Glossary: AI, data and manufacturing, briefly explained
The terms that appear on this website and in every AI project in mid-sized industry, in a sentence or two. Each entry links to the page that covers it in depth.
- AI literacy
- Under the AI Act, deployers must ensure that their staff have sufficient knowledge for dealing with AI systems, in force since February 2025. Learn more
- Analysis copy
- A copy of the required data on your server in which columns containing personal data are masked. Tools are built and checked on it. Learn more
- Anonymisation
- Changing data so that a person can no longer be identified, even with reasonable effort. Anonymous data does not fall under the GDPR. Harder to achieve than often assumed. Learn more
- BDE
- Betriebsdatenerfassung (shop-floor data capture): recording quantities, times and statuses in manufacturing, for example via terminals at the line. Learn more
- CAQ
- Computer Aided Quality: software for quality management, such as inspection planning, inspection data and complaints. Learn more
- Contribution margin
- Revenue minus variable costs, in stages also minus attributable fixed costs. Shows what a customer, item or order contributes to covering the remaining costs. Learn more
- Data as-of
- The point in time up to which a tool’s data reaches. Onagero shows it above every view. Learn more
- Data map
- The directory in which Onagero describes your tables, columns, meanings and relationships, including the origin and review status of every column. Learn more
- Data processing (Art. 28)
- Processing of personal data by a service provider on behalf of the controller. Requires a contract under Art. 28 GDPR. Learn more
- Language model
- An AI model that understands and generates text. In Onagero it helps build the tools and answer questions; calculations run without a model. Learn more
- Lead time
- The time from the start to the end of an order, for example from order receipt to shipment. Made up of processing and waiting times. Learn more
- Live view
- The view of your data from which a released tool reads, with the same shape as the analysis copy, but only to the permitted extent. Learn more
- Masking
- Technical measure in which names and other attributes in data are left empty, replaced or altered. Reduces risk but does not automatically make data anonymous. Learn more
- MES
- Manufacturing Execution System: software for controlling and monitoring manufacturing between ERP and machine. Learn more
- Model provider
- The company that operates the language model. With Onagero the model runs there, not on your server. Learn more
- OEE
- Overall Equipment Effectiveness: the product of availability, performance and quality. Defined slightly differently in every plant. Learn more
- On-premise
- Running software on your own servers instead of at the vendor. The term can refer to the platform, the language model or both. Learn more
- On-time delivery
- Share of deliveries that arrive on the agreed date, under a defined rule for tolerance and partial deliveries. Learn more
- Pilot
- At Onagero, the start: one real problem with real data, solved in a few weeks and measured against the agreed goal. After that the team keeps building on the same platform. Learn more
- Pseudonymisation
- Processing after which data can no longer be attributed to a person without separately stored additional information (Art. 4(5) GDPR). Pseudonymised data remains personal data. Learn more
- Role
- A setting that determines who may see or change a tool and which section of the data it shows for that person. Learn more
- Setup time
- The time needed to change a machine over from one item to the next, for example during a tool change. Learn more
- Test stage
- The stage in which a newly built application runs on masked data until a responsible person releases it for production. Learn more
- Waiting time
- Time during which an order waits between two processing steps. Often the largest, least visible part of the lead time. Learn more
- Workflow
- A named, recurring process with a responsible person, for example the monthly report for management. Often the starting point for the first solution with Onagero. Learn more
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