Prepared by: ROMULUS MILEA

Phone: +40 256 303 658 or 0724 211 776

LAST UPDATE: 8-Jan-2009
This list contains: 1418 terms.

List of abbreviations used by Flextronics Romania

Current
Abbreviation Meaning
number
1 0
Angular measure; degree
2 0
C Degree Celsius / centigrade
3 0
F Degree Fahrenheit
4 2DI Two Dimensional Inspection (on Screen printing machines)
5 3D Three-dimensional
6 3DPM 3 Dimensional Packaging Module
7 5S Seiri (Organization or sort), Seiton (Orderliness or arrange), Seisou (Cleanliness), Seiketsu (Standardized cleanup), Shitsuke (Discipline)
8 A Ampere
9 A/D After date
10 A/I Automatic insertion
11 A/P Accounts payable
12 A/R Accounts receivable or All risks
13 A/S After sight
14 AAGR Average annual growth rate
15 AAR Against all risks
16 ABC Activity based costing
17 ABP Active Business Partners
18 ABS Acrylonitrile-Butadiene-styrene (plastic) or Antiblocking system
19 ac Alternating current
20 AC Alternating current
21 ACAR Audit corrective action request
22 ACI Axial circuit insertion
23 ACM Advanced component mounter (Philips machine)
24 ACP African, Caribbean and Pacific Countries
25 ACWP Actual Cost of Work Performed (EVA term)
26 AD After date
27 ADB Asian Development Bank
28 ADL Allowable dirt level
29 ADM Activity Diagram Method
30 ADP Avis de depannage provisoire
31 AEC African Economic Community
32 AEC Architecture, engineering, and construction
33 AfDB African Development Bank
34 AFNOR Association Francaise de Normalization
35 AGV Automatic guided vehicle
36 AI Artificial intelligence
37 AIAG Automotive Industry Action Group
38 AICPA American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
39 AIMS Automated inspection & Measurement systems
40 AIPM Australian Institute of Project Management
41 AIS Adhesive interconnect system
42 AL Arab League
43 ALADI Latin American Integration Association
44 ALAP As Late As Possible (flexible constraint in Microsoft Project)
45 ALE Assembly line equipment
46 AM Automatic module (FCM Philips machines)
47 AMF American Manufacturing Facility (N. Amer. Factory/Region)
48 AML Approved manufacturing list
49 AMU Arab Maghreb Union
50 ANOVA Analysis of variance
51 ANSI American national standards institute
52 ANZUS Australia-New Zealand-United States Security Treaty
53 AOA Activity on Arrow
54 AOI Automatic optical inspection
55 AOL America on line
56 AON Activity on Node
57 AOP Annual operational plan
58 AOQ Average outgoing quality
59 APCC Asia Pacific Customer Center (Penang)
60 APEC Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation
61 APICS American production and inventory control system
62 APR Asian Pacific Region
63 APS Advanced Planning System
64 APT Automatically programmed tools
65 AQC Acceptance quality control
66 AQL Acceptable quality level
67 AQS Assembly quality system
68 AR Action require or All risks
69 ARPA Advanced Research Projects Agency
70 AS After sight
71 ASAP As soon as possible
72 ASCII American Standard Code for Information Interchange
73 ASEAN Association of South-East Asian Nations
74 ASIC Application specific integrated circuit

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75 ASL Approved supplier list
76 ASM American Society for Metals
77 ASME American Society of Mechanical Engineers
78 ASP Automatic stencil printer or Association of Shareware Professionals
79 ASQC American Society for Quality Control
80 ASTM American Society for Testing Materials
81 AT Advanced technology
82 at. % Atomic percent
83 ATE Automatic test equipment
84 ATG Automatic test generation
85 atm Atmospheres
86 ATP Advanced technology program or Available to promise
87 ATS Automatic test system
88 AUDI Accelerates Under Demonic Influence
89 AUDI Always Unsafe Designs Implemented
90 AVL Approved vendor listing
91 AVL Approved vendor list
92 AWB Air way bill
93 AWG American Wire Gauge
94 AXI Automatic X-ray inspection
95 BABT British approval board for telecommunications
96 BAC Budget at Completion
97 BATS Basic assurance tests
