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An apparel convention for exchanging pattern data through DXF; exact options and receiving-system behaviour require verification.WP10 / Outline wording

Classification by cumulative annual usage value, with locally chosen breakpoints and explicit criticality overrides.WP12 / Outline wording

The total greenhouse gas emissions within a declared boundary and period, before normalisation by output or another denominator.WP16 / Outline wording

Defined under ISO 2859-1 as the worst tolerable process average in statistical batch sampling, commonly set at 0.0 for critical defects, 1.5 or 2.5 for major defects and 4.0 for minor defects in garment audits.WP03 / Outline wording

Statistical sampling threshold (typically AQL 1.5 or 2.5 in apparel) defining the maximum percentage of defective garments permitted in an inspected shipment lot before rejection.WP09 / Outline wording

The maximum percentage of defective units (commonly AQL 2.5 for major defects in apparel) permitted in a statistical sampling inspection before an entire production batch is rejected.WP11 / Outline wording

Kilograms, metres or pieces released to the next stage after the defined quality decision, used as the denominator for operational intensity.WP06 / Outline wording

Garments that meet the agreed release or acceptance definition; distinguish internal release from buyer acceptance.WP20 / Outline wording

A design whose specified review and release conditions have been met; its exact acceptance state must be recorded.WP10 / Outline wording

The point at which a component declares acceptance, with its validation, persistence and responsibility explicitly defined.WP07 / Outline wording

A semi-supervised machine-learning workflow in which ambiguous or high-uncertainty camera frames are routed to a human inspector whose one-tap confirmation labels the sample for subsequent model retraining.WP03 / Outline wording

A quantitative measure of an activity that causes emissions, such as litres of fuel, kWh of electricity or kilograms of material.WP16 / Outline wording

A feature-fusion neck module used in YOLOv8-based fabric detectors (such as Fab-ASLKS) to adapt receptive fields to irregular and elongated textile defects.WP03 / Outline wording

The incremental outcome attributable to an intervention compared with the specified alternative.WP01 / Outline wording

A contribution beyond what would otherwise be available; distinguish financing additionality from development impact.WP13 / Outline wording

Formal approval of a legal act; it is distinct from publication, entry into force and application.WP17 / Outline wording

The African Continental Free Trade Area; a shipment's preferential treatment still requires applicable implementation and origin evidence.WP01 / Outline wording

The African Continental Free Trade Area, whose goods preferences depend on adopted rules, tariff schedules and domestic implementation.WP08 / Outline wording

African Continental Free Trade Area, the continental trade agreement uniting 54 signatory African Union member states across a 1.4 billion person market, under which textile and apparel rules of origin remain under negotiation (R23, S21).WP19 / Outline wording

An iterative process in which software selects actions, inspects results and proposes further changes under defined controls.WP10 / Outline wording

A record of a grouping whose child objects retain their identities, such as cartons on a pallet.WP05 / Outline wording

The African Growth and Opportunity Act, whose programme authorisation and country and product eligibility are distinct questions.WP01 / Outline wording

The African Growth and Opportunity Act, a United States nonreciprocal preference programme for eligible sub-Saharan African countries and products.WP08 / Outline wording

African Growth and Opportunity Act, a non-reciprocal United States trade preference programme enacted in 2000 and reauthorised through December 2026 under Public Law 119-75 (R18, S20).WP19 / Outline wording

The filament extrusion method used in Lyocell production where cellulose dissolved in NMMO passes through a spinneret across a short air gap before coagulating in an aqueous bath.WP11 / Outline wording

A public benchmark dataset developed by the Textile Research Institute in Spain containing high-resolution industrial fabric images across multiple weave defect classes.WP03 / Outline wording

A documented rule for assigning shared water, energy or chemical use to products, processes or facilities.WP06 / Outline wording

The assignment of shared inputs, outputs or emissions among products, processes or reporting entities using a documented rule.WP16 / Outline wording

Record connecting financing proceeds to identified eligible expenditure and its outstanding financed share.WP13 / Outline wording

Time added to observed work for defined recovery, unavoidable delay and other policy purposes under a stated work-measurement method.WP15 / Outline wording

The high-molecular-weight fraction of cellulose insoluble in 17.5 percent sodium hydroxide solution at 20 degrees Celsius; dissolving pulp for viscose and Lyocell spinning typically requires alpha-cellulose purity above 90 to 98 percent.WP11 / Outline wording

Scheduled repayment of principal over the loan life.WP13 / Outline wording

A comparison market selected for documented economic, channel and consumer similarities, used to inform a prior rather than to assert identical demand.WP04 / Outline wording

A previously offered product whose attributes, launch conditions and outcomes provide transferable evidence for a new item.WP04 / Outline wording

Systematic off-line operator training pedagogy that decomposes complex sewing tasks into basic psycho-motor exercises, paper stitching, fabric-handling drills and stamina builds.WP09 / Outline wording

A visible or audible signal that calls attention to an abnormal condition and triggers a defined response.WP02 / Outline wording

A visual and audible shop-floor control signal that alerts line supervisors and mechanics immediately when a process or vision station crosses a defect threshold.WP03 / Outline wording

A visual or audible signal that calls attention to an abnormality and requests a defined response.WP15 / Outline wording

A visual or audible signal that calls attention to a production abnormality and requests a defined response near the line.WP18 / Outline wording

A visual and audible shop-floor control signal allowing a sewing or cutting operator to flag a defect cluster or machine stoppage immediately for supervisor intervention.WP19 / Outline wording

Visual and audible workstation alert system allowing a sewing operator or inline inspector to summon a line supervisor or mechanic immediately when a defect cluster or machine fault occurs.WP09 / Outline wording

Measurement of human body dimensions using stated landmarks and procedures.WP20 / Outline wording

A receiving application has validated and durably committed the event under the agreed contract.WP07 / Outline wording

The date from which a specified provision is to be applied, subject to its scope and transitional arrangements.WP17 / Outline wording

Controlled collection of design, pattern, material, fit, colour and test decisions used to release an order.WP20 / Outline wording

An exporter authorised to issue specified origin declarations within the conditions of the relevant trade regime.WP08 / Outline wording

A two-dimensional matrix camera that captures a complete rectangular frame in a single exposure, suited to stationary flat-lay garment inspection and sewing-needle zone monitoring.WP03 / Outline wording

The time at which a data value became available, used to prevent later information or revisions entering a historical forecast replay.WP04 / Outline wording

A standardised digital representation of an asset and its submodels, used to exchange durable asset information between systems and partners.WP18 / Outline wording

The ordered representation of sites, areas, lines, work centres, machines and measurement points used to give data stable operational context.WP18 / Outline wording

A record of a lasting or semi-permanent relationship, distinguished from consumption and temporary grouping.WP05 / Outline wording

An independent engagement on specified information; its scope and conclusion must be read before relying on it.WP17 / Outline wording

The standard textile inspection method that assigns 1, 2, 3 or 4 penalty points according to defect length or hole presence and normalises total points per 100 square yards of fabric.WP03 / Outline wording

An apparel pattern-exchange convention supported by some CAD tools; format support alone does not establish interoperability.WP10 / Outline wording

All changes in a database transaction take effect together or none do; durability depends on the configured storage path.WP07 / Outline wording

A life cycle model that describes the average share of environmental burdens associated with a product system.WP16 / Outline wording

A threshold-independent performance metric measuring a model's ability to discriminate between defect-free and anomalous images or pixels from 0.0 to 1.0 (or 100 percent).WP03 / Outline wording

Pillar of Total Productive Maintenance in which sewing operators perform daily lint cleaning, oil-sight checks, needle changes and tension verification before and after each shift.WP09 / Outline wording

The OEE component representing the share of planned production time during which the process is actually running.WP02 / Outline wording

The OEE component comparing operating time with the planned production-time base after downtime losses.WP15 / Outline wording

Quantity that can be committed to a dated customer requirement under defined stock, receipt, allocation and capacity rules.WP12 / Outline wording

A digital representation of a body used for visualisation or simulation.WP10 / Outline wording

Digital body representation used for garment simulation; its dimensions and shape coverage must be stated.WP20 / Outline wording

The external network path connecting the site network to upstream services.WP07 / Outline wording

Accepted work retained pending transmission, processing or remote durable acceptance.WP07 / Outline wording

Unfilled demand retained as an outstanding obligation to deliver later.WP12 / Outline wording

A controlled signal or limit that slows intake when downstream capacity is constrained.WP07 / Outline wording

A retrospective evaluation that recreates the information and decision conditions under which forecasts would have been produced.WP04 / Outline wording

A measure of how effectively assigned work content uses the stations and governing cycle of a line.WP15 / Outline wording

The share of line capacity left unused because work is unevenly allocated across stations.WP15 / Outline wording

Proportion of available workstation time lost to uneven task durations across a sewing line, equal to one minus line balance efficiency.WP09 / Outline wording

An identified compressed unit of cotton fibre used in handling and trade.WP05 / Outline wording

The set of bales selected as inputs for a spinning production run.WP05 / Outline wording

Capacity to satisfy an identified financier’s commercial, technical, legal and environmental and social requirements.WP13 / Outline wording

A reference pattern used as the starting point for related designs and controlled variants.WP10 / Outline wording

The reference period against which later emissions and reductions are compared.WP16 / Outline wording

A dated and defined reference population against which later performance is compared.WP02 / Outline wording

Explicit reference condition and period against which an outcome or target is assessed.WP13 / Outline wording

A simple, explicit forecast against which every more elaborate candidate must demonstrate an improvement.WP04 / Outline wording

A new-product adoption model that represents initial purchases through innovation and imitation parameters under specific market assumptions.WP04 / Outline wording

A defined production grouping used to link material, process and evidence records.WP17 / Outline wording

The linked identity of a production batch, its input lots, recipe versions, machines, processing events, quality results and reprocessing.WP06 / Outline wording

A model that estimates shared and local parameters together, allowing partial pooling across products, sites or markets.WP04 / Outline wording

Identification of the natural persons who ultimately own or control an entity, subject to applicable legal definitions.WP13 / Outline wording

Battery Energy Storage System, electrochemical storage paired with captive solar photovoltaics to stabilise factory power quality and bridge grid outages (S33).WP19 / Outline wording

Techniques described in European BAT reference documents and conclusions as the basis for preventing or reducing industrial emissions and resource use.WP06 / Outline wording

A systematic tendency for forecasts to sit above or below realised values rather than merely to vary around them.WP04 / Outline wording

Fabric direction oblique to the principal yarn directions, with potentially different deformation behaviour.WP20 / Outline wording

A structured list of the material and trim inputs specified for a product, with identifiers and quantity bases.WP10 / Outline wording

Versioned component quantities and specifications required to produce an item.WP12 / Outline wording

Versioned list of the materials, trims and consumables specified for an article.WP20 / Outline wording

A laboratory measure of oxygen consumed by biochemical processes in a water sample under stated test conditions.WP06 / Outline wording

Carbon contained in biomass, whose uptake, storage and release must be represented separately from fossil carbon where relevant.WP16 / Outline wording

A Sparkplug message that declares an edge node, device or host application and its current metrics or online state at session establishment.WP18 / Outline wording

Unprinted ready-made garment held for subsequent decoration or finishing.WP20 / Outline wording

Combination of concessional development resources with commercial finance to address an evidenced financing obstacle.WP13 / Outline wording

Surface water or groundwater withdrawn or consumed for irrigation, processing or another human use under the applicable water-accounting method.WP06 / Outline wording

A dimension recorded on a wearer or body representation using a declared method, posture and unit.WP10 / Outline wording

A model in which attribute certificates or credits can be transferred separately from physical material, under defined rules.WP05 / Outline wording

An identifier distinguishing events produced during a particular device or process start interval.WP07 / Outline wording

Value of eligible financed assets after agreed exclusions and advance rates.WP13 / Outline wording

The operation or resource that currently limits the throughput of the whole system.WP15 / Outline wording

The workstation on a garment assembly line with the longest effective cycle time or lowest capacity, which dictates the maximum throughput of the entire line.WP09 / Outline wording

Front-mounted coaxial or diffuse lighting directed at the fabric surface to reveal colour variations, oil stains, soil marks and print misregistration.WP03 / Outline wording

An existing operating facility with equipment, constraints and records that a digital architecture must accommodate rather than assume away.WP18 / Outline wording

A reduction of supply voltage whose effect depends on equipment and protection; record it separately from complete supply loss.WP07 / Outline wording

Benin Textile S.A., the vertically integrated home-textile and fabric plant in Benin's Glo-Djigbe Industrial Zone equipped with 48,768 ring spindles and 2,000 open-end rotors (S04).WP19 / Outline wording

Amplification of order variability upstream relative to downstream demand under a consistently defined comparison.WP12 / Outline wording

A production method that moves a group of garment components together between operations.WP15 / Outline wording

Physical or barcode/RFID routing card accompanying a cut garment bundle that specifies style, size, shade lot, operation sequence and standard minute values.WP09 / Outline wording

Evidence that a supplier and product meet a buyer's technical and commercial requirements.WP01 / Outline wording

