Glossary
Machine Feeder Terms & Vocabulary
15 essential machine feeder terms with plain-English definitions: the vocabulary you’ll hear in training and on day one.
Key machine feeder vocabulary
These 15 terms come up constantly in machine feeder training, on the job and in interviews. Knowing them helps you follow instructions, document accurately and sound prepared.
- Blank
- Raw piece.
- Conveyor
- Moving belt.
- Defect
- Flaw.
- E-stop
- Emergency stop.
- Feeder
- Loads machines.
- First article
- First part checked before a run.
- Jam
- Stuck material.
- Line rate
- Speed of the line.
- Lockout/tagout
- Energy isolation before servicing.
- Offbearer
- Removes products.
- Pallet
- Platform.
- PPE
- Personal protective equipment.
- Scrap
- Parts that fail inspection.
- SOP
- Standard operating procedure.
- Stacking pattern
- How products are stacked.
Practice these terms
Test yourself with the free Machine Feeder practice test: it includes vocabulary questions built from this list. For a complete course, see Machine Feeder training.
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