Glossary
Production Helper Terms & Vocabulary
15 essential production helper terms with plain-English definitions: the vocabulary you’ll hear in training and on day one.
Key production helper vocabulary
These 15 terms come up constantly in production helper training, on the job and in interviews. Knowing them helps you follow instructions, document accurately and sound prepared.
- 5S
- Workplace organization.
- Attendance policy
- Rules on showing up.
- Cross-training
- Learning other jobs.
- Kitting
- Grouping parts.
- Line
- Production line.
- Lockout/tagout
- Energy isolation before servicing.
- Pallet
- Platform for goods.
- Pallet jack
- Moves pallets.
- PPE
- Personal protective equipment.
- Scrap
- Waste.
- Shift handoff
- Passing info to the next shift.
- SOP
- Standard operating procedure.
- Staging
- Placing materials ready.
- Takt time
- Production pace.
- Temp-to-hire
- Staffing path to a permanent job.
Practice these terms
Test yourself with the free Production Helper practice test: it includes vocabulary questions built from this list. For a complete course, see Production Helper training.
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