An information or performance condition imposed by a customer, with a legal or commercial purpose that should be identified.WP17 / Outline wording

Export and receiving-system reopen/readback that checks whether required geometry and annotations survive exchange.WP10 / Outline wording

The agreement between stated predictive probabilities or interval levels and the frequency with which outcomes occur.WP04 / Outline wording

Binding release of quantity or timing against a framework agreement, according to its stated terms.WP12 / Outline wording

A US$300 million (180 billion XAF) integrated cotton-to-textile venture in Cameroon backed by Panafritex, Arise, SODECOTON, CNPS and Marlo, targeting 12,000 tonnes of cotton processing a year at Dibamba and Garoua (R09, R10).WP19 / Outline wording

A governed shared representation used to map between systems without allowing every pair of applications to invent a separate translation.WP18 / Outline wording

A shared representation of important entities and events that reduces repeated translation between applications while preserving source detail.WP14 / Outline wording

Corrective and Preventive Action, a structured root-cause engineering log that assigns a single owner and verification date to recurring shop-floor defects or downtime events.WP19 / Outline wording

Actual throughput divided by the matching capacity denominator over the same period.WP01 / Outline wording

Ratio of actual good garments produced over a period to the engineering nameplate capacity of the plant or line.WP09 / Outline wording

Actual output relative to a declared capacity basis, with the time, product and quality boundaries stated.WP15 / Outline wording

A common unit that converts greenhouse gases using their selected global warming potentials, abbreviated CO2e.WP16 / Outline wording

The sum of greenhouse gas emissions and removals for a product system, expressed as CO2e under a declared method.WP16 / Outline wording

Short fibres, neps and seed-coat fragments removed by the revolving flats and cylinders of a carding machine during cotton yarn preparation.WP11 / Outline wording

Decision-model cost of holding an additional unit for a stated time, distinct from accounting stock value.WP12 / Outline wording

The time and funding relationship between paying for inputs and collecting payment for output.WP01 / Outline wording

Inventory days plus receivable days less payable days; underlying cash values use the correct sales or cost denominator.WP13 / Outline wording

AfCFTA tariff-book groups for general liberalisation, sensitive products and excluded products respectively.WP08 / Outline wording

The EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism for selected covered goods; use the current product-code scope.WP17 / Outline wording

The Central African Economic and Monetary Community, a regional community with a common external tariff and continuing internal integration work.WP08 / Outline wording

Economic and Monetary Community of Central Africa, comprising Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea and Gabon, with a 2024 population of 63.3 million and GDP of US$125.9 billion (S36).WP19 / Outline wording

Demand whose observation is limited by availability or another constraint, so recorded sales do not reveal the full amount wanted.WP04 / Outline wording

Demand only partly observable because availability or another constraint limits recorded sales.WP12 / Outline wording

Accelerated public vocational training structure supervised by Cameroon's Ministry of Employment and Vocational Training (MINEFOP) to deliver short-cycle industrial and office skills.WP09 / Outline wording

High-specification public-private vocational training centres established under MINEFOP in Cameroon with international partner support to train technicians and master instructors.WP09 / Outline wording

A document issued or endorsed by the competent authority to certify that goods satisfy the applicable preferential origin rule.WP08 / Outline wording

Common External Tariff, the harmonised ECCAS-CEMAC customs tariff schedule approved in October 2024 and effective in Cameroon on 1 January 2026 with duty bands from 0 to 40 percent (S35).WP19 / Outline wording

Central Effluent Treatment Plant, shared industrial wastewater treatment infrastructure in textile parks designed to recycle process water and prevent dye pollution (S15).WP19 / Outline wording

Cash flow available for debt service, defined explicitly in the model and reconciled to the negotiated financing definition.WP13 / Outline wording

The CSDDD term for covered upstream and specified downstream activities, subject to the applicable legal definition.WP17 / Outline wording

The documented transfer and control of material identity or claims through successive actors.WP01 / Outline wording

The documented sequence of custody or control transfers and processing needed to preserve a claimed attribute.WP05 / Outline wording

The chronological documentary trail recording the sequence of entities that take physical or legal custody of certified materials from waste origin to finished product.WP11 / Outline wording

The documented path through which a material, product or item of evidence passes between owners and processes.WP16 / Outline wording

The documented relationship through which material identity or claims are passed between supply-chain stages.WP17 / Outline wording

The work and elapsed time required to move from one product or style to another, bounded here from last good piece to first good piece.WP15 / Outline wording

An operation that transfers or consolidates persisted state, such as moving WAL contents into a main database file.WP07 / Outline wording

A laboratory measure of oxygen required to oxidise material in a water sample, used as one indicator of effluent load.WP06 / Outline wording

Pre-consumer post-industrial cutting-room fabric waste generated during garment marker cutting, targeted for mechanical fibre-to-fibre recycling in North African clusters (S23).WP19 / Outline wording

Cotonniere Industrielle du Cameroun, Cameroon's historic state-backed textile manufacturer whose domestic market share fell from about 85 percent three decades ago to about 5 percent (R11, R12).WP19 / Outline wording

A colour-space system using coordinates such as lightness and chromatic components to express colour and calculate colour difference.WP06 / Outline wording

A quantitative metric defined by the International Commission on Illumination measuring perceptual colour distance between a target textile shade standard and a sampled fabric roll.WP03 / Outline wording

The material, attribute, geography, period and product granularity to which an assertion applies.WP05 / Outline wording

An authorised decision that a specific product claim has sufficient evidence for its proposed use.WP05 / Outline wording

Operation of a local clock without its usual external reference, with uncertainty that must be assessed.WP07 / Outline wording

Metadata describing the synchronisation state and uncertainty attached to a recorded time.WP07 / Outline wording

Recycling processes in which post-industrial or post-consumer textile waste is reprocessed into new textile fibres and garments of equivalent functional quality (fibre-to-fibre recycling).WP11 / Outline wording

Computing services delivered from remote shared infrastructure, used where their operational benefit justifies connectivity, dependency and administration.WP18 / Outline wording

Cotton made in Africa, an Aid by Trade Foundation sustainability standard verifying nearly 40 percent of African cotton across 715,000 smallholder farming families in nine countries (S08, S09).WP19 / Outline wording

Cut, Make and Trim, the downstream garment manufacturing stage comprising fabric spreading, cutting, sewing assembly, pressing and packaging.WP19 / Outline wording

A Combined Nomenclature customs classification used in determining product-specific treatment; classification needs competent review.WP17 / Outline wording

Another valuable output produced alongside the principal product within the same system, such as cottonseed with lint.WP16 / Outline wording

Constrained Application Protocol, designed for constrained devices and networks.WP07 / Outline wording

For a heat pump, useful thermal output divided by external energy input under stated source, sink and operating conditions.WP06 / Outline wording

Starting a device from an unpowered state rather than merely restarting an application.WP07 / Outline wording

A forecasting setting in which the target item, firm, channel or market lacks the history normally used to fit a model.WP04 / Outline wording

The operational constraint on a greenfield production line or new fabric style where zero annotated local defect images exist at launch, requiring pre-trained or one-class nominal models.WP03 / Outline wording

Contact or intersection between simulated garment elements or between garment and body geometry.WP10 / Outline wording

Resistance of a textile colour to a specified treatment or use condition; the method and assessment must be named.WP20 / Outline wording

Range of colours reproducible by a stated device and material process under defined conditions.WP20 / Outline wording

Short cotton fibres (typically shorter than 12 to 15 mm) combed out during the production of fine combed ring-spun yarns; a high-purity virgin cellulose co-product used in open-end rotor spinning, medical cotton and dissolving pulp.WP11 / Outline wording

A shared schedule of import duties applied by participating states to goods originating outside their customs territory.WP08 / Outline wording

A shared dependency causes apparently separate services or paths to fail together.WP07 / Outline wording

Curriculum and assessment methodology implemented by Cameroon's MINESEC and MINEFOP that certifies trainees on demonstrated execution of specific industrial tasks rather than classroom seat time.WP09 / Outline wording

Proposed production-release check that all required accepted components and specifications are ready.WP12 / Outline wording

The degree to which required records and fields are present at the grain needed for a decision.WP14 / Outline wording

A change in the relationship between model inputs and the target that can reduce the validity of a previously fitted model.WP04 / Outline wording

A change in the underlying data relationship or distribution over time that can invalidate a model's previous mapping.WP14 / Outline wording

Financial support on below-reference terms, assessed against a declared comparator and valuation method.WP13 / Outline wording

Requirements that must be satisfied or validly waived before a specified contractual action such as a first draw.WP13 / Outline wording

The explicitly defined communication path between security zones, including the permitted services, protocols and controls.WP18 / Outline wording

An assessment of whether specified requirements for a product, process or organisation have been met.WP05 / Outline wording

Records supporting a stated requirement for a specified product or process; not automatically a regulator approval.WP17 / Outline wording

A research method that infers preferences for product attributes from structured trade-offs or choices.WP04 / Outline wording

A life cycle model that estimates how environmental burdens change in response to a decision, including market or substitution effects.WP16 / Outline wording

Stock physically held by a party while ownership remains with another under agreed contractual terms.WP12 / Outline wording

A limiting operation, skill, machine, material supply, power condition or policy that governs system output.WP15 / Outline wording

Instructions describing how components are assembled, including seam, stitch and reinforcement requirements.WP10 / Outline wording

A compact, 1:1 magnification linear optical sensor array combining LED illumination, rod-lens optics and CMOS detectors for sub-millimetre on-loom or short-working-distance web scanning.WP03 / Outline wording

Budget provision for defined uncertainty; its basis and source of funding must be specified.WP13 / Outline wording

Net retained revenue less the variable and order-specific costs defined by the chosen model.WP20 / Outline wording

Net realised sales less variable costs, expressed in total or per accepted unit.WP01 / Outline wording

Revenue less the variable costs associated with the relevant additional units, using an explicit accounting boundary.WP07 / Outline wording

A statistically derived boundary used to assess process variation, distinct from a customer specification or management target.WP02 / Outline wording

Mixing specified inputs in controlled proportions under a defined custody model and claim rule.WP05 / Outline wording

Usable output mass divided by corresponding input mass for a defined production stage.WP01 / Outline wording

An unsupervised neural network trained to compress and reconstruct defect-free fabric textures so that unseen defects produce high pixel-level reconstruction error.WP03 / Outline wording

An attention mechanism that embeds positional horizontal and vertical coordinate information into channel attention maps, improving small-target sewing and weave defect localisation.WP03 / Outline wording

GS1 vocabulary defining shared business-step, disposition and related values used with EPCIS.WP05 / Outline wording

A greedy geometric reduction algorithm used in PatchCore to shrink a nominal patch-feature memory bank while preserving coverage of normal texture variations for fast nearest-neighbour search.WP03 / Outline wording

Financing assessed against a company’s wider credit and cash flows rather than only an isolated project.WP13 / Outline wording

The entity, group, size, activity and territorial conditions that determine whether a corporate duty applies.WP17 / Outline wording

An owned intervention intended to remove a detected problem or its underlying cause.WP02 / Outline wording

A change intended to address an identified problem, with effectiveness checked separately from administrative closure.WP17 / Outline wording

The controlled investigation, correction, cause removal and verification used to prevent a problem recurring.WP02 / Outline wording

Closed-loop quality and maintenance discipline recorded in the weekly review log that pairs every recurring defect or breakdown with a root-cause fix, named owner and verification date.WP09 / Outline wording

The total financial loss incurred from internal failures (fabric scrap, unpicking, re-sewing, downgraded seconds, OEE loss) and external failures (AQL lot rejections, chargebacks, returns).WP03 / Outline wording

The relevant cost divided by garments accepted without rework or rejection under a stated counting rule.WP02 / Outline wording

The benchmark international price index representing the offering price of middling-grade raw cotton lint delivered to Far Eastern ports (S01).WP19 / Outline wording

Transformation of cotton fibres into yarn by mills; use the source definition in S29.WP01 / Outline wording

The West and Central African cotton coalition comprising Benin, Burkina Faso, Chad and Mali, extended to C-4+ with Cote d'Ivoire, accounting for roughly 8 percent of global lint trade (S02, S38).WP19 / Outline wording

A washing arrangement in which fabric and wash water move in opposite directions so the freshest water contacts the cleanest fabric.WP06 / Outline wording

The specified alternative against which a proposed economic or environmental effect is compared.WP01 / Outline wording

The credible account of what would have happened without the model or data intervention, used to assess claimed benefit.WP14 / Outline wording

An input variable used alongside or instead of target history to inform a forecast.WP04 / Outline wording

Contractual undertaking or financial test; its actual consequence depends on the executed agreement.WP13 / Outline wording

A boundary covering raw-material acquisition and production up to the point where a product leaves the supplier's gate.WP16 / Outline wording

A boundary covering raw materials, production, distribution, use and final disposal or recovery.WP16 / Outline wording

Ratio of underage cost to the sum of underage and overage cost in the basic single-period inventory model.WP12 / Outline wording

A structured check that an LCA is consistent with the applicable standards, methods and evidence.WP16 / Outline wording

