Glossary entry (derived from question below)
English term or phrase:
giveaway
English answer:
excess product (see context)
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ohemulen
Oct 2, 2011 06:20
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English term
giveaway
English
Bus/Financial
Manufacturing
In the context of automated production lines, an improvement is to be introduced to help 'reduce scrap, waste, giveaway and increase yields'. I'm looking for the meaning of giveaway, as it doesn't seem to have anything to do with gift items or lower prices.
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5 +9 | Refers to excess product...see explanation | Ty Kendall |
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Oct 3, 2011 10:02: ohemulen changed "Edited KOG entry" from "<a href="/profile/68448">ohemulen's</a> old entry - "giveaway"" to ""Refers to excess product...see explanation""
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Refers to excess product...see explanation
Ok, take Cola for an example. Each bottle should contain 330ml of liquid(cola). On the production line some bottles are filled up to 400, or 450ml of liquid instead. This excess liquid is GIVEAWAY, because they are literally giving it away (since the customer only pays for 330ml).
So the process on the production line is to increase productivity by ensuring that bottles are not overfilled....so that nothing is given away. (i.e. no giveaway)
See the link attached for the same thing explained in a real life case with Muller yogurts.
From link:
"This data enables supervisors to correct the fill heads, to help reduce product giveaway and comply with average weight legislation."
So the process on the production line is to increase productivity by ensuring that bottles are not overfilled....so that nothing is given away. (i.e. no giveaway)
See the link attached for the same thing explained in a real life case with Muller yogurts.
From link:
"This data enables supervisors to correct the fill heads, to help reduce product giveaway and comply with average weight legislation."
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Comment: "Ty, many thanks for this very helpful explanation!"
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