98 BBRAM Battery backup random access memory
99 BC Business center
100 BCC Blind carbon copy
101 BCD Best Can Do
102 BCP Business continuity plan
103 BCP B.o.M. Change Proposal
104 BCWP Budgeted Cost of Work Performed (EVA term)
105 BCWS Budgeted Cost of Work Scheduled (EVA term)
106 BD Breakdown
107 BDX Bordeaux (France)
108 BEC Basic electronic components
109 Benelux Benelux Economic Union
110 BER Bit error rate
111 BGA Ball grid array
112 BI Barcode identification (FCM Philips machines)
113 BIA Business impact analysis
114 BID Business Initiative Directions
115 BIOS Basic input output system
116 BIS Bank for International Settlements
117 BIST Built in self-test
118 BIT Binary digit (value = 1 or 0, on or off)
119 BIT Built in test
120 BL Back load
121 BLEU Belgo-Luxembourg Economic Union
122 BM Bad mark
123 BMS Bad mark sensing (FCM Philips machines)
124 BMV Board vision module (FCM Philips machines)
125 BMW Beautiful Mechanical Wonder
126 BMW Big Money Works
127 BMW Bought My Wife
128 BMW Brutal Money Waster
129 BO Business Objects
130 BOD Biochemical oxygen demand
131 BOM Bill of material
132 BPO Business process owner
133 BPP Basic productive process - reduction on tariff for parts and assemblies
134 BPS Best practice sharing
135 BQFP Bumper quad flat pack
136 BRA Basic Rate Acces
137 BS Boundary scan
138 BSB Backstreet boys
139 BSI British standards institute (ISO 9000 Certifier)
140 BTAB Bumped tape-automated bonding
141 BTO Build to order
142 BTTE Built-in test equipment
143 BTU British thermal unit
144 BTW By The Way
145 BUICK Big Ugly Indestructable Car Killer
146 Burn-in Thermal chamber that heats and cools boards to detect latent failures
147 Byte String of 8 bits (generally defines a keyboard character)
148 C&F Cost and freight
149 C&I Cost, insurance
150 C&I Commission and interest
151 C/A Corrective action
152 C/C Communication center
153 C/D Cash against documents
154 C4 Controlled collapse chip connect
155 CACM Central American Common Market
156 CAD Computer-aided (assisted) design or Cash against documents

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157 CADDIE Program that receives and catalogs customer CAD data
158 CAE Computer assisted engineering or Certificate in Advanced English
159 CAFM Computer aided facilities management
160 CAGE Commercial and government entity
161 CAGR Compounded annual growth rate
162 CALS Computer aided acquisition and logistic support
163 CAM Computer-aided (assisted) manufacturing
164 CAN Controller area network (on DeK machine)
165 CAO Chief Administrative Officer
166 CAPP Computer aided process planning
167 Caps Lock Capital letters lock
168 CAR Corrective action request or Capital approval request or Corrective action report
169 CARICOM Caribbean Community and Common Market
170 CASE Computer aided software engineering
171 CAT Computer aided testing
172 CBA Circuit board assembly
173 CBC&E Code of Business Conduct & Ethics
174 CBD Cash before delivery
175 CBGA Ceramic ball grid array
176 CBP CIM Bridge projct (FCM Philips machine)
177 CC Carbon copy
178 CCA Circuit card assembly
179 CCAPS Circuit card assembly and processing system
180 CCB Change Control Board
181 CCC Command call center or China Customer Center (Dell China Factory/Region)
182 CCD Charge coupled device
183 CCE Customer contact employee
184 CCG Customer Configuration Groups (Common management of part numbers)
185 CCGA Ceramic column grid array
186 CCIMF Communication center intermediate file - text file (on Fuji machines)
187 CCNA Cisco Certified Network Associate
188 CCNM Customer commodity and N.P.I. Management
189 CCRP Customer complaint resolution process
190 CD Can Do
191 CDA Confidential disclosure agreement
192 CDQ Customer Quality Data
193 CDRH Center for Devices and Radiological Health
194 CD-ROM Compact disk - read only memory
195 CDT Corporate deployment team
196 CEAO West African Economic Community
197 CEEAC Economic Community of Central African States