The agricultural production and marketing season, which may differ from a calendar reporting year.WP01 / Outline wording

A family of intermittent-demand approaches that models nonzero demand sizes and the intervals between demand occurrences.WP04 / Outline wording

The EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive, read with adopted amendments and relevant national implementation.WP17 / Outline wording

The EU Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive and its amendments to corporate reporting requirements.WP17 / Outline wording

Clothing, Textiles, Footwear and Leather Growth Programme, South Africa's industrial incentive scheme administered by the Industrial Development Corporation for the dtic (S16).WP19 / Outline wording

A mechanism that allows qualifying materials or processing from more than one participating country to count towards preferential origin.WP08 / Outline wording

Process used to achieve the required ink, binder or adhesive state; conditions depend on the specified system.WP20 / Outline wording

Point at which production becomes committed to a particular customer order rather than a forecast.WP20 / Outline wording

A product's national origin as determined by the applicable trade rules, distinct from cotton growing location.WP05 / Outline wording

The value assigned to goods under customs rules and used, where applicable, to calculate duties and certain origin tests.WP08 / Outline wording

The boundary used for cutting a pattern piece; it can differ from the stitching line by the seam allowance.WP10 / Outline wording

The core garment manufacturing stage encompassing marker spreading, panel cutting, sewing assembly, trimming, pressing and packing.WP03 / Outline wording

The garment manufacturing stage encompassing fabric spreading, pattern cutting, sewing assembly, trimming, pressing and packaging.WP11 / Outline wording

Garment assembly activities using fabric and trims; they do not by themselves establish local lint conversion.WP01 / Outline wording

Core garment manufacturing operating model covering fabric spreading, cutting, sewing assembly, trimming, pressing and packaging.WP09 / Outline wording

A periodic physical verification of selected stock records with investigation and approval of discrepancies.WP12 / Outline wording

Probability, or observed share, of replenishment cycles with no stockout under a defined convention.WP12 / Outline wording

Inventory associated with replenishment lot sizes rather than uncertainty protection.WP12 / Outline wording

Actual elapsed time required by an operator at a workstation to complete one assigned operation on a single garment piece, including material handling and bundle positioning.WP09 / Outline wording

The time associated with completing a job or cycle at a workstation, defined consistently for the analysis.WP15 / Outline wording

Standing 10-to-15-minute shift-opening review led by the line supervisor at the visual board to examine yesterday's output, defects and downtime and assign today's station fixes.WP09 / Outline wording

Low-angle lighting directed nearly parallel to the fabric plane so raised surface anomalies such as slubs, knots, nep clusters and 3D seam puckering cast high-contrast shadows.WP03 / Outline wording

A physical or electronic representation, such as a code, used to access an identifier or data.WP05 / Outline wording

A versioned promise describing a dataset's schema, semantics, ownership, timing, quality expectations and compatibility rules.WP14 / Outline wording

The share of the intended reporting boundary supported by valid measurements or documented estimates, including missing periods and meters.WP06 / Outline wording

The technical role responsible for operating storage, access, backup, recovery and related controls without owning business meaning.WP14 / Outline wording

A bounded subject area such as production, quality, maintenance, orders, people or sustainability used to assign accountability.WP14 / Outline wording

The age of the newest trustworthy information relative to the decision being made.WP07 / Outline wording

The elapsed time and validity state of a value relative to its source event and the decision that consumes it.WP18 / Outline wording

The decision rights, accountabilities, policies and controls used to manage data as an organisational asset.WP02 / Outline wording

The decision rights, accountability, policies and controls used to manage data throughout its lifecycle.WP14 / Outline wording

The use of information during training or evaluation that would not legitimately be available for the intended prediction, inflating apparent performance.WP14 / Outline wording

The traceable path from source records through transformations to a dataset, KPI, model or decision.WP14 / Outline wording

Limiting personal data to what is necessary and proportionate for a specified purpose.WP05 / Outline wording

Limiting personal data to what is adequate, relevant and necessary for a stated processing purpose.WP14 / Outline wording

Limiting personal information to what is necessary for its specified processing purpose, where the relevant privacy rules apply.WP17 / Outline wording

The role accountable for the meaning, permitted use and quality requirements of a defined data domain.WP02 / Outline wording

The role accountable for a dataset's purpose, definition, access, quality expectations and retention.WP14 / Outline wording

The recorded origin and transformation history of a value, sufficient to interpret its credibility and reproduce a derived result.WP18 / Outline wording

The fitness of data for its intended use, assessed through dimensions such as completeness, validity, consistency and accuracy.WP02 / Outline wording

The fitness of data for a stated purpose, assessed through explicit characteristics and measures rather than a general claim of cleanliness.WP14 / Outline wording

The fitness of data for a stated use, assessed through dimensions such as technology, time, geography, completeness and reliability.WP16 / Outline wording

The fitness of data for a specified use, including accuracy, completeness, timeliness, consistency and contextual validity.WP18 / Outline wording

The role responsible for applying definitions, quality checks and issue-resolution procedures to operational data.WP02 / Outline wording

The role that performs recurring definition, quality, correction and coordination work close to a business domain.WP14 / Outline wording

An immutable, identified version of a training, validation or test dataset with its manifest, quality state and lineage.WP14 / Outline wording

Unsold finished garments or unused fabric rolls remaining in warehouse inventory after a retail season or order cancellation.WP11 / Outline wording

A Sparkplug message, normally registered through MQTT's Will mechanism, that informs consumers when a session ends or a node is offline.WP18 / Outline wording

Cash interest, scheduled principal and other charges included under the stated contractual definition.WP13 / Outline wording

An identifier whose control and resolution follow a specified DID method.WP05 / Outline wording

Stage separating forecast-driven commitment from activities triggered by a confirmed customer order.WP12 / Outline wording

Detection and controlled suppression of repeated processing of the same identified event.WP07 / Outline wording

A green solvent system formed by mixing a hydrogen-bond acceptor (such as choline chloride) and a hydrogen-bond donor (such as lactic acid or urea) whose melting point is far below that of its individual components, used for targeted cellulose depolymerisation.WP11 / Outline wording

A primary garment-floor quality KPI calculated as total defects found divided by total units inspected multiplied by 100, capturing multiple defects occurring on a single garment.WP03 / Outline wording

Primary garment quality metric calculated as total individual defects found divided by total units inspected, multiplied by 100.WP09 / Outline wording

A core shop-floor quality KPI calculated as total defects found divided by total garments inspected, multiplied by 100.WP11 / Outline wording

An explicitly permitted reduced service with visible limits, recording and exit conditions.WP07 / Outline wording

The average number of glucose monomer units in a cellulose polymer chain; native cotton has a DP above 2,000, which must be reduced to roughly 500 to 900 for chemical dissolving pulp.WP11 / Outline wording

A Commission act adopted under powers in legislation to supplement or amend specified non-essential elements, subject to legal controls.WP17 / Outline wording

A defined occurrence such as an order, fulfilment, sale, return or cancellation that may serve as a measurement target.WP04 / Outline wording

Component demand derived from requirements for parent items through their bills of materials.WP12 / Outline wording

The intended visual and functional properties that technical development must preserve or explicitly revise.WP10 / Outline wording

Removal of size applied to warp yarns before weaving, usually required before subsequent wet processing.WP06 / Outline wording

Specified forms of cumulation that differ in how originating materials and processing across participating countries are treated.WP08 / Outline wording

A web identifier expressing GS1 identification keys according to the specified syntax.WP05 / Outline wording

Software representation of a physical fabric, including visual and mechanical properties relevant to its intended use.WP20 / Outline wording

A structured product information record; regulatory scope and required fields depend on applicable rules.WP05 / Outline wording

A digital product-information system established within the ESPR framework, with detailed obligations determined through applicable product rules.WP06 / Outline wording

A legally specified product-information mechanism where applicable; a QR page alone does not establish conformity.WP17 / Outline wording

Product-specific data made accessible electronically through a data carrier under the requirements applicable to that product.WP18 / Outline wording

A structured, machine-readable digital record mandated under Regulation (EU) 2024/1781 (ESPR) that links a physical product via QR, NFC or RFID to verifiable provenance, durability and sustainability data.WP03 / Outline wording

A structured digital record mandated under EU Regulation (EU) 2024/1781 linking a unique product identifier to verifiable lifecycle, composition, circularity and chain-of-custody data.WP11 / Outline wording

Virtual garment used for a stated review task, with known inputs and limits.WP20 / Outline wording

A digital representation of an observable manufacturing element with defined information exchange and synchronisation between relevant entities.WP18 / Outline wording

National vocational qualification credential issued by Cameroon's MINEFOP upon passing annual practical and theoretical trade examinations.WP09 / Outline wording

National specialised technician credential awarded by Cameroon's MINEFOP for advanced post-secondary vocational and industrial tracks.WP09 / Outline wording

A consignment condition requiring goods to move between participating territories within the transport and customs-control limits of the preference regime.WP08 / Outline wording

Decoration route that prints onto film and transfers the prepared design onto a garment using an appropriate adhesive and heat process.WP20 / Outline wording

Inkjet deposition directly onto a garment, with preparation and curing appropriate to the selected system.WP20 / Outline wording

High-purity bleached chemical pulp with tightly controlled alpha-cellulose content, intrinsic viscosity and low metal ash, manufactured from wood or waste cotton for chemical regeneration into viscose, modal or Lyocell fibres.WP11 / Outline wording

Separation between a garment and the underlying body at specified locations and poses.WP20 / Outline wording

Time-phased calculation of replenishment requirements across distribution locations.WP12 / Outline wording

The five-step Six Sigma continuous-improvement cycle used with Pareto charts and fishbone diagrams to eliminate root causes of recurring sewing and fabric defects.WP03 / Outline wording

A mismatch between the setting in which a model was trained or benchmarked and the setting in which it must forecast.WP04 / Outline wording

A programming language designed to express the concepts and operations of a particular task domain.WP10 / Outline wording

Value created domestically after subtracting intermediate consumption, with consolidation boundaries disclosed.WP01 / Outline wording

Assigning the same eligible quantity to incompatible or repeated claims contrary to the relevant scheme rules.WP05 / Outline wording

A preferential rule of origin requiring two sequential manufacturing stages, typically yarn spinning plus fabric weaving or knitting, or fabric formation plus garment making, inside the trade bloc (S21, S27).WP19 / Outline wording

Reprocessing used textiles into lower-value, non-apparel products such as industrial wiping rags, thermal/acoustic building insulation, automotive felts or mattress stuffing.WP11 / Outline wording

Time within a defined production window when a resource is not running, classified by a controlled cause taxonomy.WP02 / Outline wording

Planned production time lost to a recorded stop, with cause and ownership assigned.WP15 / Outline wording

Digital Product Passport, a mandatory digital record under European Union Regulation (EU) 2024/1781 storing product provenance, material composition and environmental performance (S34).WP19 / Outline wording

The shape and deformation of fabric under its loading, constraints and material properties.WP10 / Outline wording

Configuration assumed by a fabric under gravity and other stated boundary conditions.WP20 / Outline wording

CFADS divided by debt service for a stated period; undefined or not applicable where the denominator is zero.WP13 / Outline wording

A risk-based process to identify, prevent, mitigate and address adverse impacts, extending beyond supplier mapping.WP05 / Outline wording

A process to identify, prevent, mitigate and address adverse impacts; the applicable law or guidance defines its particular scope.WP17 / Outline wording

A committed change protected against the declared failure types by the complete software and storage path.WP07 / Outline wording

Market access without customs duty or quantitative quota for goods that satisfy the applicable eligibility conditions.WP08 / Outline wording

A CAD exchange format whose supported content and interpretation depend on conventions, software and settings.WP10 / Outline wording

The transfer of dye from the dyebath to the textile, calculated from initial and residual dyebath concentrations under a stated method.WP06 / Outline wording

The proportion of dye durably bonded to the textile after unfixed dye has been removed, distinguished from exhaustion alone.WP06 / Outline wording

Use of a residual dyebath in a later process after compatibility, residual chemistry and colour risks have been assessed.WP06 / Outline wording

Good output multiplied by its standard minute value, used to compare labour productivity across work content.WP15 / Outline wording

The allowance of garment material relative to the body, specified for appearance, comfort or movement.WP10 / Outline wording

The Economic Community of Central African States, the wider Central African regional community whose common external tariff is applied in Cameroon.WP08 / Outline wording

Stock measured across a defined downstream network boundary, with consistent treatment of pipeline and backorders.WP12 / Outline wording

The adjustment of Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) financial fees through bonuses (discounts for durability, certification and recycled content) and penalties (surcharges for non-recyclable materials).WP11 / Outline wording

Regulation (EU) 2024/1781 establishing the European Union framework for mandatory product durability, recyclability, recycled content, Digital Product Passports and bans on destroying unsold consumer apparel.WP11 / Outline wording

A role defined by the relevant product law, such as manufacturer, importer or distributor.WP17 / Outline wording

Lot size minimising ordering and holding costs under the basic model’s restrictive assumptions.WP12 / Outline wording

