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PROD (seafloor drill)
PROD (Portable Remotely Operated Drill) is a robotic seabed drilling and geotechnical testing system developed in Sydney, Australia, operated commercially by Benthic Geotech since the late 1990s.
ProDigi
ProDigi was an open-reel professional digital audio tape format with stationary heads, introduced by Mitsubishi Electric in 1982; its 32-track machines became a studio standard before the format declined in the mid-1990s.
Prodigy (online service)
Prodigy, also known as Prodigy Internet, was an American consumer online service run from 1988 to 2001, one of the three major services of the early 1990s alongside CompuServe and America Online.
Producer–consumer problem
The producer–consumer problem, also called the bounded-buffer problem, is a classic concurrent programming problem in which producers fill a shared buffer that consumers drain, requiring synchronization.
Product data management
Product data management (PDM) is the software and practice of organizing CAD files, drawings, bills of materials, and revisions in a central repository, so engineers work from current product information.
Product design
Product design is the iterative engineering process that converts requirements into a validated, manufacturing-ready product, using trade studies, prototyping, and testing, with formal variants like FDA design controls.
Product lifecycle
The product lifecycle is the sequence of stages a product passes through from conception to final disposal, with distinct marketing models and engineering models of its phases.
Product of exponentials formula
The product of exponentials formula, introduced by Roger Brockett in 1984, expresses the forward kinematics of an open-chain robot as a product of matrix exponentials of joint screw axes.
Product quantization
Product quantization is a lossy vector compression method for approximate nearest-neighbor search that splits high-dimensional vectors into subvectors quantized separately, storing each as a short code from which distances are estimated.
Product recall
A product recall, also known as a safety recall, is an action by a firm to remove or correct a defective or unsafe product, usually voluntarily.
Product recovery (reverse logistics)
Product recovery is the set of activities collecting used products from customers and returning them to economic use through reuse, repair, refurbishment, remanufacturing, or recycling within reverse logistics.
Product requirements document
A product requirements document (PRD) is a working document defining what a product must do, owned by the product manager and used by design, engineering, and quality teams.
Product-service system
A product-service system (PSS) is a business model combining products and services so customers buy use or results instead of owning products, exemplified by Rolls-Royce's Power by the Hour.
Production car speed record
The production car speed record is the highest verified top speed of a street-legal series-production car, with the SSC Tuatara's 455.3 km/h the fastest two-way average.
Production leveling
Production leveling, known in the Toyota Production System as heijunka, evens out production volume and product mix over time so output meets demand while cutting inventories and lead time.
Production logging
Production logging is the set of downhole measurements, run in a producing or injecting well with the well flowing, that shows which zones contribute flow, where water or gas enters, and where leaks or channels exist.
Production planning
Production planning, or production planning and control, is the set of business processes deciding what a manufacturer produces, in what quantities, when, and with which resources.
Production sharing agreement
A production sharing agreement (PSA) is an oil contract where a company finances exploration at its own risk and receives a share of production, pioneered by Indonesia in 1966.
Production system (computer science)
A production system is a rule-based artificial intelligence method in which condition-action rules, working memory, and an interpreter derive new facts, forming the basis of expert systems.
Production tax credit (United States)
The production tax credit (PTC) is a US federal tax credit per kilowatt-hour of electricity from qualified energy resources, created by the Energy Policy Act of 1992.
Products and applications of OpenAI
OpenAI's products are AI applications built on its GPT-family language models, centered on the ChatGPT assistant and a usage-based developer API, extended by image, video, and coding products.
Profertil
Profertil S.A. is an Argentine agro-industrial company producing granulated urea and ammonia at a plant in Ingeniero White, Bahía Blanca, founded in 1996 and one of South America's largest granular urea producers.
Professional Baseball Spirits
Professional Baseball Spirits (プロ野球スピリッツ) is a series of realistic baseball simulation video games by Konami, licensed by Nippon Professional Baseball since the first title in 2004.
Professional Engineer
A Professional Engineer (PE) is an engineer licensed by a government jurisdiction to prepare, sign, and seal engineering plans, a license created to protect public safety.
Professional Engineers Ontario
Professional Engineers Ontario (PEO) is the licensing and regulating body for professional engineering in Ontario, established in 1922 to serve and protect the public interest.
Professional Scrum Master
Professional Scrum Master (PSM) is a family of Scrum Master certifications offered by Scrum.org, an organization founded in 2009 by Ken Schwaber, the co-creator of Scrum. Certifications are earned by passing online assessments at three levels.
Profibus
Profibus (PROcess-FIeld-BUS) is an open fieldbus standard for industrial communication in manufacturing and process automation, developed in Germany in 1987, standardized under IEC 61158, with over 60 million nodes installed worldwide as of 2019.
PROFIdrive
PROFIdrive is the standardized application profile for electric drives on PROFIBUS and PROFINET networks, defining telegrams, parameter access, and a state machine so drives from different manufacturers interoperate.
Profile-guided dynamic recompilation
Profile-guided dynamic recompilation recompiles program code while it runs, using runtime measurements to find hot code paths and optimize them, avoiding the need for a preselected training workload.
Profile-guided optimization
Profile-guided optimization (PGO), also known as feedback-directed optimization (FDO), is a compiler technique that uses data about a program's actual execution to guide optimization decisions like inlining and code layout.