198 CEFTA Central European Free Trade Agreement (originally-Visegrad Three)
199 CEO Chief executive officer
200 CEPGL Economic Community of the Great Lakes Countries
201 CFC Chloro Fluoro Carbons
202 cfh Cubic feet per hour
203 cfm Cubic feet per minute
204 CFM Continuous flow manufacturing
205 CFT Customer focus team or Centre for manufacturing technology
206 CFT Cross Functional Team
207 CGA Column grid array
208 CH. PPD. Charges prepaid
209 CHEVROLET Can Hear Every Valve Rap On Long Extended Trips
210 CHEVROLET Cheap, Hardly Efficient, Virtually Runs On Luck Every Time
211 CHIP Ceramic capacitors or resistors
212 CI Cost, insurance
213 CIA Cash in advance
214 CIC Condensation inert curing
215 CIF Cost, insurance, freight
216 CIH Condensation inert heating
217 CILSS Permanent Inter-State Committee on Drought Control in the Sahei
218 CIM Computer integrated manufacturing
219 CIS Condensation inert soldering
220 CIS Commonwealth of Independent States
221 CKDB Component knowledge data base
222 CLC Closed loop calibration (FCM Philips machines)
223 CLCA Closed loop corrective action
224 CLCC Ceramic leaded chi carrier
225 CLCP Closed loop corrective action
226 CLIP Confirmed line item performance
227 CLM Compact laser modules (FCM Philips machines)
228 CLS Celestica (Solectron's competitor)
229 CM Contract manufacturers
230 CMA Circuit mil area
231 CMC Capacity management committee
232 CMD Circuit mode data
233 CMO Chief Materials Officer
234 CMOS Complimentary metal oxide semiconductor
235 CNC Computer numerical control
236 CND Conform non defect
237 CO Change order
238 COA Cost of acquisition

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239 COB Card on board or Chip on board
240 COC Certificate of compliance
241 COCOM Co-ordinating Committee for Multilateral Export Controls
242 COD Consumed oxygen demand or Cash on delivery
243 COE Center of excellence
244 COF Chip on flex
245 COG Center of gravity (S.I.M.S.)
246 COGS Cost of goods sold
247 COM Computer output to microfilm
248 CON Configuration file (on FCM Philips machines)
249 COO Country of origin
250 COO Chief Operating Officer
251 COS Cash on shipment
252 CP Process capability index or Chip placement
253 CPA Critical Path Analysis
254 CPBGA Cavity plastic ball grid array
255 CPC Customer Project Code
256 CPCN Cost procurement
257 CPE Certificate of Proficiency in English
258 CPFF Cost Plus Fixed Fee
259 CPI Continuous process improvement
260 CPI Cost Performance Index (EVA term)
261 CPIF Cost Plus Incentive Fee
262 CpK Adjusted process capability index (Capability performance)
263 CPL Capability performance - lower
264 CPM Customer program manager
265 CPM Critical Path Method
266 CPN Customer part number
267 CPU Central processing unit
268 CQFP Ceramic quad flat pack
269 CQM Center of quality management
270 CR Carriage Return
271 CRF Component request form
272 CRM Customer Relationship Management
273 CRR Customer reject return
274 CRT Cathode ray tube
275 CS Customer service
276 CS Control site
277 CSA Customer satisfaction assessment or Canada standards Assn.
278 CSCE Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe
279 CSCM Customer supply chain management
280 CSD Committed ship date
281 CSE Customer support engineer
282 CSI Customer satisfaction index
283 CSM Customer satisfaction management
284 CSP Chip scale package
285 CSS Canadian safety standard
286 CTB Clear to build
287 CTE Coefficient of thermal expansion
288 CTEC Certified Technical Education Center
289 CTF Critical to function
290 CTO Configure to order
291 CTP Composite theoretical performance (used for export compliance)
292 CTR Cycle time reduction
293 CV Cost Variance (EVA term)
294 CVR Colour Variance Request
295 CVS Customer Value Stream
296 CVT Component verification and tracking
297 CWK Chan Wah KONG
298 CWO Cash with order
299 D Diameter
300 D/A Documents against acceptance, documents attached
301 D/D Draft on demand
302 D/P Documents against payment