A trade and development agreement between the EU and an ACP partner, including reciprocal but asymmetric commitments and preferential origin rules.WP08 / Outline wording

Collection or processing of operational data close to the machine or work event, often with local buffering.WP02 / Outline wording

Processing close to machines or work activities so capture, inference or control can continue with limited dependence on remote services.WP14 / Outline wording

Computation performed near the production process or network edge to meet continuity, latency, data-volume or local-control requirements.WP18 / Outline wording

Executing trained neural-network forward passes locally on industrial compute modules attached directly to factory cameras rather than streaming raw video to a remote cloud server.WP03 / Outline wording

Executing a trained model near the data source; local execution alone does not prove offline operability.WP07 / Outline wording

A computing and gateway function that acquires local device data, applies edge services and communicates with host applications.WP18 / Outline wording

Labour cost interpreted against productive capability and good output rather than nominal wage alone.WP02 / Outline wording

Total direct and supervisory payroll, statutory contributions and training amortisation divided by the number of first-pass-yield garments produced.WP09 / Outline wording

A synthetic segmented polyurethane-urea filament known for high elasticity; even 2 to 5 percent elastane acts as a severe contaminant in mechanical cotton tearing and chemical cellulose dissolution.WP11 / Outline wording

Quantity still available for a specified claim after applying the relevant scheme's allocation and cancellation rules.WP05 / Outline wording

A coefficient that converts activity data into greenhouse gas emissions for a specified gas, boundary, geography and period.WP16 / Outline wording

Hundred-percent quality check conducted at the exit of a sewing line before pressing and packing, which catches defects late unless paired with inline roving checks.WP09 / Outline wording

A documented quantitative reference against which later energy performance is compared, with relevant variables and boundary retained.WP06 / Outline wording

A measure or ratio used to characterise energy performance against an appropriate activity or output basis.WP02 / Outline wording

A measure or ratio used to monitor energy performance under an energy-management system.WP06 / Outline wording

Artwork positioned in relation to specific garment panels, seams or body locations.WP20 / Outline wording

The point at which a legal act becomes legally effective, which may precede the application of particular obligations.WP17 / Outline wording

Time-bound measures, responsibilities and evidence for closing identified environmental and social gaps.WP13 / Outline wording

A management framework for identifying, managing, monitoring and addressing environmental and social risks.WP01 / Outline wording

A standardised document reporting life cycle environmental information for a product under applicable product category rules.WP16 / Outline wording

A top-down model that estimates environmental flows from economic transactions between sectors, often used for screening.WP16 / Outline wording

The Economic Operators Registration and Identification number used in EU customs processes.WP08 / Outline wording

Economic Partnership Agreement, used here for the EU-Cameroon trade arrangement.WP01 / Outline wording

Economic Partnership Agreement, bilateral or regional trade frameworks between the European Union or United Kingdom and African states governing reciprocal tariff dismantling and export access (S26, S32).WP19 / Outline wording

GS1's standard for capturing and exchanging visibility-event data within and across organisations.WP05 / Outline wording

A GS1 standard for creating and sharing visibility event data within and across enterprises.WP14 / Outline wording

A GS1 standard for creating and sharing visibility event data about objects and processes within and across enterprises.WP18 / Outline wording

Extended producer responsibility for specified product waste, with responsibility determined under the relevant scheme.WP17 / Outline wording

Extended Producer Responsibility, a policy mechanism requiring apparel producers and importers to fund the collection, sorting and recycling of post-consumer textile waste (S28).WP19 / Outline wording

Export Processing Zone, a customs-controlled industrial enclave offering duty-free input imports and tax incentives for export-oriented manufacturers, called Zone Franche in Madagascar (S24, S26).WP19 / Outline wording

Environmental and social management system used to identify, manage and monitor relevant risks and impacts.WP13 / Outline wording

The European Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation, which establishes a framework for product requirements and digital product passports.WP06 / Outline wording

The Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation, a framework for product performance and information requirements.WP17 / Outline wording

Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation, Regulation (EU) 2024/1781 establishing sustainability, durability and digital passport rules for products placed on the EU market (S34).WP19 / Outline wording

European Sustainability Reporting Standards used by undertakings subject to the relevant EU reporting rules.WP17 / Outline wording

A voluntary EU environmental labelling scheme with product-specific criteria and independent verification.WP17 / Outline wording

The EU Deforestation Regulation covering listed commodities and relevant products, subject to current amendments.WP17 / Outline wording

A movement certificate used as proof of preferential origin under the EU EPA and MAR procedures.WP08 / Outline wording

A contextual record of something that happened, carrying identity, time, meaning and quality rather than only a measured value.WP18 / Outline wording

The payload and contextual fields needed to identify, order, validate and reconcile an event.WP07 / Outline wording

The recorded time of a physical or business event, distinct from later entry or receipt time.WP05 / Outline wording

The time at which the represented operational event occurred, as distinct from when its record arrived or was processed.WP14 / Outline wording

The EU's duty-free and quota-free GSP arrangement for least-developed countries, covering products other than arms and ammunition.WP08 / Outline wording

Acceptance of an evidence item for a particular claim under declared criteria; not a legal admissibility opinion.WP05 / Outline wording

A proposed measure of required evidence present for a defined applicable-requirement population; completeness alone does not prove compliance.WP17 / Outline wording

The proposed collection of source, version, permission, validation and approval records accompanying an artefact.WP10 / Outline wording

The date of the underlying observation or analysis, which may differ from a page's posting or access date.WP01 / Outline wording

The price of a product at the factory gate, used as the denominator in specified origin calculations.WP08 / Outline wording

Chronological evaluation in which each successive training set adds later history and tests a subsequent period.WP04 / Outline wording

An environmental policy mechanism making producers, brands and importers financially and operationally responsible for the end-of-life collection, sorting, reuse and recycling of products they place on the market.WP11 / Outline wording

The harmonic mean of precision and recall for a stated task and unit of evaluation; not a whole-product acceptance measure by default.WP10 / Outline wording

Principal direction of a fabric used to orient pattern pieces and control behaviour.WP20 / Outline wording

A preventive quality engineering method that ranks potential process failures by multiplying Severity, Occurrence and Detection scores into a Risk Priority Number (RPN).WP03 / Outline wording

An inspection error in which a genuinely defective fabric segment or garment is misclassified as acceptable and passes downstream to cutting or the customer.WP03 / Outline wording

An inspection error in which a nominal, acceptable fabric region (or benign lint speck) is flagged as a defect, triggering unnecessary human triage or line stops.WP03 / Outline wording

A model input derived from source data under a documented definition, transformation, time window and missing-value rule.WP14 / Outline wording

Proportion of requested unit demand filled immediately from available stock under a stated boundary.WP12 / Outline wording

Transaction milestone at which the relevant financing documents and defined closing conditions have been completed.WP13 / Outline wording

Electricity actually deliverable to the load under specified capacity, availability and quality conditions.WP01 / Outline wording

Expected inbound quantity whose commitment status and timing meet a defined planning acceptance rule.WP12 / Outline wording

Acceptance of the initial physical sample against the pre-agreed criteria, without concealing revisions.WP20 / Outline wording

Capital contractually assigned to absorb specified losses before another tranche, subject to the actual terms.WP13 / Outline wording

Share of units meeting acceptance criteria without rework on the first pass.WP01 / Outline wording

The proportion of units completing a process correctly without rework, repair or correction.WP02 / Outline wording

The share of production that meets the defined quality requirement without repair, reprocessing or rejection at the first attempt.WP06 / Outline wording

The proportion of units completed correctly without rework or repair at the defined inspection boundary.WP15 / Outline wording

Percentage of garments exiting the sewing line that pass inspection on the first attempt without requiring mending, stain removal or stitch alteration.WP09 / Outline wording

The percentage of garments exiting a sewing line that pass quality inspection on the first attempt without requiring rework or being downgraded to seconds.WP11 / Outline wording

The percentage of garments coming off a sewing line that pass final quality inspection on the first presentation without rework or rejection.WP19 / Outline wording

The percentage of garments or fabric rolls that pass through production and inspection complete and defect-free on the first attempt without rework or repair.WP03 / Outline wording

A recorded decision that a sample meets the agreed fit conditions for specified wearers, sizes and activities.WP10 / Outline wording

The movement of work through operations with controlled release, limited queues and short feedback on abnormalities.WP15 / Outline wording

Work involving coercion and lack of voluntary consent, assessed against the applicable legal definition and facts.WP17 / Outline wording

The agreed specification of decision, target, grain, horizon, information cut-off, availability rule, metric and ownership.WP04 / Outline wording

The full set of possible demand outcomes with associated probabilities or quantiles.WP04 / Outline wording

The distance between the forecast origin and the future period whose demand is being predicted.WP04 / Outline wording

The decision time at which the available information set ends and prediction begins.WP04 / Outline wording

Observed demand minus the forecast available at the decision date, measured on a consistent time basis.WP12 / Outline wording

The improvement in realised decisions attributable to a forecast after accounting for its operating costs and constraints.WP04 / Outline wording

A spectral decomposition technique that converts spatial fabric images into the frequency domain, isolating periodic warp-and-weft weave structures from localized non-periodic defects.WP03 / Outline wording

Water entering the defined site or process boundary from municipal, surface, groundwater or other freshwater sources.WP06 / Outline wording

Imported second-hand clothing traded in wholesale bales across French-speaking Central/West Africa (friperie) and East Africa (mitumba).WP11 / Outline wording

Employment measure normalised to a specified full-time hours basis rather than a simple headcount.WP13 / Outline wording

The part of overall safety that provides automatic protection in response to specified errors or hazardous conditions.WP18 / Outline wording

The quantified performance or service unit used as the reference for a product-level assessment.WP02 / Outline wording

The quantified function of a product system used as the reference for inputs, outputs and results.WP16 / Outline wording

Quantified service or output against which an environmental comparison is expressed.WP20 / Outline wording

A set of orientation- and frequency-tuned linear filters inspired by the human visual cortex, widely used to extract multi-scale directional texture features from woven and knitted fabrics.WP03 / Outline wording

The mechanical recycling process that feeds fabric clips through high-speed cylinders clothed with saw-tooth wire to shred woven or knitted structures back into loose staple fibres.WP11 / Outline wording

An assessment boundary covering operations from entry to exit of a defined facility or production system, excluding upstream and downstream stages.WP06 / Outline wording

A component that translates or transports data between device, network or application boundaries under a defined interface contract.WP18 / Outline wording

A measurement-system study of repeatability and reproducibility, used to assess variation from gauges or observers.WP02 / Outline wording

Glo-Djigbe Industrial Zone, a 1,640-hectare public-private industrial park 45 km from Cotonou Port in Benin hosting integrated spinning, weaving, knitting and garmenting factories (S03, S04).WP19 / Outline wording

A linked representation of material inputs, transformations and outputs.WP05 / Outline wording

Predetermined motion-time system engineered for the apparel industry that assigns standard time-measurement units to elementary fabric-handling and machine-stitching motions.WP09 / Outline wording

An EU preference framework for eligible developing countries, including EBA for least-developed countries.WP08 / Outline wording

Good international industry practice, interpreted for the project by appropriately qualified practitioners.WP13 / Outline wording

Immature seeds, short-staple fibres and lint fragments separated by lint cleaners during cotton ginning; recoverable for coarse non-wovens or cellulose pulp.WP11 / Outline wording

Separation and cleaning of cotton fibre from seed, with quality and weight consequences.WP01 / Outline wording

Lint weight divided by seed-cotton input weight on a consistently stated moisture and measurement basis.WP01 / Outline wording

The mass fraction of spinnable cotton lint recovered from raw harvested seed cotton during mechanical ginning.WP19 / Outline wording

A single forecasting function fitted across multiple series rather than independently for each series.WP04 / Outline wording

An international voluntary standard managed by Textile Exchange requiring at least 20 percent certified recycled content alongside chain-of-custody, social, environmental and chemical compliance.WP11 / Outline wording

A metric that expresses the relative radiative effect of a greenhouse gas compared with carbon dioxide over a selected time horizon.WP16 / Outline wording

A chemical depolymerisation route that reacts polyethylene terephthalate (polyester) with ethylene glycol at elevated temperature to cleave polymer chains back into bis(2-hydroxyethyl) terephthalate (BHET) monomer.WP11 / Outline wording

A garment meeting the defined acceptance condition at a named process boundary under the applicable counting rule.WP02 / Outline wording

Units that meet the stated quality requirement and are available for the next authorised stage or delivery.WP15 / Outline wording

Useful application payload successfully accepted per unit of elapsed time, distinguished from nominal link rate.WP07 / Outline wording

Materials moving between physical locations, with ownership and cost treatment determined separately.WP12 / Outline wording

The EU General Product Safety Regulation for products within its scope, including relevant online and offline sales.WP17 / Outline wording

An orderly termination that attempts to commit and close state before power or execution ends.WP07 / Outline wording

The controlled development of related pattern sizes from a base design using defined rules and checks.WP10 / Outline wording

Development of related garment pattern sizes according to a defined rule set and intended fit.WP20 / Outline wording

