--- title: "Key Term Tuesday: Quality Acronyms" description: Acronyms can be hard to keep track of, so we’ve compiled a list of some of the most commonly used ones to help you out. image: https://blog.aiag.org/hs-fs/hub/385656/file-2322234202.jpg --- [![White AIAG Logo - Uniting Minds.Elevating Standards.](https://blog.aiag.org/hs-fs/hubfs/White%20AIAG%20Logo%20-%20Uniting%20Minds.Elevating%20Standards..png?width=254&height=76&name=White%20AIAG%20Logo%20-%20Uniting%20Minds.Elevating%20Standards..png)](http://www.aiag.org/) [< Back to Blog Listings](https://blog.aiag.org/) # Key Term Tuesday: Quality Acronyms by [AIAG](https://blog.aiag.org/author/aiag) | Mar 24, 2015 ![CTKeyTerms4](https://blog.aiag.org/hs-fs/hub/385656/file-2322234202.jpg) Acronyms can look like alphabet soup, so we’ve compiled a list of some of the most commonly used acronyms to help you out. **APQP** (Advanced Product Quality Planning) What it means: A structured method of defining and establishing the steps necessary to assure that a product satisfies the customer. **CPK** (Process Capability Index) What it means: The adjustment of process capability for the effect of non-centered distribution. **MSA** (Measurement Systems Analysis) What it means: A collection of tools which seek to identify the components of variation in measurement devices **OEM** (Original Equipment Manufacturer) What it means: An original equipment manufacturer or OEM is typically a company which uses a component made by a second company in its own product, or sells the product of the second company under its own brand **PSW** (Part Submission Warrant) What it means: An industry-standard document required for all newly tooled or revised products in which the organization confirms that inspections and tests on production parts show conformance to customer requirements. **SPC** (Statistical Process Control) What it means: The use of statistical techniques such as control charts to analyze a process or its output so as to take appropriate actions to achieve and maintain a state of statistical control and to improve the process capability. 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