303 DAC Digital to analog converter
304 DARM Defect analysis & reduction methods
305 DAT Digital audio tape
306 dB Decibel
307 DBC Direct bonded copper
308 DBR Daily business review
309 DC Document control or DFA / BMS controller (FCM Philips machines)
310 DCA Direct chip attach or Daily corrective action
311 DCE Dicloroethylene
312 DCF Discounted Cash Flow
313 DCP Dynamic Control Plan (Dimensional Control Plan)
314 DCT Digital cordless telephone
315 DD Data Date
316 DDE Dynamic data exchange
317 DDU Delivery duty unpaid
318 DECT Digital enhanced cordless telephone
319 DEF DEMANDE D’ESSAI EN FABRICATION (PHILIPS)
320 DEK DirEKt imaging

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321 DEM Dynamic enterprise modeler
322 DFA Dynamic fiducial alignment (FCM Philips machines)
323 DFM Design for manufacturability
324 DFMA Design for manufacturability and assembly
325 DFMEA Design Failure Mode and Effects Analysis
326 DFT Design for testability
327 DFX Design for whatever
328 DHL (Adrian) Dalsey, (Larry) Hillblom, and (Robert) Lynn (courier company) or Deliver Halfway Lost
329 diam Diameter
330 DIL Dual inline
331 DIN Deutches Institut fur Normung (World wide level 2 connector)
332 DIP Dual inline package
333 DISCRETE A passive analog component, i.e. capacitor, resistor, inductor or diode
334 DLL Dynamic link library
335 DMA Direct memory access
336 DMD Data management and documentation (Solectron Germany)
337 DMR Defective material reject
338 DNC Direct numerical control
339 DOC Department for communications
340 DOD Department of Defense
341 DODGE Drips Oil, Drops Grease Everywhere
342 DOE Design of experiments
343 DOR Dropped on request
344 DOS Days of supply or Disk operating system
345 DPM Defects per million
346 DPMO Defects per million opportunities
347 DPPM Defective parts per million
348 DPU Defects per unit
349 DRAM Dynamic random access memory
350 DRC Design rule checking
351 DRRP Disaster response and recovery plan
352 DSC Debt Service Coverage
353 DSI Days of saleable inventory
354 DSM Dynamic setup management
355 DSO Days sales outstanding
356 DSP Digital signal processor
357 DSR Digital storage and retrieval
358 DT Demand de travaille (Wavecom)
359 DT Deutsche Telecom
360 DTM Digital torque meter
361 DTS Dock to stock
362 DU Duration
363 DUT Device under test
364 DVD Digital video disk or digital versatile disk
365 DVM Digital voltmeter
366 DVP&R Design Verification Plan and Report
367 DVR Destination Variance Request
368 DVT Design verification test
369 E & OE Errors and omissions excepted
370 E and O Excess and Obsolete
371 EAC Estimate at Completion
372 EAN European article numbering
373 EBOM Engineering bill of material
374 EBRD European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
375 EC Engineering change
376 ECA Economic Commission for Africa
377 ECAD Electronic computer aided design
378 ECAR External corrective action request
379 ECAT Electronic card assembly and test (acronym used by and for I.B.M. P.C.B.)
380 ECC Engineering change control or Employee Communication Committee
381 ECCB Electronic Component Certification Board
382 ECCN Export compliance control number
383 ECE Economic Commission for Europe
384 ECF Engineering Change File
385 ECL Emitter coupled logic
386 ECLAC Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean
387 ECN Engineering change notice
388 ECO Engineering change order
389 ECOWAS Economic Community of West African States
390 ECR Engineering change request
391 ECU Environmental control unit (M.P.M.)
392 EDA Electronic design automation
393 EDC Engineering date code
394 EDC Eau de cologne
395 EDF Electronic design interchange format
396 EDFI Error detection and fault isolation capability of product
397 EDI Electronic data exchange for placing P.O.s and forecasting
398 EDM Engineering data management
399 EDP Eau de parfume
400 EDT Eau de toilette
401 EEA European Economic Area
402 EEPROM Electronically erasable programmable read only memory

