Glossary

3D Visualization 5S (Workplace Organization)

Accelerometer Active RFID (RTLS) AGV (Automated Guided Vehicle) AI (Artificial Intelligence) AMR (Autonomous Mobile Robot) Andon Anomaly Detection AoA (Angle of Arrival) AOS (Automated Ordering System) API (Application Programming Interface) Area Occurrence Areas (Digital Twin) Asset Tracking Autonomous Production

Beacon (RTLS) Big Data BIM (Building Information Modeling) BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy) BLE Advertising Interval BMS (Building Management System) Bottleneck Brownfield and Greenfield Deployment Buffer Management

CAD (Computer-Aided Design) Cage Change Management Closed-Loop Digital Twin Cloud Computing CMMS (Computerized Maintenance Management System) Cobot (Collaborative Robot) Computer Vision Condition Monitoring Continuous Improvement Correlation and Causality Analytics Corrugated Carton Coverage Map (RTLS) Cross-Docking Cyber-Physical System Cybersecurity Cycle Time

Dark Factory Data Governance Data Lake Data Quality Data Silo Data update rate Data Warehouse DCS (Distributed Control System) Deep Learning Digital Maturity Digital model Digital shadow Digital Thread Digital Transformation Digital Twin Digital twin aggregate (DTA) Digital twin instance (DTI) Digital twin prototype (DTP) Discrete Event Simulation Driver Group Drum Dwell Time

e-Kanban Edge AI Edge Computing Empty Travel End-to-End Logistics Visibility ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) Ethernet

FIBC (Flexible Intermediate Bulk Container) Fieldbus First Pass Yield (FPY) Fleet Management Fleet Saturation FMEA (Failure Mode and Effects Analysis) Foldable Crate Forklift Forklift Guidance System (FGS)

Gemba Generative AI Geofencing GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) GPS (Global Positioning System)

Heat Map (Logistics) Historian (Data Historian) Historical Replay HMI (Human-Machine Interface) HVAC (Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning) Hybrid Cloud

IBC (Intermediate Bulk Container) IIoT (Industrial Internet of Things) Indoor Positioning System (IPS) Industry 4.0 Industry 5.0 Interoperability (Industry 4.0) Inventory Management IoT (Internet of Things) IT/OT Convergence

JIS (Just-In-Sequence) JIT (Just-In-Time)

Kaizen Kanban KLT Box KPI (Key Performance Indicator)

Labor Turnover Latency Layers (Digital Twin) Lean Manufacturing LiDAR Scanning Lights-Out Manufacturing Logistics Optimization Lone Worker LoRaWAN (Long Range Wide Area Network) LOS (Line of Sight) LTE (4G / 5G)

Machine Learning (ML) Machine Vision Maintenance Optimization Master Data Material Call-Off MES (Manufacturing Execution System) Mesh Geometry Middleware Milk Run Milk-Run Orders vs Direct Forklift Orders MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures) MTTR (Mean Time to Repair) Multi-Site Deployment Multipath

Neural Network NFC (Near-Field Communication) NLOS (Non-Line-of-Sight) No-Go Zone Non-Value-Added Work

OEE (Overall Equipment Effectiveness) OLE (Overall Labor Effectiveness) On-Premise One-Way Packaging OPC UA Operational Digital Twin OT Security

Pallet Photogrammetry Physics-Based Simulation Pick-to-Light Plastic Tote PLC (Programmable Logic Controller) PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) Point Cloud Poka-Yoke Power Drop Predictive Analytics Predictive Maintenance Predictive Twin Prescriptive Analytics Process Mining

Rack Real-Time Value Stream Mapping REST (Representational State Transfer) Returnable Packaging RFID (Radio-Frequency Identification) ROI (Return on Investment) Root Cause Analysis (RCA) RPA (Robotic Process Automation) RSSI (Received Signal Strength Indicator) RTLS (Real-Time Location System) RTLS Anchor

SaaS (Software as a Service) SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) Scrap Rate Search and Find Semantic Modeling Sensor Fusion Shift Balancing Simulation Simulation Digital Twin Six Sigma SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping) Slotting Optimization Smart Factory Smart Manufacturing SMED (Single-Minute Exchange of Die) Spaghetti Diagram Spatially Oriented Dataset Spatiotemporal Data Standardization Static Digital Twin Statistical Process Control (SPC) Stillage Supermarket Supply Chain System Integration

Takt Time TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) Throughput Time of Flight (ToF) TMS (Transportation Management System) TPM (Total Productive Maintenance) Transport Order Tugger

Unknown Processes UWB (Ultra-Wideband)

Value Stream Mapping (VSM) VHF Phase Ranging (RTLS) Virtual Commissioning

Wi-Fi WIP (Work in Progress) WMS (Warehouse Management System) Wooden Crate Work Order

Yard Management System (YMS)