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A methodology for to continuous improvement of the quality of an enterprise’s products, services or internal processes.
Industry:Technology
A production system in which the productive units are organized and sequenced according to the steps to produce the product. The routing of the jobs is fixed, and setups are seldom changed.
Industry:Technology
A methodology for improving production, driven by formal metrics and measurement programs, including methodology upgrades.
Industry:Technology
Those characteristics of a data-processing system that reduce or eliminate the need for planned downtime, such as scheduled maintenance. One element of 24-hour-a-day, seven-day-a-week operation.
Industry:Technology
Normally used in conjunction with private truck fleets in process industries to keep the trucks moving with different loads and driver crews on regular routes with just-in-time materials. This concept is being adopted by public fleets to utilize their assets more effectively.
Industry:Technology
Continuous integration (CI) systems provide automation of the software build and validation process driven in a continuous way by running a configured sequence of operations every time a software change is checked into the source code management repository. These are closely associated with agile development practices and closely related to the emerging DevOps toolsets.
Industry:Technology
A manufacturing methodology used to improve overall quality by continuously increasing precision in parts specification.
Industry:Technology
Continuous data protection (CDP) is an approach to recovery that continuously, or nearly continuously, captures and transmits changes to files or blocks of data while journaling these changes. This capability provides the option to recover to many more-granular points in time to minimize data loss, and enables arbitrary recovery points. Some CDP solutions can be configured to either capture data continuously (true CDP) or at scheduled times (near CDP).
Industry:Technology
Continuous controls monitoring (CCM) is a set of technologies to reduce business losses through continuous monitoring and reducing the cost of audits through continuous auditing of the controls in financial and other transactional applications.
Industry:Technology
In common-channel signaling, a test performed to check that a path exists for speech or data transmission.
Industry:Technology