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403 EET Earliest Event Time
404 EFD Earliest Finish Date
405 EFR External Failure Rate
406 EFT Earliest Finish Time
407 EFTA European Free Trade Association
408 EH&S Environmental health and safety
409 EIA Electronic industries association
410 EIAJ Electronics Industry Association in Japan
411 EIB European Investment Bank
412 EIS Engineering information system
413 ELA Entry Level Automatic
414 ELO Enabling learning objective (on FCM Philips machines)
415 EMC Electromagnetic compatibility
416 EMF Electromotive force or European Manufacturing Facility (for DELL (Limeric, Ireland))
417 EMI Electromagnetic interference
418 EMO Emergency Off
419 EMP Electromagnetic pulse
420 EMPF Electronics Manufacturing Productivity Facility
421 EMPI Electronic manufacturing process instruction
422 EMS Environmental Management System
423 EMT Electronic manufacturing technology
424 EOD End of data
425 EOE End of effective, work center implementation commit date
426 EOF End of file
427 EOL End of life
428 EOS Employee opinion survey
429 EP&J Electronic packaging & joining
430 EPA Environmental protection agency
431 EPA Electrostatic Protected Area
432 EPB Emergency Push Button
433 EPD Electrical proximity detector (FCM Philips machines)
434 EPK Econopak
435 EPP Employee preparedness program
436 EPROM Erasable programmable read only memory
437 EPST Earliest Possible Start Time
438 ERP Enterprise requirements plan
439 ERS Engineering requirements specification
440 ESA European Space Agency
441 ESCAP Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific
442 ESCWA Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia
443 ESD Electrostatic discharge
444 ESD Earliest Start Date
445 ESI Employee satisfaction index or Early Supplier Involvement
446 ESPP Employee Stock Purchase Program
447 ESR Engineering shift report
448 ESS Environmental stress screening (thermal or physical) - all parts testing.
449 EST Environmental stress test - sample test
450 EST Earliest Start Time
451 ETC Estimate To Complete
452 EU European Union
453 EVA Earned Value Analysis
454 EVT Engineering verification test
455 F/N Fichier neutre (term is used on Sagem account)
456 F/T Functional test
457 F4G Fuji fourth generation
458 FA Failure analysis or Fixed asset
459 FAA Federal Aviation Administration
460 FAC Forced air convection
461 FAI First article inspection
462 FAIL Fixed asset in leasing
463 FAQ Frequently asked questions or Free alogside quay
464 FAR Failure analysis report
465 FAS Free alongside ship
466 FATF File allocation table file or Fabmaster ASCII transfer format
467 FC & S Free of capture and seisure
468 FCC Federal communications commissions (U.S.A.)
469 FCE First Certificate in English
470 FCM Fast component mounter
471 FCM II Fast component mounter mark II
472 FCS First customer ship
473 FCT Functional card test or Flip chip technology
474 FCU Furnace Control Unit
475 FDA Federal drug and alcohol commission
476 FEA Finite element analysis
477 FED Field emission displays
478 FEM Finite element modeling
479 FET Field effect transistor
480 FF Finish-To-Finish (type of task relationship in Microsoft Project)
481 FF Free Float
482 FFA Fixed fiducial alignment (FCM Philips machines)
483 FGI Finished goods inventory
484 FH Fixture head

