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MANUFACTURED GOODS INDUSTRY [4 records]

Record 1 2018-11-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Occupation Names (General)
  • Engineering
  • Quality Control (Management)
CONT

Quality control engineers work to ensure that manufactured goods meet all safety standards in a given industry.... Quality control engineers are integral parts of production processes in several industries; they document and analyze test results and report the findings to management.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Désignations des emplois (Généralités)
  • Ingénierie
  • Contrôle de la qualité (Gestion)

Spanish

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Record 2 2018-07-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Occupation Names (General)
  • Statistics
  • Industries - General
CONT

Industrial statisticians help build products and deliver services that satisfy customers and increase their company's market share and profit margin. Statisticians help design the best product, guide the transition from design to manufacturing, ensure a consistently excellent product, manage customer satisfaction, and ensure a financially beneficial bottom line. Industry professionals use statistical models for quality control and quality assurance in nearly all manufactured goods.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Désignations des emplois (Généralités)
  • Statistique
  • Industries - Généralités

Spanish

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Record 3 2008-02-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Organizations, Administrative Units and Committees
  • Nuclear Fission Reactors
OBS

The Organization of CANDU Industries(OCI) represents 83 Canadian companies supplying goods & services for CANDU reactors in domestic & export markets. OCI companies provide engineering services & manufactured components for the CANDU industry and although it functions separately from design authorities & utilities, OCI members participates in design, manufacture, construction & commissioning of CANDU plants.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes, unités administratives et comités
  • Réacteurs nucléaires de fission
OBS

L'Association des industries CANDU est formée de 83 entreprises canadiennes fournissant des produits et services destinés à des réacteurs CANDU sur les marchés intérieurs et d'exportation. Les membres de l'association fournissent des services techniques et des composantes usinées pour l'industrie CANDU et, bien que l'Association mène des activités distinctes des responsables de la conception et des services publics, ses membres participent à la conception, à la fabrication, à la construction et à la mise en service de centrales CANDU.

Spanish

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Record 4 2005-11-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Organizations and Associations (Admin.)
  • Trade
DEF

A European medieval association composed of traders interested in international commerce.

CONT

In time the merchant guild gained a monopoly over the entire industry and commerce of the city, supervising the various crafts, and selling, at both wholesale and retail, all the goods manufactured in the city.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et associations (Admin.)
  • Commerce
CONT

Quand une guilde des marchands voit le jour dans une province, elle établit une situation de monopole pour les activités commerciales de la zone et vend ses biens par-delà les mers pour en tirer de juteux bénéfices s'il y a un port et des routes maritimes. La guilde permet de générer de copieux revenus.

OBS

guilde : Association de secours mutuel entre marchands [...] artisans, bourgeois, au moyen âge.

OBS

guilde : Cette graphie, puisée des Rectifications de l'orthographe recommandées par le Conseil supérieur de la langue française, est attestée dans le Petit Robert (2004).

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Organismos y asociaciones (Admón.)
  • Comercio
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