Flexible Manufacturing Systems $($FMS$)$

Customer Compliance Bar Codes

Automatic Data Capture

Automated Materials Handling

General Purpose Equipment

Computerized Production Systems

Maintaining Extra Capacity

Contract Labor

Outsourcing

Broad Jobs

Employee Autonomy

Employee Impact

Cross Training$/$Job Rotation

Labor$-$Management Relations

DEFINITIONS

On time the ability to effectively respond to planned delivery dates delielery

supblier policies, procedures, and practices for assessing and improving supplier capability and performance in multiple areas such as quality, design support, and delivery

bringing all of the participants in the product life cycle into the process early on so even suppliers and customers can provide input to each others' processes

a set of practices to foster a long$-$term cooperative labor$-$management relationship that permits things such as flexible job assignments

the ability to create a positive or favorable image in the customer's mi