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485 FHM For him magazine
486 FIAT Failure in Italian Automotive Technology
487 FIAT Fix It All the Time
488 FIAT Fix it again, Tony!
489 FIFO First in - first out
490 FILO First in - last out
491 FIP Fuji interlaced placer or Fiche d'instruction de post (Sagem)
492 FIS Factory information system
493 FLEX Flextronics (Solectron's competitor)
494 FLS Front Line State
495 FLSA Fair labor standard's act
496 FLT Full liquidus temperature
497 FMA Failure Mode Analysis
498 FMEA Failure mode and effects analysis
499 FMI Foreign Machine Interface (DeK machine)
500 FNET Finish No Earlier Than (semi-flexible constraint in Microsoft Project)
501 FNLT Finish No Later Than (semi-flexible constraint in Microsoft Project)
502 FOB Free on board
503 FOP Fineness of print (stencil)
504 FORD Fix or repair daily
505 FORD First On Recall Day
506 FORD First On Rust and Deterioration
507 FORD Found On Road, Dead
508 FORD Fault Of R&D
509 FORD Fast Only Rolling Downhill
510 FORD Features O.J. and Ron's DNA
511 FOV Field of vision
512 FOW Free on waggon
513 FP Fine pitch
514 FP Factory Planner
515 FPBGA Fine pitch ball grid array
516 FPF First pass fail
517 FPGA Field programmable gate array
518 FPP First pass pass
519 FPT Fine pitch technology
520 FQ Fine theta (on CP6 Fuji machines)
521 FQP Fuji compact placer
522 FR Failure rate
523 FRU Field replaceable unit
524 FRY For your reference
525 FS Finish-To-Start (type of task relationship in Microsoft Project)
526 FT Functional test
527 FTC First Time Capability
528 FTIR Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy
529 FTP File transfer protocol
530 FVS Functional Verification (Test)
531 FVT Functional verification test
532 FYE For your education
533 FYI For your information
534 FZ Franc Zone
535 G/A General average
536 G/L General ledger
537 G-3 Group of Three
538 G-7 Group of Seven
539 G-8 Group of Eight
540 GA General availability
541 GAAP Generally accepted accounting principles
542 GaAs Gallium arsenide
543 GALI Global American Language Institute
544 GAM Global account manager
545 GAP General administrative procedure
546 GASC Global Account Supply Chain 
547 GBP Great Britain pound
548 GCC Gulf Co-operation Council
549 GDF Generic data file
550 GEM Generic Equipment Model
551 GenCAD Generic CAD format (on FCM Philips machines)
552 Geplacea Group of Latin American and Caribbean Sugar Exporting Countries
553 GERT Graphical Evaluation and Review Technique
554 GIF Graphics interchange format
555 GIGO Garbage input garbage output
556 GM General manager
557 GM General Maintenance
558 GMC Garage Man's Companion
559 GMC Got A Mechanic Coming?
560 GPA Graphics port accelerator
561 GPA Grade Point Average
562 GPA Gas Processors Association
563 GPA Gas Producers Association
564 GPA Gay Pilots Association
565 GPA General Partitioning Algorithm
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567 GPA Geophysical Altimeter
568 GPA Georgia Association of Planetariums
569 GPA Gigapascal
570 GPA Government Property Administrator
571 GPA Governmental and Public Affairs
572 GPA Graphics Performance Accelerator
573 GPA Green Point Average
574 GPA Guidance Platform Assembly
575 GPM General purpose module (FCM Philips machines)
576 GPRS General Packet Radio Service
577 GPS General power supply or Global positioning system
578 GR&R Gage Repeatability & Reproductibility
579 GSBU Global Services Business Unit
580 GSM Global System for Mobile Communications
581 GSP Generalized system of preferences (trade agreement)
582 GUI Graphical user interface
583 GWS Gabriel Wilhelm Sohlberg
584 H/L Handload
585 H/P Hand phone
586 HAL Hot air leveling
587 HALT Highly accelerated lifetime test
588 HAP Heated Air Plenum
589 HASL Hot air solder leveling - raw P.W.B. surface finish
590 HASS High acceleration stress screening
591 HCB High complexity board
592 HCFC Hydro Chloro Fluoro Carbons
593 HDI High-Density Interconnect
594 HDTV High density television
595 HFC Hydro Fluoro Carbons
596 HFE Hydro Fluoro Ethers
597 HMU Hot muck-up
598 HMV Hot Mock-up Verification (Test)
599 HONDA Had One Never Did Again
600 HOSHIN Top down objective tracking (C.E.O. through sites)
601 HP Hewlett Packard
602 HPU Hours per unit
603 HR Human resources
604 HS Health & safety
605 HT Handy terminal (Fuji machines)
606 HTS Code Harmonized traffic system
607 HVSD High volume systems division
608 HYUNDAI Hope You Understand Nothing's Driveable And Inexpensive...
609 I - NUB Increase netable unit build
610 I/O Input / Output
611 I/O Input / output
612 IALF Item action log form
613 IAW In accordance with
614 IBEC International Bank for Economic Co-operation
615 IBM International business machines
616 IBP Initial business process
617 IBRD International Bank for Reconstruction and Development
618 IC Integrated circuit
619 ICAM Integrated computer aided manufacturing
620 ICAR Internal corrective action request
621 ICB International Competence Baseline
622 ICC International competence center
623 ICC International Chamber of Commerce
624 ICEA Insulated Cable Engineers Association
625 ICFTU International Confederation of Free Trade Unions
626 ICM Interface control module (on Q.P.242 Fuji machines)
627 ICO Islamic Conference Organization
628 ICP Internal control program
629 ICR Internal change revision
630 ICSI Internal customer satisfaction index
631 ICT In-circuit test or Integrated circuit test
632 ID Inner diameter
633 IDB Inter-American Development Bank
634 IDC Insulation displacement connector (contacts pierce conductor insulation)
635 IDL Incremental dirt level
636 IDM Indirect material
637 IEC International Electrotechnical Commission
638 IECQ International Electronic Component Qualification System
639 IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
640 IEPS International Electronic Packaging Society
641 IFB Invitation for Bid
642 IFIR Initial field incident rate
643 IGADD Inter-Government Authority on Drought and Development
644 IL Integration line
645 ILB Inner lead bonding
646 ILS Integrated Logistic Support
647 IM Ingram Micro (Solectron's competitor)
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649 IMC Intermetallic compound