The intended alignment of a pattern piece with the fabric structure, recorded for cutting and behaviour.WP10 / Outline wording

Present-value measure of concessional support using explicitly stated reference cash flows and discount conventions.WP13 / Outline wording

The level of identification, such as product model, batch or serial item.WP05 / Outline wording

Debt instrument whose equivalent net proceeds are directed to eligible environmental projects under the applicable framework.WP13 / Outline wording

Loan financing eligible green projects with the required selection, proceeds-management and reporting processes.WP13 / Outline wording

Rainwater stored in soil and used by plants, distinguished from withdrawn blue water in water-footprint accounting.WP06 / Outline wording

A structured account of greenhouse gas emissions and, where applicable, removals within a defined boundary and period.WP16 / Outline wording

Unbleached, undyed raw woven or knitted cloth taken directly off the loom or knitting machine prior to wet processing.WP03 / Outline wording

Unbleached, undyed woven or knitted cloth taken directly off the loom or circular knitting machine prior to wet processing.WP11 / Outline wording

Unbleached, undyed woven or knitted cloth discharged directly from looms or circular knitting machines prior to wet processing and finishing (S23).WP19 / Outline wording

An indicator of freshwater required to assimilate a pollutant load to a stated water-quality standard, not a metered factory water flow.WP06 / Outline wording

A process through which affected people can raise concerns and seek an appropriate response without retaliation.WP17 / Outline wording

Tactile perception of fabric or print, which requires an appropriate physical assessment.WP20 / Outline wording

The legacy HIP term in the opened CmiA standard; the current webpage uses Segregation with a terminology explanation.WP05 / Outline wording

The international product-classification nomenclature used for tariffs, trade statistics and product-specific origin rules.WP08 / Outline wording

A device that uses external energy to transfer heat from a lower-temperature source to a higher-temperature sink.WP06 / Outline wording

A test example excluded from the relevant development or adjustment process to assess transfer beyond tuned examples.WP10 / Outline wording

Evaluation using cases excluded from calibration and workflow adjustment.WP20 / Outline wording

Adjustment of forecasts across aggregation levels so that component and total forecasts become coherent.WP04 / Outline wording

Hard Identity Preserved, a physical chain-of-custody tracking system used by Cotton made in Africa to segregate verified lint from ginnery to finished garment without mixing (S08, S10).WP19 / Outline wording

A system that stores time-ordered industrial observations and related context so trends, calculations and investigations can be reproduced.WP18 / Outline wording

Units completed in a stated hour, accompanied by the quality and work-context definitions needed for comparison.WP02 / Outline wording

The principal apparel chapters, covering knitted or crocheted clothing and non-knitted or non-crocheted clothing respectively.WP08 / Outline wording

The customs product classification used to identify the applicable tariff and origin rules.WP01 / Outline wording

Informed human authority to set thresholds, interpret limits, intervene, override and stop a system according to consequence.WP14 / Outline wording

The operational display and interaction surface through which people observe and, where authorised, operate a machine or process.WP18 / Outline wording

Colour-management data describing a device or colour-space transform for a stated workflow.WP20 / Outline wording

The reference shortest cycle used in an OEE performance calculation, with its basis explicitly documented.WP15 / Outline wording

Repeating an operation has the same intended effect as carrying it out once, under the specified contract.WP07 / Outline wording

The property that processing the same event again produces no additional unintended effect, enabling safe retry and replay.WP14 / Outline wording

Processing a repeated event submission without creating an additional business event or allocation.WP05 / Outline wording

Proposed control in which retrying a release request does not create an additional production job.WP20 / Outline wording

A custody approach intended to retain an identified source's distinct material identity, subject to scheme rules.WP05 / Outline wording

Four-tier competency classification grid grading workers from I (trainee under supervision) and L (independent execution) to U (meets target SMV and quality) and O (qualified to coach others).WP09 / Outline wording

The economic-operator role for introducing a product from outside the relevant market, as defined in the applicable law.WP17 / Outline wording

Assessment by a party with a stated degree of independence and authority, limited to its actual scope.WP05 / Outline wording

The governed chain of ownership, identifiers, events, quality controls, storage, models and decisions that connects factory work to reusable evidence.WP14 / Outline wording

The discipline of designing and improving work methods, capacity, layout, allocation and production control.WP15 / Outline wording

Connected sensors, devices, edge services and applications used to acquire and act on industrial operating data.WP18 / Outline wording

A circular industrial relationship in which the residual waste or co-product of one manufacturing process (such as CMT cutting clips or spinning card strips) serves as the raw-material input for another process.WP11 / Outline wording

A purpose-specific limit on certain reporting requests to protected undertakings; it is distinct from CSDDD request safeguards.WP17 / Outline wording

The time a receiving component records its acceptance of an event, distinct from source event time.WP07 / Outline wording

The time at which a system received an event record, used to diagnose delay, replay and late arrival.WP14 / Outline wording

Quality patrol method in which an inspector audits a random sample of 5 to 10 pieces at each sewing machine multiple times per shift to catch defects at the source.WP09 / Outline wording

Model-compression techniques that convert 32-bit floating-point neural weights and activations into 16-bit floating-point or 8-bit integer representations to accelerate edge GPU/NPU inference.WP03 / Outline wording

Agreement defining rights and coordination among creditors, including ranking, payment and enforcement matters.WP13 / Outline wording

Interest incurred before operations under the specified construction and financing schedule; payment or capitalisation must be explicit.WP13 / Outline wording

Goods and services consumed in production, distinguished from capital formation.WP01 / Outline wording

Demand that occurs sporadically, with some periods recording no demand.WP04 / Outline wording

The demonstrated ability of systems to exchange and use the information required for the intended workflow.WP10 / Outline wording

Defined planning quantity combining on-hand stock, outstanding supply and unfilled commitments without double counting.WP12 / Outline wording

An origin declaration made on an invoice or another permitted commercial document by an exporter who meets the applicable conditions.WP08 / Outline wording

Discount rate that sets the net present value of a specified cash-flow series to zero; project and equity series differ.WP13 / Outline wording

The enterprise-control integration framework, standardised in the IEC 62264 series, used to model interfaces and terminology between business and manufacturing systems.WP14 / Outline wording

A family of standards for enterprise-control integration, manufacturing operations, asset organisation and shared information models.WP18 / Outline wording

The international standard specifying principles, requirements and guidelines for water-footprint assessment based on life-cycle assessment.WP06 / Outline wording

The foundational International Organization for Standardization standard defining circular economy vocabulary, core principles (such as resource stewardship and traceability) and implementation guidance.WP11 / Outline wording

The ISO standard specifying sustainability, traceability and safe social conditions (including for subsistence waste workers) in the recovery of secondary raw materials.WP11 / Outline wording

The ISO standard establishing mandatory and optional quantitative indicators for measuring and assessing circularity performance within defined system boundaries.WP11 / Outline wording

Replenishment rule, parameter set, constraints and approval authority for one item at one location.WP12 / Outline wording

Quality at source through detection, stopping or containment of abnormalities and response to their causes.WP15 / Outline wording

A structured text format for data; valid syntax does not ensure that its values describe a valid garment.WP10 / Outline wording

A forecast formed through structured human expertise, either alone or in combination with statistical evidence.WP04 / Outline wording

Incremental improvement carried out through repeated observation, testing and standardisation.WP15 / Outline wording

A signal that authorises defined production or movement in a pull system.WP15 / Outline wording

A defined measure used to assess an outcome or process and support a named management decision.WP02 / Outline wording

A defined measure with a formula, source elements, time behaviour, unit and decision purpose.WP18 / Outline wording

Heuristic assembly-line balancing algorithm that groups operations into precedence columns and assigns tasks to workstations to minimise idle time within a target cycle time.WP09 / Outline wording

Formation of fabric by interlooping yarn.WP01 / Outline wording

Key performance indicator with a defined scope, calculation, owner and evidence source.WP13 / Outline wording

The traceable translation of strategic outcomes into family, plant, line and station measures.WP02 / Outline wording

The governed register of each indicator's purpose, formula, inputs, unit, time basis, grain, exclusions, owner and version.WP14 / Outline wording

Mandatory or voluntary product information whose content, format and responsibility depend on the relevant rule.WP17 / Outline wording

The full cost of bringing a product to its destination, including the relevant product, duty, charge, logistics, compliance and delay costs.WP08 / Outline wording

Cost assigned to bringing an input to a stated location and condition, with dated currency and contractual assumptions.WP12 / Outline wording

Line-balancing heuristic that sequences eligible operations in descending order of their standard task duration and assigns them to stations without violating precedence or cycle time.WP09 / Outline wording

The unobserved amount customers would have wanted in the absence of availability or other observation constraints.WP04 / Outline wording

Levelised Cost of Electricity, the discounted lifetime cost per kilowatt-hour of electricity generated by a power asset such as utility or captive solar photovoltaics (S33).WP19 / Outline wording

Elapsed time between two declared order or production events, with waiting and processing components identified where possible.WP02 / Outline wording

Demand occurring during the interval from an effective replenishment decision to usable receipt.WP12 / Outline wording

Variation in elapsed delivery time, which affects service levels, buffer stocks and cash.WP01 / Outline wording

Information that would be unavailable at the forecast origin entering training, features, preprocessing or evaluation and inflating apparent skill.WP04 / Outline wording

The observed change in operator or line performance as experience accumulates.WP15 / Outline wording

Granting a person or process only the access required for its assigned task, for only as long as needed.WP14 / Outline wording

The consecutive and interlinked stages of a product system, from raw-material acquisition to final disposition.WP16 / Outline wording

The compilation and evaluation of inputs, outputs and potential environmental impacts throughout a product's life cycle.WP16 / Outline wording

The phase that evaluates the magnitude and significance of potential environmental impacts from inventory results.WP16 / Outline wording

The phase that compiles and quantifies the inputs and outputs belonging to a product system.WP16 / Outline wording

A method for compiling and evaluating inputs, outputs and potential environmental impacts across a product system's defined life cycle.WP06 / Outline wording

The allocation and adjustment of work among operations to improve flow against available capacity and skill.WP02 / Outline wording

The allocation of operations and resources across workstations to achieve feasible flow at the required rhythm.WP15 / Outline wording

Ratio of total Standard Allowed Minutes produced by a sewing line (good output multiplied by garment SAM) to total operator minutes attended on the line.WP09 / Outline wording

In this paper's labour context, earned standard minutes divided by attended labour minutes, with any alternative definition separately declared.WP15 / Outline wording

An industrial camera containing a single row (or trilinear RGB rows) of pixel sensors that builds a continuous two-dimensional image line by line as fabric moves past on rollers.WP03 / Outline wording

An optical sensor array capturing continuous row-by-row images of moving fabric webs at speeds up to 60 metres a minute for automated computer-vision defect detection (R29).WP19 / Outline wording

Cotton fibre separated from the seed by ginning; the relevant material for spinning intake.WP01 / Outline wording

Cotton fibre separated from seed during ginning.WP05 / Outline wording

Short, fuzzy cellulosic fibres (<5 to 6 mm) that remain attached to the cottonseed hull after ginning removes spinnable lint; delinted in first and second cuts for medical cotton, speciality paper and dissolving pulp.WP11 / Outline wording

Cash or committed accessible facility earmarked for a defined timing risk; it does not itself generate operating profit.WP13 / Outline wording

The stated ratio of textile mass to processing-liquor volume for a machine or process, distinct from total site water per accepted unit.WP06 / Outline wording

The stable-system relationship in which average WIP equals average throughput rate multiplied by average throughput time.WP15 / Outline wording

Stable-system relationship linking average inventory to average throughput multiplied by average time within a consistent boundary.WP12 / Outline wording

A forecasting function fitted independently to one product, location or other individual series.WP04 / Outline wording

A proposed operating pattern in which required site duties and records remain available within a defined local boundary.WP07 / Outline wording

Domestic-origin lint actually entering qualifying domestic conversion beyond ginning, divided by domestic lint production for the defined period, with stock and coverage adjustments disclosed.WP01 / Outline wording

A Scope 2 method that uses the average emissions intensity of the grids where electricity consumption occurs.WP16 / Outline wording

A World Bank survey-based assessment of six dimensions of logistics performance, complemented in the 2023 edition by tracking indicators.WP08 / Outline wording

Demand that is not fulfilled and does not remain as a backorder.WP12 / Outline wording

A defined quantity treated as a common unit for custody and record keeping.WP05 / Outline wording

Dyeing with reduced processing-liquor volume relative to a defined conventional machine route, subject to quality and whole-cycle verification.WP06 / Outline wording

A direct solvent-spinning process for regenerated cellulose fibres that dissolves pulp in aqueous N-Methylmorpholine N-oxide (NMMO) with over 99 percent solvent recovery and no carbon disulphide derivatisation.WP11 / Outline wording

Cash spending required to sustain the productive asset base rather than add the modelled growth capacity.WP13 / Outline wording

A system that manages and records manufacturing operations and their execution close to the production process.WP02 / Outline wording

