...Management A research of Lean Production Delivery Systems on methods, processes and tools Zhiyuan Wang Author Note This report answers topic three This report was prepared for 49002 Project Management, taught by Elizabeth Bourke Abstract Current project management practices been found that have inherent difficulties in meeting increasingly stringent clients’ needs. However, it seems that the theories and principles of Lean Production Delivery Systems (LPDS) are the best approaches of all sorts of management theories. This assignment makes a brief Investigates and discusses of LPDS and analyses how to apply the principles, theories, processes and tools to current project management practices. This assignment concentrates on topic three and compares the difference between current and LPDS approaches in methods, processes and tools. Lean Project Management A research of Lean Production Delivery Systems on methods, processes and tools Background Before people name it Lean Production Delivery Systems1 (LPDS), many American experts call it TPS which is short for Toyota Production System (Womack et al., 1990). This production system been called as just-in-time production at the beginning state. It was created and developed by the founder of Toyota, in order to gain higher quality and lower cost, in the 1950 s. This production system became famous and been paid more attention by experts when Toyota made much profit during 1970s economic crisis while other automobile manufacturers...
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...The first thematic unit was informing because it gave an overview of the history of the LPD position, the tasks that an LPD might have to carry out, and the dynamics/issues within language and literature departments. I enjoyed reading Lord’s (2014) chapters because they are detailed and concrete. The challenge in defining the LPD position on page 5 was more less what I expected since LPDs’ duties will vary according to different institutions. I especially found interesting Kaplan’s (1997) LPD job description, where the duties are divided in six main primary categories, with specific tasks for each category (p. 7). The “fiscal operation of the unit” is a surprising duty since I did not think that an LPD had to develop a budget and be in charge of purchases. These seems demanding tasks, and I think it would be ideal to get some sort of experience in budget management before having to do so on the job. In this case trial and error would not work well....
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...Executive Summary This report analyses the current project management methodologies and the lean system and also explains the importance of the lean delivery system with the advantages and disadvantages comparing to the current methods used in the project management practice. Projects are completed by project management methodologies and lean management system. Generally Project management methodologies are the various ways in which projects are initiated, planned, and executed unto completion. For different type of industrial projects and for different types of projects, there are certain specific management methodologies that are currently in use such as the traditional methods or the critical chain method that are to be used. The Lean Project Delivery System has emerged from the theoretical and practical Investigations, the process of on-going development, reducing the forms of waste in the process to get the desired product with high customer satisfaction. Introduction Project: A project is a unique endeavour to produce the desired product within the specified time given, set of constraints-cost and quality. Project management: Project Management: Project management can be defined as the process which is disciplined to involves the skills, tools management and the required management techniques to complete a project successfully There are some current management methods for project management; one of the main methods is traditional project management method which...
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...Summary More than ever before, the project management becomes a matter of concern. Through applying the various types of managerial methods, processes and tools, the project can results in different profits. Due to the intense competition of market, an emerging system has been created, called the Lean Production Delivery System. In the report, it investigates, analyzes and discusses the methods, processes and tools in current project management approaches and LPDS. Through the comparison of them, the report concludes that the traditional project management is steady and reliable, still the main stream for the current environment. Furthermore, the LPDS is modern and excellent, but it is open to question. Introduction In recent decades, project management plays an essential role in various areas, from the architecture, national defense, and aerospace to the computer, telecommunications, financial industry and even government agencies. Project management developed after the Second World War as one of the new management technologies, organized in the United States. It is defined as that the project managers use the systematic views, methods and theories to effectively manage and operate all the works involved the project, under the condition of limited resource. In other words, project management is planning, organizing, conducting, coordinating, controlling and evaluating from the start of invested...
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...Project Management Summary This report explains theories and assumptions of current project management methods, and compares it to the Lean Production Delivery System (LPDS) by showing advantages and disadvantages of each method. This report also includes how the LPDS is more efficient than other methods by eliminating wastes and save cost and duration. Introduction: Client needs nowadays are getting more stylish due to the continuous new challenges in the environment, economy, technology and society for the necessity of creating or upgrading new projects. Meeting these requirements involves changing old methods in managing projects into new ones which are more essential to meet the needs of the market. Moreover, new concepts have been considered in addition for the time, cost and quality to guaranty the success of a project. Many new concepts could be presented for production management, but the Lean Production Delivery System (LPDS) is one of the most successful practices concerning the development of project management. For this matter, this report will include an investigation and discussion comparing the advantages and disadvantages of current project management methods and Lean Production Delivery Systems (LPDS). Current project management methods, Advantages and Disadvantages: As described in the text, ―Project Management is the application of knowledge, skills, tools and technique...
