Subject: RE: BS: Acronyms
From:
Jon Freeman
Date: 04 May 02 - 08:44 AM
I can sypathise but I guess I will carry on using the more common addreviations. The worst I had in this sort of thing was when I worked at Hotpoint, was new to the current system and had the task of documenting what was to be the new system. I had loads of these to remember as well as to remember what the document was for and where and how they fitted into the system. Here are a few of them I an remember.
SN - Scrap Notification
RAS - Rejection Against Supplier
RADN - Rejection Advice Debit Note
DN - Dispatch Note (at least to someone in dispatch)
DN - Discrepancy Note (at least to someone in goods inwards)
IRN - Inter-factory Rejection Note
GRN - Goods Recieved Note
DMR - Defective Material Report
PSPA - Production Supplies Purchasing Authority
DCN - Design Change Notification
STN - Stock Transfer Note
SCN - Stock Correction Note
TCS - Transfer to Commercial Stock
Then there were the computer generated reports which were all numbers, e.g. a 576 detailed the stuff that had been entered on a 530A (which happened to be the SN document. It was computer generated to save QA worrying about filling in part numbers for certain items) by QA as awaiting return to supplier (rather than scrapped on site). In other words depending on whether the supplier was a Hotpoint company or an outside supplier, it was waiting for an IRN or an RAS to be raised... Provided of course that it hadn't been subject to one of the 52x series of error reports...
Then there were the computer screens or formats which we used to key the information into (and use to read the information), e.g. Production end of shift figures were keyed in on X86 or X87 depending on some setting on EK0 (basically X86 either put the finished stock in the same production area or into a global area known as WIP - very convenient but some items had to be put into named locations). Then of course certain documents such as the 530A were not even keyed on site but sent to the (Llandudno) Junction factory.
Then there were the meanings of things on the screens, e.g. the part type...
A = Assembly, flowline production
B = Assembly, batch
C = phantom part but allow a count/production figure to enable sub assemblies that we did not hold counts on to be booked to CSD (Customer Spares Department - I think)
D = flagged for deletion
M = Raw material
P = Plated (historical). It was a workaround to allow us to get some work done off site, while retaining stock figures - the bits off site were held in a location Bates (again historical). When the completed parts came back and a GRN was raised, not only were they booked into stock but the stock of the component parts in Bates were reduced. R = Redundant
S = Supplied (bought out part)
T = Phantom part.
Then if you wanted to understood by people when talking about part numbers, you even had to know how to say them, e.g 015, 016 and 017 part numbers split 3,4,2 so if you asked about 016..1236..01 (which was an inner drum assembly), you would get some usually useful response but if you asked about an 016..123..601, people on the shop floor would look at you blankly.
I almost literally had nighmares about all this stuff for a few months but it reached the stage where it all became second nature and for some time, I was the only person on site who pretty well knew the whole system (most people only needed to know thier own area) and could answer the questions such as "what document do I need?", "which section does this"?, "how do I fill this in?", "why is this showing this figure?", etc.
The most frightening part to me is that I left more than 10 years ago and much of it seems to be stuck with me as if it was only yesterday I left... I wonder how much, if any of that system exists now...
Jon
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