Software that supports the execution, recording and coordination of production orders, resources, operations and shop-floor events.WP18 / Outline wording

The activities that coordinate and optimise production, quality, inventory, personnel, equipment and related information within manufacturing operations.WP18 / Outline wording

List governing specified substances in chemical formulations used during manufacture; distinguish it from finished-product restrictions.WP20 / Outline wording

Arrangement of pattern pieces on fabric for cutting, including direction and placement constraints.WP20 / Outline wording

The ratio of the total surface area of nested garment pattern pieces to the total rectangular area of the cutting marker plan, expressed as a percentage.WP11 / Outline wording

The EU regulation providing market access and origin arrangements for eligible ACP states, including Cameroon.WP08 / Outline wording

A Scope 2 method that uses emissions associated with electricity specifically chosen through contracts or instruments that meet quality criteria.WP16 / Outline wording

Mean absolute scaled error, an accuracy measure that scales absolute forecast error by an available naive benchmark and is undefined when that denominator is absent or zero.WP04 / Outline wording

A reconciliation of material entering, leaving, remaining in stock or recorded as loss within a stated boundary.WP01 / Outline wording

A model that accounts for eligible input and output quantities under specified rules; it does not by itself identify each product's physical fibre origin.WP05 / Outline wording

An accounting protocol that reconciles the mass of certified inputs entering a production process against the mass of certified outputs plus empirically verified process losses.WP11 / Outline wording

Delivery of bounded product variations through a repeatable production system.WP20 / Outline wording

Controlled reference information about entities such as styles, operations, defects, machines and meters.WP02 / Outline wording

Relatively stable records describing entities such as assets, lines, styles, operations and units that give transactional events their context.WP14 / Outline wording

A collection of simulation material inputs whose measurement or estimation basis should be declared.WP10 / Outline wording

Time-phased netting and bill-of-material explosion of dependent requirements and available supply.WP12 / Outline wording

A relevance determination under a specified reporting or decision framework; it does not waive product safety or worker protection.WP17 / Outline wording

An evidence-based condition that must be met before a factory advances to a more complex operating or digital stage.WP02 / Outline wording

The standard object-detection benchmark metric computing the mean of average precision integrals across all defect classes at a specified Intersection-over-Union threshold (such as mAP@0.5).WP03 / Outline wording

Average operating time elapsed between consecutive mechanical or electrical breakdowns of a repairable sewing or cutting machine.WP09 / Outline wording

Average elapsed time required to restore a failed sewing machine to full stitch-tested operation, encompassing notification, diagnosis, wrench repair and restart verification.WP09 / Outline wording

The disciplined use of boundaries, meters, baselines and calculations to quantify and check the result of an improvement measure.WP06 / Outline wording

The units and conditions, including moisture or packaging treatment, that give a quantity its meaning.WP05 / Outline wording

A sodium-hydroxide treatment of cotton that can change lustre, strength, absorbency and dye behaviour while adding chemical, rinse and heat duties.WP06 / Outline wording

Structured information that describes a dataset or artefact, including meaning, origin, version, quality, rights and retention.WP14 / Outline wording

Most-favoured-nation tariff treatment applicable under the relevant customs schedule, subject to its legal scope.WP01 / Outline wording

A brief interruption that may not stop a full shift report but still reduces effective performance.WP15 / Outline wording

Use of no more concessional support than required to address the evidenced financing obstacle.WP13 / Outline wording

Smallest order quantity a supplier will accept under specified terms.WP12 / Outline wording

The practices and controls used to develop, validate, release, monitor and retire machine-learning systems reliably in their operating context.WP14 / Outline wording

A controlled record of model artefacts, versions, evidence, approval and lifecycle status.WP14 / Outline wording

The controlled withdrawal of a model from use while preserving the records needed to explain its historical outputs and decisions.WP14 / Outline wording

The convention for water content used when weighing, pricing or comparing fibre.WP01 / Outline wording

Engineering a garment so that its body fabric, sewing thread, labels and trims share a single polymer family (such as 100 percent cellulosic cotton/lyocell) to enable direct recycling without component disassembly.WP11 / Outline wording

A collection of visual references expressing creative direction rather than a complete manufacturing instruction.WP10 / Outline wording

The non-discriminatory tariff treatment applied among WTO members unless a preferential arrangement provides a different rate.WP08 / Outline wording

A client-server publish/subscribe messaging transport with specified delivery qualities and session behaviour.WP07 / Outline wording

A client-server publish-subscribe messaging transport that requires separate payload schemas and operational semantics.WP14 / Outline wording

A publish-subscribe messaging protocol suited to constrained clients and networks, which requires separate conventions for payload and factory meaning.WP18 / Outline wording

A manufacturing restricted substances list, which controls chemical inputs to production rather than only residues in the finished article.WP06 / Outline wording

The primary international computer-vision benchmark dataset for unsupervised industrial anomaly detection across 15 texture and object categories including carpet, grid and leather.WP03 / Outline wording

Specified maximum output or input rate under stated design conditions, not actual production.WP01 / Outline wording

The stated capacity of a machine or line under its design assumptions, before actual operating losses.WP15 / Outline wording

An OECD National Contact Point that promotes responsible business conduct and handles qualifying non-judicial specific instances.WP17 / Outline wording

A non-destructive optical technique measuring reflectance in the 700 to 2,500 nm wavelength band to identify textile fibre polymers and blends from their molecular bond vibrations.WP11 / Outline wording

Estimated selling price in ordinary business less estimated completion and necessary selling costs, as described by IAS 2.WP12 / Outline wording

A protocol for synchronising computer clocks across networks, commonly used for general server, edge and application time alignment.WP18 / Outline wording

Single-period inventory model balancing the incremental costs of ordering too little and too much.WP12 / Outline wording

A post-processing step in object detectors that eliminates redundant overlapping bounding boxes around a single detected defect.WP03 / Outline wording

A policy measure other than a tariff affecting trade, and such a measure when it restricts or distorts trade respectively.WP08 / Outline wording

Adjustment or stratification for relevant variables such as production volume, fabric, shade or operating conditions to improve comparability.WP06 / Outline wording

A reference mark used to help locate, align or assemble pattern pieces.WP10 / Outline wording

Present value of a cash-flow series using a stated discount rate, timing basis and currency.WP13 / Outline wording

Network Time Protocol, used to synchronise clocks across networked systems.WP07 / Outline wording

Network Time Security, a cryptographic mechanism for network time synchronisation.WP07 / Outline wording

Overall Equipment Effectiveness, the composite factory productivity metric calculated as the product of machine availability, operating performance speed, and first-pass quality rate.WP19 / Outline wording

A purchase arrangement whose quantity, quality, timing, pricing and enforceability must be specified.WP01 / Outline wording

The share of orders delivered within the agreed window and with the complete agreed quantity.WP08 / Outline wording

Production triggered by confirmed demand under an explicitly defined order-commitment policy.WP20 / Outline wording

The proportion of orders meeting the agreed delivery date and quantity under stated partial-shipment and receipt rules.WP02 / Outline wording

Order-level delivery metric requiring the agreed complete quantity by the agreed date under a defined acceptance rule.WP12 / Outline wording

OPC Unified Architecture, an industrial interoperability framework that includes information modelling and secure communication.WP14 / Outline wording

An industrial interoperability architecture whose information and service model is separated from underlying transport and computing technology.WP18 / Outline wording

A high-speed yarn spinning system that feeds individual opened fibres into a rapidly rotating rotor groove rather than using a ring and traveller, tolerating shorter mechanically recycled cotton fibres.WP11 / Outline wording

The output or revenue level covering defined operating costs, distinct from cash breakeven or investor return.WP01 / Outline wording

Sequential engineering list of every cutting, fusing, sewing and finishing operation required to assemble a garment, specifying machine type, attachment and SMV per step.WP09 / Outline wording

The ordered list of operations, methods, times, machines and skills required to make a garment.WP15 / Outline wording

Hardware and software that monitor or control physical devices and processes, where performance, reliability and safety are primary constraints.WP14 / Outline wording

Hardware and software that monitors or controls physical devices, processes and industrial operations, with distinct performance and safety needs.WP18 / Outline wording

Target inventory position used to calculate replenishment at a review event.WP12 / Outline wording

An exporter's declaration of preferential origin made in the form and circumstances allowed by the applicable agreement.WP08 / Outline wording

The process by which customs or another competent authority checks the goods, documents and production evidence supporting an origin claim.WP08 / Outline wording

On-Time In-Full, the delivery reliability measure tracking the share of customer or institutional apparel orders dispatched in complete quantities by the agreed date.WP19 / Outline wording

The declared combinations, durations and consequences of failures against which a design is assessed.WP07 / Outline wording

A durable set of pending-delivery records committed with the corresponding local business events.WP07 / Outline wording

Incremental economic loss from a unit ordered beyond demand in a specified inventory model.WP12 / Outline wording

A composite production measure formed from availability, performance and quality components.WP02 / Outline wording

A production measure combining availability, performance and quality, used here alongside resource intensity rather than as its substitute.WP06 / Outline wording

The product of availability, performance and quality under a declared measurement protocol.WP15 / Outline wording

A manufacturing KPI that combines availability, performance and quality under an explicit calculation and time boundary.WP18 / Outline wording

The foundational manufacturing productivity metric calculated as the product of Availability, Performance and Quality (Right First Time).WP03 / Outline wording

Composite manufacturing metric calculated as the product of machine Availability, speed Performance and First-Pass Quality.WP09 / Outline wording

A documented human change to a model forecast, retained with its reason and later outcome for evaluation.WP04 / Outline wording

An individual garment pattern component with geometry and relationships to other pieces.WP10 / Outline wording

A pattern constructed or modified through defined parameters and relationships.WP10 / Outline wording

Sharing statistical strength across groups while allowing each group to retain its own parameters and uncertainty.WP04 / Outline wording

Simulation-resolution setting whose meaning and effect depend on the software implementation.WP20 / Outline wording

Leading one-class industrial anomaly detection frameworks that model normal texture patches using pretrained CNN embeddings and memory banks or multivariate Gaussian distributions.WP03 / Outline wording

Product Environmental Footprint Category Rules, the product-specific rules used within the PEF method.WP16 / Outline wording

Legal steps required to establish or protect the relevant security rights against specified parties; jurisdiction-specific.WP13 / Outline wording

The OEE component comparing actual production rate with the declared ideal rate during operating time.WP15 / Outline wording

The OEE component comparing actual production speed with the defined reference rate during running time.WP02 / Outline wording

Inventory policy that assesses replenishment at scheduled intervals.WP12 / Outline wording

Material garment or swatch used to test defined construction, fit, appearance or performance requirements.WP20 / Outline wording

A distinct physical prototyping and review iteration, with its cost and outcome recorded.WP10 / Outline wording

Plateforme Industrielle d'Adetikope, a 400-hectare integrated industrial zone located 15 km north of Lome, Togo, developed by the Republic of Togo and ARISE IIP (S14, S15).WP19 / Outline wording

Compensation linked to the number of pieces produced, requiring explicit quality, safety and fairness safeguards.WP02 / Outline wording

Colouration route that attaches insoluble colourants through an appropriate binding system.WP20 / Outline wording

A thermal-integration method for identifying heat-recovery opportunities and utility targets from hot and cold process streams.WP06 / Outline wording

Theoretical ideal time per workstation required to balance a garment line, calculated as total garment SMV divided by the number of operators on the line.WP09 / Outline wording

The governing line rhythm used in a specific balancing model, not automatically interchangeable with takt or station cycle.WP15 / Outline wording

A legally defined first-supply event whose precise meaning and territorial scope depend on the applicable product rule.WP17 / Outline wording

An iterative improvement cycle for planning a change, testing it, studying results and acting on what is learned.WP02 / Outline wording

The scheduled time intentionally allocated to production after stated non-production exclusions.WP15 / Outline wording

A defined garment dimension with specified landmarks, method and units.WP10 / Outline wording

Cover for defined non-commercial events under a policy’s eligibility, exclusions, waiting periods and claims terms.WP13 / Outline wording

Deliberate cross-training of sewing operators across two or more distinct machine types and critical operations to insulate line balance against absenteeism and style changeovers.WP09 / Outline wording

Delay of product differentiation or another irreversible commitment until additional demand information is available.WP12 / Outline wording

Delaying a product-specific production commitment until additional demand or specification information is available.WP20 / Outline wording

Material diverted from the waste stream during manufacturing (such as spinning waste, weaving selvedges, cutting-room clips and unsold deadstock) before the product ever reaches a consumer.WP11 / Outline wording

Preparation applied before printing to achieve required process and print behaviour.WP20 / Outline wording

A required sequence relationship that limits where operations can be assigned or combined.WP15 / Outline wording

The IEEE 1588 clock-synchronisation protocol used where networked measurement and control require precise time alignment.WP18 / Outline wording

A range intended to contain the realised value with a stated probability under the forecast model and its assumptions.WP04 / Outline wording

The difference between the otherwise applicable tariff and the preferential tariff for the same product and shipment.WP08 / Outline wording

