Glossary P
Deutsch: Produkt / Español: Producto / Português: Produto / Français: Produit / Italiano: Prodotto
In this glossary products are mostly items made from raw or recycled materials; people buy and use these items everyday.
Deutsch: Produktdesign / Español: Diseño de productos / Português: Design de produtos / Français: Conception de produits / Italiano: Design di prodotto
Product design refers to the process of creating new products with a focus on functionality, aesthetics, and user experience. In the environmental context, it involves designing products that are sustainable, environmentally friendly, and resource-efficient throughout their entire lifecycle. This includes minimizing the use of non-renewable resources, reducing waste, and ensuring that products can be recycled or reused.
Deutsch: Produktion / Español: Producción / Português: Produção / Français: Production / Italiano: Produzione /
In the environmental context, "production" refers to the process of manufacturing or creating goods, resources, or energy. Production has significant environmental impacts, including resource depletion, pollution, and greenhouse gas emissions.
A Proficiency Test (PT) is a type of external assessment in which a stable sample, the composition of which is unknown to the analyst, is provided to determine whether the analyst/laboratory can produce analytical results within the specified acceptance criteria. Also known as a Performance Evaluation Test.
A Proficiency Test Sample is a test specimen that mimics an actual specimen in all possible aspects, except that its composition is unknown to the laboratory at the time of analysis, which is used to assess the laboratory"s capability to produce results within acceptable criteria.
Deutsch: Nachkommen / Español: Progenie / Português: Prole / Français: Progéniture / Italiano: Progenie
Progeny in the environment context refers to the offspring or descendants of organisms, particularly plants and animals, and their impact on ecosystems. Understanding progeny is crucial in ecological studies, conservation efforts, and environmental management, as it helps predict and manage the population dynamics and genetic diversity of species.
The Project Life Cycle is the sequence of major events in a process, such as systematic planning, development of appropriate documentation (QA Project Plans and Standard Operating Procedures), execution of the planned events (sampling, analysis, and data review), assessments of work conducted, and development of the final product (publication) and action to be taken based on the project results.