Toyota Production System A coherent manufacturing system based on a.o. KAIZEN, JIT, JIDOKA, Genchi Genbutsu.

Temporary Protected Status. A status allowing residence and employment authorization to the nationals of foreign states, for a period of not less than six months or more than eighteen months, when such state (or states) has been appropriately designated by the Attorney General because of extraordinary and temporary conditions in such state (or states).

Telephone preference service. The TPS is a "do not call" list for UK consumers. It is illegal for call centres in the UK to contact consumers for sales or marketing if they are on this list unless they have permission from the customer to do so. The job of running the TPS service is currently contracted to the DMA.

Temporary Protected Status. Establishes a legislative basis for allowing a group of persons temporary refuge in the United States. Under a provision of the Immigration Act of 1990, the Attorney General may designate nationals of a foreign state to be eligible for TPS with a finding that conditions in that country pose a danger to personal safety due to ongoing armed conflict or an environmental disaster.

Toyota Production System. A manufacturing philosophy that shortens the time between customer order and shipment by eliminating waste.

Temporary Protected Status. refers to allows someone to temporarily stay in the U.S. if they come from certain countries designated by law as experiencing conditions of war or natural disasters. TPS allows someone to live and work in the U.S. temporarily, but does not lead to a green card.

transactions per second. The metric used in evaluating on-line transaction processing system performance. Tps are typically measured under conditions of a specified percentage of standard transactions completed in under a specified response time.

TOYOTA PRODUCTION SYSTEM. A methodology that resulted from over 50 years of Kaizen at Toyota, one of the most successful companies in the world. TPS is built on a foundation of Leveling, with the supporting pillars of Just-in-Time and Jidoka. See also  Gemba Production System.

Transactions Per Second ( TPS) - a metric used to measure database performance.

Toyota Production System. a system developed by Toyota Motor Corp. to provide best quality, lowest cost, and shortest lead time through the elimination of waste. It is often illustrated as a “house” comprised of two pillars: Just-in-time and Jidoka. TPS is maintained and improved thorugh iterations of standardized work and kaizen.

TPS is an ice hockey team in the SM-liiga. They play in Turku, Finland at the Elysée Arena.

Telephone Preference Service. Service for people to register their request not to receive unsolicited telephone calls.

Telephone Preference Service. A service established by the Direct Marketing Association to help reduce the number of unwanted telemarketing calls received by customers. Customers contact their telephone company to register and their details are then removed from lists used by many companies engaged in Direct Marketing.

Telephone Preference Service. Program of the Direct Marketing Association that allows consumers who do not want telemarketing calls to have their names removed from a majority of telemarketers' lists with only one request.

Telephone Preference Service. This is a service that was established by the Direct Marketing Association with the aim of helping to reduce the frequency of unwanted telemarketing calls that customer received. Customers had to contact their telephone company in order to join. Their details were then removed from the lists that many companies engaged in.

Transaction processing system. Information system that processes data generated by the day-to-day transactions of an organization. 10.13-14

TRANSACTION PROCESSING SYSTEMS. Serves the operational level of an organization.

transaction processing system. an information system that processes data arising from the occurrence of business transactions; usually used for daily routine transactions and record-keeping, especially sales, payroll, reservations, shipping, and worker tracking

Transaction processing system. Information system that captures and processes data from day-to-day business activities; among the first computerized systems to process business data. Also called data processing. 13.35