The value of eligible imports claiming a preference divided by the value of imports eligible for that preference, using a stated product and period denominator.WP08 / Outline wording

Data collected for the specific activity, process, site or product under study.WP16 / Outline wording

The initial evidence-based distribution or belief about demand before target observations are incorporated.WP04 / Outline wording

A forecast that represents uncertainty through probabilities, quantiles, intervals or a full distribution.WP04 / Outline wording

Water directly used in preparation, dyeing, printing, rinsing, finishing or other manufacturing operations, distinguished from unrelated site uses.WP06 / Outline wording

A collective body (such as Refashion in France) accredited by the state to collect EPR fees from brands and organise national textile waste collection, sorting and recycling.WP11 / Outline wording

Stable descriptors such as category, fabric, colour, silhouette, price band and occasion used to compare or model items.WP04 / Outline wording

Detailed rules that make life cycle studies within a product category consistent in areas such as boundary, allocation and reporting.WP16 / Outline wording

A European method for assessing environmental impacts across a product life cycle using defined category rules where applicable.WP06 / Outline wording

A European Commission method for assessing life cycle environmental impacts across multiple impact categories.WP16 / Outline wording

The origin requirement assigned to a particular HS heading or subheading in an agreement's product list.WP08 / Outline wording

The output or activity basis used to normalise a resource, cost or impact measure.WP02 / Outline wording

An industrial controller that executes machine or process logic and exposes selected states and commands through supported interfaces.WP18 / Outline wording

Conventional garment production layout in which cut garment parts move sequentially from workstation to workstation in tied bundles of 20 to 40 pieces.WP09 / Outline wording

Financing structured primarily around project cash flows and contractual risk allocation; actual recourse varies.WP13 / Outline wording

The documentary evidence required by the applicable trade arrangement and customs procedure.WP01 / Outline wording

The declared intended use of a cryptographic proof, checked to prevent misuse in another context.WP05 / Outline wording

The defined equipment and auxiliaries supplied by a continuity power path for specified digital duties.WP07 / Outline wording

An undertaking meeting the amended Accounting Directive conditions for protection from specified reporting-information demands.WP17 / Outline wording

Horizon whose uncertain demand a stock policy must cover, including a review gap where applicable.WP12 / Outline wording

The documented history and origin of material or a product within a stated boundary.WP05 / Outline wording

The recorded origin and transformation history of data or an artefact; it does not itself confer legal permission.WP10 / Outline wording

Evidence about where a record or artefact came from, which processes changed it and which agents were responsible.WP14 / Outline wording

An AfCFTA tariff schedule used to begin preferential trade while remaining tariff-book negotiations continue.WP08 / Outline wording

Secondary data from a similar activity used to fill a gap for the activity under study.WP16 / Outline wording

Production controlled by downstream authorisation rather than upstream output for its own sake.WP15 / Outline wording

Qualifying Industrial Zone, designated Egyptian manufacturing zones whose exports enter the United States duty-free when meeting a 35 percent regional value-content rule including 10.5 percent Israeli inputs (S19, S22).WP19 / Outline wording

A machine-readable state that tells a consumer whether a value is good, stale, missing, estimated, corrected or otherwise limited.WP18 / Outline wording

The OEE component representing good units relative to total units started or produced under the chosen boundary.WP15 / Outline wording

A demand value below which a stated proportion of the predictive distribution falls.WP04 / Outline wording

A controlled state that isolates failed records from normal consumption while preserving them for diagnosis, correction and reprocessing.WP14 / Outline wording

Stock unavailable for use pending inspection, investigation or authorised release.WP12 / Outline wording

South Africa's Retail-Clothing, Textile, Footwear and Leather social compact aligning major retailers, manufacturers, labour and government to reach 65 percent local retail sales share by 2030 (S16, S17).WP19 / Outline wording

The Reference Architecture Model Industrie 4.0, a three-dimensional framework for classifying assets, hierarchy levels and life-cycle stages.WP18 / Outline wording

Line-balancing heuristic that prioritises operations according to the sum of their own processing time plus the processing times of all downstream dependent tasks.WP09 / Outline wording

Software that converts artwork into the data and process instructions required by the printing system.WP20 / Outline wording

The EU framework for chemicals regulation, including relevant obligations for substances, mixtures and articles such as clothing.WP08 / Outline wording

The EU chemicals regulation, including restrictions that can apply to substances in imported articles.WP17 / Outline wording

Use of reactive dyes with a compatible fibre and fixation and washing process.WP20 / Outline wording

A product-safety measure aimed at getting an affected product back from users, distinct from preventing further supply.WP17 / Outline wording

Sale or financing of receivables at a discount, subject to eligibility, acceptance, recourse and other agreed terms.WP13 / Outline wording

Assessment and validation mechanism operated by Cameroon's MINEFOP to award formal national credentials to workers who acquired trade skills in the informal economy.WP09 / Outline wording

Comparing retained records and resolving missing, duplicated or conflicting events with an auditable decision.WP07 / Outline wording

The difference between observed and modelled closing quantity under a stated sign convention.WP05 / Outline wording

The acceptable boundary of data loss after a disruption, defined for the relevant service and record class.WP07 / Outline wording

The maximum targeted interval of data loss after disruption, set by business consequence and verified through recovery evidence.WP14 / Outline wording

The maximum tolerated loss of data measured backwards from a disruption, set by the process owner and tested through restoration.WP18 / Outline wording

The agreed time within which a specified service or operation should be restored after a disruption.WP07 / Outline wording

The targeted time to restore a service or record set after disruption, verified through an exercised recovery procedure.WP14 / Outline wording

The target elapsed time for restoring a service or operating capability after disruption, verified through an exercise.WP18 / Outline wording

A Textile Exchange standard verifying the chain of custody and percentage of recycled content (minimum 5 percent) in products without the additional social and chemical audits of GRS.WP11 / Outline wording

A reusable specification of responsibilities, components, interfaces and constraints that guides implementations without prescribing one supplier stack.WP18 / Outline wording

A documented set of comparable past cases whose outcome distribution informs an outside-view forecast.WP04 / Outline wording

The quantity of product or material required to fulfil the defined unit of analysis.WP02 / Outline wording

The quantity of product required to deliver the functional unit within the studied system.WP16 / Outline wording

The accountable role authorised to approve a defined specification state for its intended downstream use.WP10 / Outline wording

An appropriate response addressing harm to affected people; a corrected report alone may not constitute remedy.WP17 / Outline wording

Inventory-position threshold that triggers replenishment under a continuous-review policy.WP12 / Outline wording

An artwork unit intended to repeat across a surface at a specified scale and orientation.WP10 / Outline wording

Resending or reprocessing retained events after interruption, subject to deduplication and acknowledgement rules.WP07 / Outline wording

A communication pattern that publishes changed values rather than repeatedly sending unchanged data, while retaining session-state awareness.WP18 / Outline wording

A repeated or corrective operation such as re-dyeing, stripping, additional washing or repair after the first process fails release.WP06 / Outline wording

A service that directs an identifier request to related information or services under defined rules.WP05 / Outline wording

Resource use per defined accepted output unit within a stated process boundary.WP01 / Outline wording

Order whose net commercial outcome is measured after the defined cancellation, refund and return window.WP20 / Outline wording

A membrane separation process using pressure to produce permeate and a concentrated residual stream, with associated energy and maintenance demands.WP06 / Outline wording

A status change withdrawing acceptance of a credential under its governing policy.WP05 / Outline wording

Additional work required to correct a unit that did not meet requirements on its first completion.WP02 / Outline wording

Observation whose eventual completion time exceeds the end of the measurement window.WP12 / Outline wording

The operating condition in which work meets requirements without correction, commonly expressed through first-pass yield.WP02 / Outline wording

Completion without defect, rework or repair at the defined process step.WP15 / Outline wording

Quality discipline and performance measure tracking the proportion of units processed through a station or line with zero defects on the initial pass.WP09 / Outline wording

Achievement of the specified colour or product result without correction or another production cycle, measured under a defined release rule.WP06 / Outline wording

Combining compatible requirements or resources to reduce uncertainty exposure, conditional on dependence and service constraints.WP12 / Outline wording

Selecting investigation or action by severity, likelihood and context under the relevant framework.WP17 / Outline wording

A tested return to a previously approved model, configuration or operating procedure after a release is suspended.WP14 / Outline wording

Repeated backtesting from successive forecast origins to assess performance across time and information conditions.WP04 / Outline wording

An electro-mechanical sensor mounted on a fabric inspection roller that emits pulses proportional to linear web travel, synchronising line-scan camera acquisition to exact millimetre increments.WP03 / Outline wording

Criteria determining whether a product qualifies as originating under a trade arrangement.WP01 / Outline wording

The Access2Markets tool used to check product-specific preferential origin requirements and associated documents.WP08 / Outline wording

Buffer intended to protect a defined service outcome against uncertainty beyond expected demand.WP12 / Outline wording

Statutory cross-sector monthly minimum wage in Cameroon, set at XAF 43,969 per month from 23 February 2024 for a standard 40-hour working week.WP09 / Outline wording

Finished output meeting the agreed quality and commercial acceptance requirements.WP01 / Outline wording

The recurring management process that reconciles demand, supply, capacity and financial plans at an agreed aggregate level.WP02 / Outline wording

Supervisory control and data acquisition, the class of systems used to monitor and supervise distributed industrial processes.WP18 / Outline wording

A conditional view of demand under specified changes to price, policy, promotion, supply or another assumption.WP04 / Outline wording

A formal description of required data structures, fields, types and relationships.WP10 / Outline wording

The formal structure of a record, including fields, types, required values and constraints.WP14 / Outline wording

Direct greenhouse-gas emissions from sources owned or controlled by the reporting organisation.WP02 / Outline wording

Direct greenhouse gas emissions from sources owned or controlled by the reporting organisation.WP16 / Outline wording

Indirect greenhouse-gas emissions associated with purchased or acquired electricity, steam, heat and cooling.WP02 / Outline wording

Indirect greenhouse-gas emissions from purchased or acquired electricity, steam, heat and cooling under GHG Protocol accounting.WP06 / Outline wording

Indirect emissions from the generation of purchased or acquired electricity, steam, heat and cooling.WP16 / Outline wording

Other indirect greenhouse-gas emissions occurring in the reporting organisation's value chain.WP02 / Outline wording

Other indirect emissions occurring in the reporting organisation's value chain, divided into 15 upstream and downstream categories.WP16 / Outline wording

Value-chain greenhouse-gas emissions within a defined accounting framework; not itself a product import tax.WP17 / Outline wording

Evidence that an organisation, site or activity falls within a certification scope during a stated period.WP05 / Outline wording

An annual facility-level certificate issued by an accredited certification body verifying that a factory or mill is qualified to process and handle certified materials under GRS or RCS.WP11 / Outline wording

An initial estimate used to identify significant activities, evidence gaps and priorities for more precise work.WP16 / Outline wording

Material outside an intended stitching line retained for assembly or finishing.WP10 / Outline wording

The relationship identifying which pattern boundaries are to be joined, including order and direction.WP10 / Outline wording

An unacceptable wavy or wrinkled distortion along a sewn garment seam caused by thread tension imbalance, structural jamming, differential feed or fabric shrinkage.WP03 / Outline wording

A baseline that repeats the value from the corresponding previous seasonal period.WP04 / Outline wording

Industry-average, database, literature, financial, proxy or other data not collected for the specific activity under study.WP16 / Outline wording

Appointed party responsible for specified security functions under the governing law and financing documents.WP13 / Outline wording

Harvested cotton containing fibre, seeds and other material before ginning.WP01 / Outline wording

Harvested cotton containing fibre and seed before ginning; its mass must not be substituted for lint mass.WP05 / Outline wording

Small, time-bound group of imported master supervisors and chief mechanics contracted with explicit local-trainee handoff milestones rather than permanent line-boss roles.WP09 / Outline wording

Keeping eligible material apart from ineligible material while preserving the specified claimed class.WP05 / Outline wording

Sales to the final customer through a retail or distribution channel, distinct from shipments into that channel.WP04 / Outline wording

The ability of exchanging systems to interpret shared information with the same operational meaning, units, state and context.WP18 / Outline wording

A test of how results change when an assumption, method, activity value or emission factor is varied.WP16 / Outline wording

The declared condition in which a running service can perform its promised function, rather than merely exist as a process.WP07 / Outline wording

Operating a model on live inputs without allowing its outputs to affect decisions, used to collect release evidence.WP14 / Outline wording

Operation of a candidate recommendation process without executing its proposed orders.WP12 / Outline wording

Prepared for a specified simulation workflow; it does not automatically mean production-ready.WP10 / Outline wording

The customs declaration document used within the EU clearance process, alongside required supporting evidence.WP08 / Outline wording

Origin approaches distinguished by whether qualifying origin requires one or two substantial production stages in the participating territory.WP08 / Outline wording

A rule of origin permitting duty-free export of apparel cut and sewn locally from fabric imported from third countries outside the preference zone (S11, S27).WP19 / Outline wording

Movement of one unit at a time between adjacent operations, with no inter-operator bundle inventory in the strict definition.WP15 / Outline wording

