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  2. Lights out (manufacturing) - Wikipedia

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    Lights-out manufacturing is the methodology of fully automating the production of goods at factories and other industrial facilities, such as to require no human presence on-site. Many of these factories are considered to be able to run "with the lights off," but few run exclusively lights-out production.

  3. Turnaround (refining) - Wikipedia

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    A turnaround (TAR) is a scheduled event wherein an entire process unit of an industrial plant, such as a refinery, petrochemical plant, power plant, or paper mill, is taken offstream for an extended period for work to be carried out.

  4. Offshoring - Wikipedia

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    According to the 1913 New York Times article "Near Source of Supplies the Best Policy", [9] the main focus was then on "cost of production." Although transportation cost was addressed, they did not choose among: transporting supplies to place of production [10] transporting finished goods to place(s) of sale; cost and availability of labor

  5. Glossary of oilfield jargon - Wikipedia

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    Elevator: A hinged mechanism that is closed around the drill pipe, or other tubular components, to facilitate lowering them into or lifting them out of the wellbore. Finger: A Finger is a person that has been in the field long enough to no longer be a worm but is not smart enough to be considered a Hand. i.e. Drill Finger, Frac Finger.

  6. End-of-life product - Wikipedia

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    All users can continue to access discontinued products, but cannot receive security updates and technical support. The time-frame after the last production date depends on the product and relates to the expected product lifetime from a customer's point of view. Different lifetime examples include toys from fast food chains (weeks or months ...

  7. Glossary of winemaking terms - Wikipedia

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    A method of straw wine production that involves drying bunches of grapes in a special room in order to dehydrate them and concentrate flavors. In some circumstances the grapes maybe left on the vine to dry out in a method similar to the French technique of passerillage. Pasteurization

  8. Factors of production - Wikipedia

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    In economics, factors of production, resources, or inputs are what is used in the production process to produce output—that is, goods and services. The utilized amounts of the various inputs determine the quantity of output according to the relationship called the production function .

  9. Remanufacturing - Wikipedia

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    It requires the repair or replacement of worn out or obsolete components and modules. Parts subject to degradation affecting the performance or the expected life of the whole are replaced. Remanufacturing is a form of a product recovery process that differs from other recovery processes in its completeness: a remanufactured machine should match ...