In this English vocabulary sheet we will be going over all the words and terms related to the heavy industry, to factories and the manufacturing process; along with their definitions.
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The Definitions of Industry, Factory and Manufacturing
Manufacturing represents the production of goods (usually in a factory) by using labor, various machines and tools as well as processing and formulation.
Factory Vocabulary Words
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| Automation | A technique that ensures the functioning of a machine or a group of machines with no human assistance |
| Autonomous work team | A unit of about ten people who are entrusted with the execution of a task, and whose entire responsibility is assigned to this team |
| Contractor | A person who undertakes the execution of a work by a company contract |
| Efficiency | Ratio of usable energy supplied by a machine compared to the actual energy provided to it |
| Engineering | Overall study of an industrial project in its technical, economic and financial characteristics |
| Facilities | Factories and their machinery where various products are manufactured |
| Fields | The different types of economic activity that combine the elements of production |
| Forecast | Sales projections by product range and optimisation of resources to use |
| Handling | Manual or mechanical processing and moving of goods for storage, shipment or sale |
| Labor | Workers hired in the execution of a given task |
| Logistics | The management of material flows and resources for the production of a factory |
| Maintenance | The sustaining or restoring equipment to a predetermined state so as to ensure its capacity to fulfil the intended task |
| Manufacturer | Owner of a craft or industrial production company |
| Multi-skilled worker | A worker who has the skills to carry out tasks in one or more branches of the industry |
| Organised labour | An organisation which ensures the collective and individual defence of workers’ rights |
| Operation | Ensuring the production of a material, an ore, a product or a service |
| Overload | Exceeding of a machine or a system’s actual capacity |
| Production | The process of transforming a raw material into a new product |
| Temporary worker | A worker temporarily hired by a company to fill in for an absent employee on an ad hoc basis |
| Cement works | A plant that is specialised in concrete manufacturing |
| Distillery | A plant for the production of liquor-based products |
| Flour mill | Industrial plant for the transformation of seeds into flour |
| Forge | Workshop where metals and alloys are mechanically transformed by heat or cold processing |
| Foundry | A foundry is a plant used to manufacture steel in bulk, into the shape of semi-manufactured products |
| Manufactures | Big industrial plants, grouping in the same workshop several equipments, each of them being controlled by a single manager, carrying out various processes for the same production |
| Paper mill | A factory specialising in the processing of raw materials such as wood or other fibrous materials into paper |
| Refinery | A plant where raw materials are transformed into finished products, such as sugar, oil... |
| Spinning mill | A factory that manufactures textile fabrics into threads |
| Steelworks | Factory where steel is produced |
| Warehouse | A place used as a shelter, for storing goods |
| Wire drawing | Factory where steel is stretched into wire |
| Workshop | Section of a factory where workers are doing the same task |
Manufacturing Vocabulary Words
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| Construction industry | A business of varying size that carries out building or civil infrastructure work |
| Consumer good | A manufactured product destined for the final consumer |
| Finished product | An article manufactured or modified by a business from the raw materials |
| Industrialist | Head of a business processing raw materials into finished goods |
| Machine-tool | A mechanical equipment for executing a manufacturing or other repetitive task with appropriate precision and power |
| Mass production | A method of manufacturing in which products are linearly moved from station to station until they take their final shape |
| Motor industry | A business that closely links together embedded producers, developers, assemblers, principals and sub-suppliers, as well as vehicles fit-out service providers |
| Oil industry | A business which covers the oil and gas industry chain from the source to the consumer |
| Packaging | Wrapping a product so that it can be stored, sold, used and consumed in the best possible way |
| Plant | A building or complex of buildings for industrial production |
| Procurement | It is the purchase of goods, materials, pieces, etc. to be resold, transformed or stored |
| Production line | The whole manufacturing processes required to create a finished product, from raw materials to market release |
| Raw material | All primary resources used in the creation or processing of a final or manufactured product |
| Stock | Quantity of goods in storage to sustain business activity |
| Stockout | When a company’s stocks are insufficient to meet demand |
| Supplier | A person who is in charge of the ordering of the necessary raw materials for the manufacturing of the product, and making sure that they are delivered in time and quantity |
| Value added | The gains generated in the production process |
| Waste | Any good at any stage of the supply chain is lost, dumped, damaged, etc. |
| Work force | The number of workers hired by the firm under an employment contract |
| Assembly line | An assembly line is a manufacturing process in which parts are mechanically assembled one after the other until the final product is achieved. This process requires less labour and saves valuable time |
| Availability | Evaluation of the time necessary to manufacture a product by a machine. It’s thus possible to deduce its profitability |
| Bill of materials | It’s a comprehensive list of raw materials, components and tools needed to manufacture an item |
| Cell | A workshop where all the processes required to manufacture a component or a sub-assembly are carried-out in close proximity, often in a U-shaped layout, enabling rapid turnaround between processes when problems arise |
| Coordinate measuring machine | These are devices that enable you to find the coordinates of measured marks on a mechanical part |
| Cycle-time | Refers to the time it takes to repeat a task, from the beginning of processing one product on a machine or operation to the starting point of processing another similar product on the same equipment or procedure |
| Downtime | Corresponds to production disruptions that penalise the productivity of a factory, to be distinguished from breakdown |
| Finished goods | A product which, after being manufactured, is ready for distribution |
| Human machine interface | A control panel that helps a user to connect to a machine, computer program or system to input data for manufacturing |
| Make to assemble | Entire components premade in the factory for a standardised design and a rapid assembly |
| Make to stock | It refers to assembling to order. It requires reactivity on the assembly work and anticipation on the component stocks |
| Open platform communication | A set of norms that cover industrial automation. A real-time transmission of plant data between various manufacturers’ control devices |
| Operational technology | This is the software used by the workers in the workplace, which enables them to monitor and modify the machines' operating functions |
| Performance | Optimise the operational productivity of a machine by working out a way to meet the ideal cycle time |
| Quality | An operation to determine, by appropriate means, whether or not the product, including services, documents, source code, are audited conforms to its pre-established specifications or requirement |
| Time study | Identify the time required for the manufacturing stages and for the entire production cycle |
| Tool | A manufactured object used to act on the matter in order to achieve a task. |
| Tooling | A set of tools for the functioning of a factory, a business |
| Utilisation | It’s the ratio between the production capacity actually mobilised for production, and the total production capacity potential available at a given date |
Short Factory And Manufacturing Vocabulary Quiz
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