650 IMF International Monetary Fund
651 IMF Industrial Mission Formation
652 InGaAs Indium Gallium Arsenide detector
653 IOC Indian Ocean Commission
654 IORS Individual overtime record sheet
655 IPC Institute for interconnecting and packaging electronic circuits
656 ipm Inches per minute
657 IPMA International Project Management Association
658 IPO Interactive process optimization
659 IQA Incoming quality assurance
660 IQC In-coming quality check
661 IR Infrared
662 IRDs Integrated receivers and decoders
663 IRSI Intelligent Reasoning Systems Inc.
664 IS Information systems
665 ISA Instrument Society of America
666 ISDN Integrated services digital network
667 ISF Intelligent stick feeder
668 ISHM International Society for Hybrid Microelectronics
669 ISO International standards organization
670 ISP Internet Service Provider or Internet Service Purveyor
671 ISST Information services, systems and technology
672 IST In-situation stress test
673 IT Information technology
674 ITF Intelligent tape feeder
675 ITR Inbound Traffic Responsible
676 ITSS Information technology & systems services
677 JBL Jabil Circuit (Solectron's competitor)
678 JD Job description
679 JEDEC Joint Electronic Device Engineering Council
680 JFK John Fitzgerald Kennedy
681 JIT Just in time
682 JOT Just on time
683 JP(E)G Joint photographic experts group
684 JTAG Joint Test Action Group
685 KGB Known good board
686 KGD Known good die
687 KITA Kick in the ass
688 KLT Kheng Loon TAN (K.L. TAN)
689 KO Knock out
690 KPA Key personal analyze
691 L/C Letter of credit
692 LA Laser align (FCM Philips machines)
693 LAM Laser align module (FCM Philips machines)
694 LAN Local area network
695 LAR Lot acceptance rate
696 LAS Laser align system (FCM Philips machines)
697 LC Labor cost
698 LCB Low complexity board
699 LCBC Lake Chad Basin Commission
700 LCC Leadless chip carrier
701 LCCC Leaded ceramic chip carrier
702 LCD Liquid crystal display
703 LCL Lower control limit
704 LCSOC Leadless chip socket
705 LED Light emitting diode
706 LEO Lands exposed only
707 LEP Leading edge procurement
708 LET Latest Event Time
709 LFA Logical Framework Approach
710 LFD Latest Finish Date
711 LFMA Light flexible mechanical assembly
712 LFT Latest Finish Time
713 LGA Land grid array
714 LID Leadless inverted device
715 LIF Low insertion force
716 LIFO Last in - first out
717 LLCC Leadless ceramic chip carrier
718 LLL Laser lead locator (on Fuji machines)
719 LMS Le Mans
720 LN Deutsche Luft und Raumfahrt Norm
721 LOA Letter of authorization
722 LP Low productivity
723 LPST Last Possible Start Time
724 LR Labor revenue
725 LRC Line Readiness Checklist (F-09-0024)
726 LRP Long range plan
727 LSD Latest Start Date
728 LSI Large scale integration
729 LSL Lower specification limit
730 LST Latest Start Time

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731 LT Lead time
732 LTB Last time buy
733 LVHM Low volume high mix
734 M/C Machine (in Fuji manuals)
735 MAP Manufacturing automation protocol
736 MAZDA Most Always Zipping Dangerously Along
737 MBA Master business administration
738 MBB Moisture barrier bag
739 MBNQA Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award
740 MC Mission critical
741 MCAD Mechanical computer aided design
742 MCAE Mechanical computer aided engineering
743 MCB Medium complexity board
744 MCDBA Microsoft Certified Database Administrator
745 MCM Multichip module
746 MCM-C Multi-chip module ceramic
747 MCM-D Multi-chip module deposited
748 MCM-L Multi-chip module laminate
749 MCN Manufacturing Change Note
750 MCOS Material cost of sales
751 MCP Microsoft Certified Professional
752 MCR Master control relay
753 MCS Machine control system (on Fuji machines)
754 MCSD Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer
755 MCSE Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer
756 MCT Manufacturing cycle time or Microsoft Certified Trainer
757 MDA Manufacturing defect analyzer
758 MDB Microsoft data base
759 MDF Manufacturing data format (on FCM Philips machines)
760 MDF Main Distribution Frame
761 MDF Macro-Defect-Free
762 MDF Macular Degeneration Foundation
763 MDF Main Data Feed
764 MDF Main Distribution Frequency
765 MDF Main Distribution(al) Facility
766 MDF Manic Depression Fellowship (UK)
767 MDF Manipulator Development Facility
768 MDF Manual Dial Facility
769 MDF Maritime Defense Force
770 MDF Marketing Development Funds
771 MDF Mason Dixon Farms, Inc. (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania)
772 MDF Master Data File
773 MDF Material Discrepancy Form
774 MDF Materiel Distribution Forecasting
