Glossary
PROMISLingua has a very innovative approach which requires a common understanding and a common nomenclature. The following section presents a list of specialist words and their definitions
- Act
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‘Act’ forms the fourth final stage of the PDCA natural improvement cycle. Using information obtained from the previous stages to improve processes or performance in the future.
Source: PROMIS@Service Sarl
- Actions (dynamics) B2
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Actions that have been identified to implement plans, objectives, corrective and preventive changes. Allows assignment of responsibilities (including delegation of parts), prioritisation, and reporting.
Source: PROMIS@Service Sarl
- Container
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A myPROMIS Container is an element at the top of, or within, a container tree, and which contains or is capable of containing further containers or objects.
Source: PROMIS@Service Sarl
- Do
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‘Do’ forms the second stage of the PDCA natural improvement cycle. Implementation of the plan.
Source: PROMIS@Service Sarl
- Dynamics
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Dynamics requires a cine or movie camera to record it because it is time related. Dynamics includes elements (containers) A1 to A6.
Source: PROMIS@Service Sarl
- Events (dynamics) B3
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Events are transformation that have occurred or are planned to occur and are related to real time.
Events may occupy a time line that includes now and stretches into the past and into the future.
Source: PROMIS@Service Sarl
- Infrastructure (structure) A4
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Land, facilities, plant, machinery, equipment (including personal protective equipment), apparatus, vehicles, spare components, working animals.
Source: PROMIS@Service Sarl
- Integrated Management
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Integrated Management is the understanding and effective direction of every aspect of an organisation so that the needs and expectations of all stakeholders are equitably satisfied by the best use of all resources.
Source: UK Chartered Quality Institute -Integrated Management Special Intertest Group - Ian Dalling etal.
- Module
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A module is a defined section of PROMIS. Modules can contain sub-modules.
Source: PROMIS@Service Sarl
- Plan
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‘Plan’ forms the first stage of the PDCA natural improvement cycle.
Planning establishes the objectives to be achieved and the processes and related structural elements required to achieve them. Source: PROMIS@Service
- PROMISLingua®
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PROMISLingua® is the co-funded European project aiming at the translation, localisation and implementation of the existing PROMIS® online service (at the moment available in English, German and Italian) in additional six languages (Spanish, French, Portuguese, Greek, Romanian and Hungarian) in order to shorten the time-to-market of PROMIS® and deliver a cost-efficient and easy-to-use Internet based service for Safety, Health, Environment and Quality (SHEQ) management by SMEs and their consultants via multilingual translation and innovative support services. To support the market entry of PROMIS® in 6 additional countries, the PROMIS® technology system will be enhanced and customised to multiple languages with online automated translation systems, Machine Translation, structuring of content, information retrieval.
Source: PROMIS@Service
- Pyramid (Knowledge Repository)
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Pyramid (Knowledge Repository), is the tool to structure, filter and share knowledge from a sector (e.g. Pharma) and/or theme (e.g. Industrial Safety) and/or domain (e.g. Maintenance), which may be prepared and organized by institutions, associations and experts in standard categories or entirely according to the expert’s own choice. Consultants can, for example, use the pyramid to structure their own expertise, as well as to provide links to particular selected content, which they consider interesting or important for their own clients.
Source: PROMIS@Service
