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Batch

Meaning in industrial engineering & manufacturing, with examples

/bætʃ/nounCore term

In industrial engineering & manufacturing, batch means: A group of identical products made together in one production run, often with one batch number so it can be traced later.

In Turkish: parti, lot

How it is used

Used in production, quality and traceability. Plants produce in batches, and quality releases, holds or rejects a batch. Batch size is a key planning choice: large batches mean fewer changeovers but more inventory. 'Lot' is used in a very similar way.

Example sentences

  1. Batch 4471 is on hold until the lab results come back.

  2. We reduced the batch size from 2,000 to 500 pieces after shortening the changeover.

Common collocations

  • batch size
  • batch number
  • release a batch
  • batch production
  • in batches
  • setup timeThe time needed to prepare a machine or line to produce a different product, from the last good part of one job to the first good part of the next.
  • SMEDShort for single-minute exchange of die: a method for cutting changeover time to under ten minutes by doing as much setup work as possible while the machine is still running.
  • work in progressProducts that have been started but are not finished yet, such as parts waiting between machines. Often shortened to WIP.
  • inventoryAll the materials and products a company holds: raw materials, parts, work in progress and finished goods waiting to be sold.

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