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Analysis of Default Modes, their effects, and their Critical Point. (Analyse des Modes de Défaillance, de leurs Effets, de leur Criticité)

Associacion Española de Fabricantes de Automoviles y Camiones (Spanish equivalent of GALIA ).

Assurance Qualité Fournisseur (Supplier Quality Insurance) . Monitoring tool for the PSA Peugeot Citroën Supplier relationship. The AQF's objective is to contribute to the vehicles' quality control by receiving, from Suppliers, only good parts

Assurance de la Qualité par la Maîtrise du Produit et du Processus Quality Assurance by Product and Process Control.

Technico-industrial development sector constituted by the DINQ (Quality and Innovation Division), the DPTA (Platform, Engineering and Purchasing Division)

Business To Business. Management of the communication techniques and electronic tools used by a firm in its Suppliers and Partners relationships.

Information system which :
Has one or several functionalities
Is dedicated to a function's realisation
Is self-sufficient

Independent car maker with which PSA Peugeot Citroën shares in a specific and durable way the development of the production of automobile components or bases of vehicles for which the effect of size is important. (Renault Fiat, Ford, Toyota, BMW, Mitsubishi)

Completely Knocked Down, vehicle as separated specific parts.

Comité de Liaison des Fournisseurs de l'Automobile. Automotive Suppliers Communication Committee

COde FOuRnisseur, consisting of 6 alphanumeric characters, generated by the Supplier Database of PSA Peugeot Citroën and corresponding to a parent company.

Compensation market - barter - : consists of buying parts, components, objects, etc… in a country according to a reglementary rate (variable by country) in order to compensate the sales of new cars in this country.

Constat Qualité Prestations Simplifié. (Simplified Supply Quality Findings.) These quality scorings are used for the maintenance and equipment suppliers

DEMérite Incidents Fournisseur - Supplier Incident Demerit.
Quality indicator used to appraise the quality of the parts delivered to PSA Peugeot Citroën's plants by its production Suppliers. Qualitative, the DEMIF evaluates the impact of the Supplier' quality faultiness.

Direction Industrielle et Fabrications (Industrial Production Direction)

The Digital Mock-up privileges the simultaneous engineering by giving synthetic information and facilitating the Co-design works between the different people involved in the project.

Platforms, Engineering and Purchasing Division

Evaluation d'Aptitude Qualité Fournisseurs. Supplier Quality capability evaluation.

Set of the Internet applications in the firm's main functions.

Electronic Data Interchange. private exchanges of documents (orders, invoices…) by electronic means, from computer to computer. There is a web version, webEDI working on the same principle.

Virtual meeting place for Suppliers and Customers. These marketplaces are defined by specific rules and infrastructures.

European Network eXchange. European communication net designed for the automotive industry, aiming at reducing production costs and the time for designing new models and introducing them on the market.

Set of technologies enabling a Firm to automate its supply chain and to place orders at its Suppliers via Internet. At PSA Peugeot Citroën's it results in the deployment of the following tools :
Purchases made on-line thanks to the Internet. They are :
On-line auctions
On-line RFQ
On-line catalogs
Purchasing from catalogs

Working perimeter including the operators linked to PSA Peugeot Citroën.

Fédération des Industries Electriques, Electroniques et de Communication. Electrics, Electronics and Communication Industries Federation.

Fédération des industries des équipements pour véhicules.Vehicle equipment Industries Federation.It gathers firms, international groups and small and medium businesses that develop and trade accessories, systems and modules for vehicles' equipment..

Fédération des Industries Mécaniques. Mechanics Industries Federation.

Groupement pour l'Amélioration des Liaisons dans l'Industrie Automobile - the Group for Automotive Industry Link Improvement. Galia is an organization for standardization of exchanges of goods and information created by the French automotive industry in 1984.

Groupement Plasturgie de l'Automobile. Automotive Plastic Industry Group.

Partner that assembles vehicles locally from specific parts delivered by PSA Peugeot Citroën as CKD (Completely Knock-Down) or SP (Separate Parts), by "lots" or "single pieces" and from parts and sub-assembled parts manufactured or bought locally. Under design terms they only provide for the local optimization and integration necessary functions (increasing the number of parts supplied by local companies): IKC, PAN, KARSAN, SOMACA, etc.

Automotive System Engineering (Ingénierie Système Automobile). It is a working method adopted by the DPTA to improve its performances in the design (services, quality costs and time limits) of vehicles increasingly complex.

New Technologies for Information and Communication.

Standard-setting European Organization for the exchanges within the automotive industry.

In the Group, "Platform" covers 2 notions :
A physical reality : it is a basis common to several vehicles of the two marques, called "vehicle basis". It is made up of the understructure, the power train, the transmission, the suspension, wheels and steering and other elements not perceived by the customer (air conditioning, seat frames, …)
A management concept : it is the organisation gathering, in a same direction, the teams in charge of the projects development and of the commercialised vehicles' serial production.

The PLSA is the Partner Logic Security Administrator of a third party company. He manages the access of the users within his company to the private area of the B2B portal of PSA Peugeot Citroën.

Single access point on the Internet or an intranet, allowing the access of a large number of users to a pack of applications.

Part Per Million.Quality indicator used to appraise the quality of the parts delivered to PSA Peugeot Citroën's plants by its production Suppliers. Quantitative, the PPM measures the faulty part rate.

Person in charge of the detailed definition, of the power-trains development for a vehicle's sub-assembly and of the targets achievement concerning his/her perimeter of action (quality, costs, deadlines, weights, process parameters…).

Société des Ingénieurs de l'Automobile. Automotive Engineers Society.

Syndicat National du Caoutchouc et des Polymères. Polymers and Rubber National Syndicate.

The SOD 2002 (Schéma Opérationnel de Développement Operational Development Chart) is the framework within which Group’s products are designed, developed and industrialised.
It is the reference framework for global planning and methods used to carry out vehicle or component projects.

Search of new Suppliers.

Legal entity that has a contract with PSA Peugeot Citroën for supplying automobile parts (series and spare) or applications or equipment and maintenance materials by the same legal entity. A supplier of the Group is known under its SUCO and dealt with by the Acquisitions Department.

Single reference point for the Suppliers or Partners of PSA Peugeot Citroën.

Procurement flow for which firm order is sent in a synchronised way when a vehicle passes by the calling point.

Virtual network enabling the Partners of a same project to conceive and develop a product (plane, car…) in real time.

Zones de Travail en Commun.(Common Work Areas.) Geographical places where the parts and process teams, the suppliers and all the people working on simultaneous engineering of the organic part of the vehicle project are reunited.