment. MRPII is the consolidation of Material Requirements Planning (MRP), Capacity Requirements Planning (CRP), and Master Production Scheduling (MPS). MRP was originally designed for materials planning only. When labor and machine (resources) planning were incorporated it became known as MRPII. Today the definition of MRPII is generally associated with MRP systems. |
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| Master Production Schedule | Production schedule specifying specific items, quantities, and dates at which production is expected to take place. The primary purpose of an MPS is to manage capacity when you have some time periods where demand is expected to exceed capacity. You will then use MPS to produce some products in advance of demand (forecasted or actual orders) during periods when capacity exceeds demand. |
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| Material Handling | Material Handling is the movement, storage, control and protection of materials, goods and products throughout the process of manufacturing, distribution, consumption and disposal. The focus is on the methods, mechanical equipment, systems and related controls used to achieve these functions. |
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| Material Handling Equipment | Material Handling Equipment is the mechanical equipment used in the movement, storage, control and protection of materials, goods and products throughout the process of manufacturing, distribution, consumption and disposal. |
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| Materials Management | The planning of acquisition, maintaining inventory and disposition. This process is based upon scheduling according to need and anticipated usage. |
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| MES | Manufacturing Execution System - Software systems designed to integrate with enterprise systems to enhance the shop floor control functionality in ERP systems. MES provides for shop floor scheduling, production and labor reporting, integration with computerized manufacturing systems such as automatic data collection, and computerized machinery.
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| Metrics | Quantitative measures of performance or production used to indicate progress or achievement against strategic goals. |
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| Middleware | Software designed to integrate separate software and/or hardware systems. Middleware provides the communication between the disparate systems. |
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| Minimum Inventory | The amount of stock on hand that has been designated as safety stock. |
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| MPS | See Master Production Schedule
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| MRO | Maintenance, Repair, and Operating Inventory - Term used to describe inventory used to maintain equipment as well as miscellaneous supplies such as office and cleaning supplies.
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| MRP | See Manufacturing Resource Planning
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| MRPII / MRP II | See Manufacturing Resource Planning
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| Multi-Plant | Environments where multiple physical sites are managed. |
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| Multi-Warehouse Picking | Inventory picking and putaway processes across multiple warehouses. Warehouses can be located in the same building, on the same came campus, in the same town, or across the country. Warehouse Management Systems (WMSs) must be able to handle multiple physical locations or the WMS software from each warehouse must be able to interface with the others to share inventory and order data. |
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