775 MDF Medium Density Fiber
776 MDF Medium Density Fibreboard
777 MDF Mendelsohn Difference Family
778 MDF Mild Detonating Fuse
779 MDF Mission Data Folders
780 MDF Monitor Definition File
781 MDF Morte Di Fame (Italian: Dying of Hunger)
782 MDF Mule Deer Foundation
783 MDF Multiband Direction Finder
784 MDF Multisensor Data Fusion
785 MDI Multi-document interface (on Fuji machines)
786 MDS Mechanical deflection system
787 ME Manufacturing engineer or Mechanical engineer or Mission essential
788 MEA Monoethanol amine
789 MELF Metalized electrode faced transistor
790 MES Manufacturing execution system (floor control systems)
791 MFO Must Finish On (inflexible constraint in Microsoft Project)
792 MFU Multi feeder unit
793 MIL Military
794 miniBGA Mini ball grid array
795 MINT Motion INTerpreter
796 MIR Moisture insulation resistance
797 MIS Manufacturing information systems
798 MIS Manufacturing information system (FCM Philips machines)
799 MLB Multi-layer board
800 MLF Molded, micro or metal Lead Frame devices
801 MLM Multi-layer metal
802 MLPWB Multilayer printed wiring board
803 MMI Man Machine Interface
804 MNR Multiple network resistor
805 MO Money order
806 MOC Microsoft Oficial Curriculum
807 MODAPTS MODular Arrangement of Predetermined Time Standards
808 MOL Maintenance on line
809 MOL Mac on Linux
810 MOL Machine Oriented Language
811 MOL Manned Orbital Laboratory
812 MOL Märkisch-Oderland (region in East Germany)

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813 MOL Maximum Order Limitations
814 MOL Maximum Ordering Limit
815 MOL Maximum Output Level
816 MOL Method of Layers
817 MOL Minimum Operating Level
818 MOL Molde, Norway - Aro (Airport Code)
819 MOL Mole
820 MOL More Or Less
821 MOP Method Of Potentials
822 MOS Metal oxide semiconductor
823 MOSFET Metal-oxide semiconductor field effect transistor
824 MOUS Microsoft Office User Specialist
825 MPE Manufacturing project engineer or Manufacturing product engineer
826 MPEG Moving pictures expert group
827 MPG Machine program generator
828 MPI Manufacturing process instruction
829 MPM Manufacturing printing machine
830 MPN Manufacturer part number
831 MPP Manufacturing production plan
832 MPRE Manufacturing product engineer
833 MPS Material planning system or Master production schedule
834 MPX Multiplex channel (on Q.P.242 Fuji machine)
835 MQS Material quotation system
836 MR Magneto resistive
837 MRB Material review board
838 MRO Maintenance, repair, operation
839 MRP Material requirements planning
840 MS Material shortage
841 MSCC Material supply chain cost
842 MSCM Material supply chain manager
843 MSD Moisture sensitive device
844 MSI Medium scale integration (up to 1000 transistors)
845 MSL Moisture sensitive level
846 MSO Must Start On (inflexible constraint in Microsoft Project)
847 MSRP Modeling simulation and rapid prototyping
848 MTBF Mean time before failure or Mean time between failure
849 MTOPS Millions of theoretical operations per seconds
850 MTTF Mean time to failure
851 MTTR Mean time to repair
852 MTU Multi tray unit
853 MTX Mobile Telephone eXchange
854 MUP Multi user pipette (FCM Philips machines)
855 MVC Most vulnerable component
856 MVI Manual visual inspection
857 N/A Not applicable
858 N/C Numerical control
859 NACC North Atlantic Co-operation Council
860 NADCAP National Aerospace and Defense Contractors Accreditation Procedures
861 NAFTA North American Free Trade Agreement
862 NAM Non-aligned Movement
863 NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration
864 NAT Nozzle arrangement table (Fuji machines)
865 NATO North Atlantic Treaty Organization
866 NAY Not available yet
867 NBS National Bureau of Standards
868 NC Nozzle changer (on Fuji machines)
869 NCB National Competence Baseline
870 NCM Non conforming material
871 NCT Nozzle center test
872 NDF No defect found
873 NDT Non-destructive testing
874 NEL NatSteel (Solectron's competitor)
875 NEMA National Electrical Manufactures Association
876 NEMI National Electronics Manufacturing Initiative
877 NFF No Fault Found
878 NFPA National Fire Protection Association
879 NG No good (on S.M.T. Fuji machines)
880 NIBBLE String of 4 bits = ½ BYTE
881 NIC Network interface card
882 NIS National Institute of Standards
883 NIST National Fire Protection Association
884 nMOS n-Type Metal oxide silicon
885 NMR Normal mode rejection
886 NORD NO Reference Designator
887 nPB n-Propyl bromide
888 NPI New products introduction
889 NPN Non intelligent part number
890 NPV Net Present Value

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