Stock keeping unit, the identified product variant at which availability and sales are recorded.WP04 / Outline wording

A changeover-reduction method that separates internal and external setup, converts work where possible and simplifies the remainder.WP15 / Outline wording

Salaire Minimum Interprofessionnel Garanti, the statutory national minimum wage in Cameroon, raised by 5 percent to XAF 43,969 a month in February 2024 (R14).WP19 / Outline wording

Strategie Nationale de Developpement 2020-2030, Cameroon's ten-year national development strategy targeting 50 percent domestic processing of national cotton fibre by 2030 (R07, S30).WP19 / Outline wording

Societe de Developpement du Coton du Cameroun, the northern Cameroonian cotton enterprise supporting over 220,000 smallholder growers across nine ginneries and two oil mills (R03, R04).WP19 / Outline wording

The time assigned where an observation or event originated, preserved separately from later gateway receipt or storage times.WP18 / Outline wording

Reconciled statement of funding sources, expenditure, reserves and timing.WP13 / Outline wording

Energy used divided by production output for a stated energy and product boundary, usually requiring normalisation for comparison.WP06 / Outline wording

Conversion of fibre into yarn of a specified construction and quality.WP01 / Outline wording

Sustainability performance target tied to a defined KPI, observation period and methodology.WP13 / Outline wording

Measurement of isotope ratios that may corroborate geographic origin using suitable reference data and qualification.WP05 / Outline wording

An explicit decision to proceed, remedy, defer or stop against prospectively defined evidence requirements.WP01 / Outline wording

Engineering time standard for a garment or operation combining basic observed cycle time at standard rating with percentage allowances for fatigue, personal needs and machine delay.WP09 / Outline wording

The standard work content of a task under a specified method for qualified workers applying ordinary effort.WP02 / Outline wording

The standard time assigned to a defined garment operation or to the sum of operations needed for a garment.WP15 / Outline wording

The current approved method, sequence, timing and resources for performing a task consistently.WP02 / Outline wording

The documented current method, sequence, timing and in-process stock used as the baseline for operation and improvement.WP15 / Outline wording

The use of statistical methods and historical behaviour to understand variation and identify abnormal process conditions.WP02 / Outline wording

A fabric-transport machine used for operations including drying, heat setting and finishing under controlled temperature and tension.WP06 / Outline wording

Distinct inventory item tracked under an agreed specification, such as a style-colour-size variant.WP12 / Outline wording

A period or event in which a product cannot be bought because available inventory is exhausted.WP04 / Outline wording

Retaining data durably until a suitable onward communication opportunity is available.WP07 / Outline wording

Durable local buffering of records during disconnection, followed by controlled synchronisation when communication returns.WP14 / Outline wording

A continuity pattern that persists data locally during communication failure and forwards it under controlled ordering and reconciliation after recovery.WP18 / Outline wording

Printed material sample used to assess and approve an artwork and process combination.WP20 / Outline wording

Transfer printing route in which a suitable disperse dye moves under heat into a compatible substrate.WP20 / Outline wording

Funding whose rights to payment or recovery rank behind other specified claims under its terms.WP13 / Outline wording

The level of working or processing required for non-wholly obtained inputs to acquire preferential origin under the applicable rule.WP08 / Outline wording

A supplier statement with a defined issuer, scope and evidence basis; it is not necessarily independent assurance.WP17 / Outline wording

Data generated by a computational process rather than directly collected as the corresponding real-world observations.WP10 / Outline wording

Loan with local-currency denomination or economic terms but hard-currency disbursement and repayment under agreed conversion rules.WP13 / Outline wording

The set of criteria determining which processes and flows belong to the product system or inventory.WP16 / Outline wording

A way of handling multi-functionality by adding the functions or displaced products associated with co-products rather than allocating between them.WP16 / Outline wording

The authoritative source for a defined entity or transaction, including its correction and reconciliation rules.WP02 / Outline wording

The authoritative source for a defined class of information, with other copies explicitly subordinate or derived.WP14 / Outline wording

The authoritative source for a defined class of data and its history, with explicit ownership and rules for correction and synchronisation.WP18 / Outline wording

The available production time divided by required customer demand for a defined period and product scope.WP02 / Outline wording

Available production time divided by required good demand over the same period.WP15 / Outline wording

The allowable production interval derived from available production time and customer demand, used to assess the required rhythm of a line.WP18 / Outline wording

Emissions from fuel or energy already in a ship's tank through its use on board, excluding upstream production.WP16 / Outline wording

A desired performance level with a stated basis, horizon, owner and review rule.WP02 / Outline wording

A controlled set of product specification information used for technical review, sampling and production communication.WP10 / Outline wording

Controlled production specification including patterns, dimensions, construction, materials, artwork and approvals.WP20 / Outline wording

Explicit causal explanation connecting an intervention to outputs and outcomes, with assumptions and attribution limits.WP13 / Outline wording

The AGOA provision allowing qualifying lesser-developed beneficiaries to use fabric of any origin for eligible apparel, subject to its conditions and caps.WP08 / Outline wording

The AGOA Special Rule allowing lesser-developed beneficiary African countries to import yarn and fabric from any global source while retaining duty-free U.S. apparel access (S11, S24).WP19 / Outline wording

Material or product processed per unit of time, with its stage and acceptance status specified.WP01 / Outline wording

The rate at which units or good units complete a defined process boundary over a stated period.WP02 / Outline wording

The rate at which the whole system produces good output over a stated period.WP15 / Outline wording

Elapsed time for a unit to cross the defined production boundary, including processing and waiting.WP15 / Outline wording

A large-scale annotated industrial textile dataset released through Alibaba Cloud Tianchi competitions, widely used to benchmark YOLO and R-CNN architectures across 20-plus defect types.WP03 / Outline wording

A foundational benchmark dataset developed at the University of Freiburg containing representative textile weave groups and defined defect classes under controlled illumination.WP03 / Outline wording

A sequence of observations associated with timestamps and, where required, quality and provenance metadata.WP18 / Outline wording

The degree to which data arrive and become usable within the period required by the decision.WP14 / Outline wording

A limited allowance for non-originating content that would otherwise cause a product to fail an origin rule, subject to product exclusions.WP08 / Outline wording

Processing material for its owner under agreed service, quality, loss and payment terms.WP01 / Outline wording

A freight activity unit equal to one tonne of goods transported for one kilometre.WP16 / Outline wording

Dissolved inorganic and organic material in water, relevant to salts, reuse and concentrate management.WP06 / Outline wording

An organisation-wide maintenance and loss-elimination programme involving equipment condition, operation and improvement.WP15 / Outline wording

Suspended material retained by the specified filtration method in a water or wastewater sample.WP06 / Outline wording

The ability to follow identified material or products through specified processes and custody events.WP05 / Outline wording

The simplification, modernisation and coordination of border procedures, information and controls to reduce trade friction while preserving compliance.WP08 / Outline wording

A cultural expression associated with community heritage and identity whose use requires attention to relevant rights and context.WP10 / Outline wording

Visual inline quality-control method displaying Green, Yellow or Red status cards at each sewing machine based on the defect count found in periodic roving sample audits.WP09 / Outline wording

Evidence concerning specified certified-material transactions, distinct from an organisation's general certification scope.WP05 / Outline wording

A shipment-specific document issued by a certification body confirming that a specific lot of material transferred between two Scope-Certified entities complies with GRS or RCS mass balance.WP11 / Outline wording

The interruption or changeover interval between power sources, to be qualified against the connected equipment.WP07 / Outline wording

Using knowledge learned from source products, markets or datasets to improve prediction in a different target setting.WP04 / Outline wording

A record linking inputs consumed by a process to its outputs.WP05 / Outline wording

Member State measures implementing a directive in national law, with timing and content requiring verification.WP17 / Outline wording

Movement of goods through an intermediate place, which becomes unlawful when used to disguise true origin or evade preference and customs rules.WP08 / Outline wording

The evaluation of how data, models and assumptions affect the reliability and range of a result.WP16 / Outline wording

Incremental economic loss from failing to supply a unit of demand in a specified inventory model.WP12 / Outline wording

An explicit indication that a required fact has not been established; it is not equivalent to zero or a negative finding.WP05 / Outline wording

Uninterruptible power supply; continuity behaviour must be checked for the declared load and failure envelope.WP07 / Outline wording

Emissions occurring before a reporting organisation or process, including raw-material and fuel production.WP16 / Outline wording

Arrival that has met the physical, specification, documentation and quality-release conditions required for consumption.WP12 / Outline wording

Specified eligible purpose to which financing funds or an equivalent amount are allocated.WP13 / Outline wording

The life cycle stage in which a product is used and maintained, including washing, drying and ironing for apparel.WP16 / Outline wording

A universally unique identifier with a defined format; useful identity depends on correct generation and handling.WP07 / Outline wording

A mapping between a surface and texture coordinates; it should not be confused with a physical print specification.WP10 / Outline wording

The degree to which a record conforms to its defined types, domains, formats and rules.WP14 / Outline wording

A machine-readable set of issuer claims that can be secured against tampering under a defined verification model.WP05 / Outline wording

Dedicated off-line training room equipped with industrial sewing machines where recruits and supervisor candidates build speed, quality and troubleshooting skills without disrupting live production.WP09 / Outline wording

A method that visualises a garment on a person or avatar; fit accuracy depends on the method and its inputs.WP10 / Outline wording

The documentary and enforcement arrangement required for AGOA textile and apparel benefits to prevent illegal transshipment and false documentation.WP08 / Outline wording

Checking eligible material flows, processing and balances within a specified boundary and period.WP05 / Outline wording

The voluntary sustainability reporting standard for SMEs recommended by the Commission, distinguished from subsequent voluntary standards.WP17 / Outline wording

Write-ahead log, a database journalling approach with implementation-specific consistency and durability properties.WP07 / Outline wording

Principal yarn systems of a woven fabric; their distinct properties must not be lost in simulation inputs.WP20 / Outline wording

Water used within a boundary that is not returned to the same water system in the same period or form under the selected accounting definition.WP06 / Outline wording

A supply-chain or life-cycle indicator of freshwater use or impact, whose precise meaning depends on the method and boundary applied.WP06 / Outline wording

The pressure on freshwater resources in a defined geography, commonly assessed through withdrawal relative to available resources after environmental-flow requirements.WP06 / Outline wording

Formation of fabric by interlacing warp and weft threads.WP01 / Outline wording

The complete fuel pathway from primary production through use on board a ship, combining well-to-tank and tank-to-wake.WP16 / Outline wording

Textile treatment such as washing, dyeing and finishing involving water, chemicals and often thermal energy.WP01 / Outline wording

The proportion of evaluated digital garments assembled without the stated errors under a specified benchmark protocol.WP10 / Outline wording

An origin category for goods obtained entirely in one participating territory without non-originating materials, as defined by the agreement.WP08 / Outline wording

A measure preventing further supply of a product in the distribution chain, distinct from recall from users.WP17 / Outline wording

Material, components, bundles or garments that have entered production but have not yet completed the defined process.WP18 / Outline wording

Units that have entered a defined production process but have not yet crossed its completion boundary.WP02 / Outline wording

Items that have entered but not completed the defined production process.WP12 / Outline wording

Started units or components within the production boundary that are not yet finished good output.WP15 / Outline wording

Funds tied up in operating assets such as stocks and receivables, less qualifying operating liabilities.WP01 / Outline wording

Operating investment in stock and receivables net of relevant operating payables, under an explicit definition.WP13 / Outline wording

A storage ordering mechanism used to preserve required ordering of writes and journal commits.WP07 / Outline wording

Currency code for the Central African CFA franc issued by the BEAC; separate from West African XOF.WP01 / Outline wording

Currency code for the Central African CFA franc issued by BEAC; distinct from XOF.WP13 / Outline wording

Central African CFA franc, the currency of the six CEMAC states, pegged to the euro at a fixed parity of 655.957 XAF per EUR (R32).WP19 / Outline wording

A visual comparison of work content by station against the governing cycle or rhythm.WP15 / Outline wording

An origin approach requiring specified yarn and subsequent production stages to originate in the participating territory, subject to the exact product rule.WP08 / Outline wording

Accepted output divided by stated input on a consistent physical and process boundary.WP12 / Outline wording

Accepted output divided by starts or another expressly stated input denominator; different yield definitions must remain separate.WP20 / Outline wording

The organisation behind the Roadmap to Zero programme, including guidance on chemical inputs, wastewater, sludge and related conformance systems.WP06 / Outline wording

A configured objective or system in which no liquid wastewater leaves the defined site boundary, requiring explicit treatment of salts, solids, energy and cost.WP06 / Outline wording

A forecast for a target dataset without fitting on that target's observations, usually after pretraining on other data.WP04 / Outline wording

Zero Liquid Discharge, an industrial wastewater engineering process that recovers and reuses virtually all factory effluent, leaving no liquid pollution discharge (S06, S15).WP19 / Outline wording

A grouping of industrial assets with common security requirements and a defined boundary, connected to other zones only through authorised conduits.WP18 / Outline wording