in real time, as it occurs, status changes such as work computed, operational problem, priority changes, updates the entire factory floor automatically rescheduling ALL operations for ALL released jobs to reflect those changes.

Electronic Data Interchange is a standard for automated exchange of business documents that allows purchasers and suppliers to exchange digital paperwork, such as purchase orders, invoices and other business documents, and to perform electronic funds transfers.

Electrically Eraseable Programmable Read Only Memory.

Equipment identification system

A condition whereby employees have the authority to make decisions and take action on their own without prior approval.

A feedback device that translates mechanical motion into electrical signals indicative of actuator position. Incremental and absolute encoders are common varieties; as the names imply, their output indicates incremental or absolute changes of position.

interface through which an application program provides information to people.

Enterprise Resource Planning is recognized as a logistical extension of MRP.