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...Systems (LPDS) can be applied to current project management practices. This is an individual assignment for both Standard and Distance Mode students. Overview There are several global trends, particularly rapid rates of change in technological, social, environmental and economic areas, that expose the inherent difficulties in meeting increasingly stringent clients’ needs. Project-based initiatives have been increasingly used as a very good way to deal with rapid rates of change, with a large effort to disseminate project management as a standard way to deliver increasingly sophisticated products. However, the strong emphasis on time, cost and quality may not necessarily ensure that rapid and constantly changing needs can be adequately and comprehensively addressed. Of all the approaches to production management, the theory and principles drawn from Lean Production Delivery Systems (LPDS) seem to be best suited for enhancing project management practices. You will investigate and discuss how the application of lean approaches, such as lean construction, lean manufacturing and lean thinking, to the management of projects and production address these concerns and enhance the value that is delivered to clients while reducing several forms of waste. Topics Your investigation and discussion will concentrate on one of the eight topics below: 1. Comparatively assess the advantages and disadvantages of current project management methods and lean production delivery systems (LPDS). 3...
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...This report explains theories and assumptions of current project management methods, and compares it to the Lean Production Delivery System (LPDS) by showing advantages and disadvantages of each method. This report also includes how the LPDS is more efficient than other methods by eliminating wastes and save cost and duration. Introduction: Client needs nowadays are getting more stylish due to the continuous new challenges in the environment, economy, technology and society for the necessity of creating or upgrading new projects. Meeting these requirements involves changing old methods in managing projects into new ones which are more essential to meet the needs of the market. Moreover, new concepts have been considered in addition for the time, cost and quality to guaranty the success of a project. Many new concepts could be presented for production management, but the Lean Production Delivery System (LPDS) is one of the most successful practices concerning the development of project management. For this matter, this report will include an investigation and discussion comparing the advantages and disadvantages of current project management methods and Lean Production Delivery Systems (LPDS). Current project management methods, Advantages and Disadvantages: As described in the text, ―Project Management is the application of knowledge, skills...
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...It is aimed at providing a common printing interface across a local network, masking differences among the printing systems on each computer. I am not sure that such a system is needed in a pure Linux environment, where the standard Berkely LPD provides this functionality, but CUPS does provide interactivity with SMB and Windows printers. CUPS also allows dynamic printer detection and grouping. CUPS can be seen as a replacement for the LPD printing system. It replaces the lpr command with its own and the LPD printer drivers with its own versions. However, CUPS is similar to LPD in that it uses PostScript as its underlying language for page descriptions. Linux (and UNIX) programs don't know the difference between CUPS and...
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...To increase the sales of AMUL from 2.5 LPD to 4 LPD, what can be done more and what more can be innovated? * AMUL can venture out on new products like dairy based products , baby food, health drinks, milk shake's of different flavours etc. * In urban markets AMUL 's hoardings were huge success but it has potential to penetrate in rural markets even more successfully by advertising and by campaigning. * AMUL can also look at global markets because now a days in world population in 6 people one is INDIAN and their always becomes emotional when they looks at an INDIAN product so they can use their emotional factor and can launch their low fat variant's and traditional variant's there. * More increase in no. of AMUL branded retail chains to capture the customer attention. * Primarily they targeted child as influencer and launched variant's for them now they can look at to females those are having calcium problem can launch a product for them. Because in INDIA women's are facing problems like austioporosis, austio- arthrarities etc which are causes due to lack of calcium after crossing 40's . So they can target them launch a product for them and they can take it as their campaign strategy and do campaigning in both rural and urban areas. * They can advertise their product's through facebook . * they can co-sponsor a football team and cricket team in INDIA so they can reach to player's and attract and target them and launch product for player's because...
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...pre-labeled images called atlases or templates are used in the process of segmentation of image data. Both single atlas and multiple atlases can be used. However, using multiple templates proves a dominant method in segmenting brain structures even for challenging structure variations and overlapping structures. In this paper, we propose two multi atlas segmentation methods: Local Patch Distance Segmentation (LPDS) and Weighted Local Patch Distance Segmentation (WLPDS). These methods use local patch distance in the label fusion step. LPDS use local patch distance to find best patch match for label propagation. WLPDS use local patch distance to calculate local weights. The brain MRI images from MICCAI 2012 segmentation challenge are chosen for experimental purpose. These datasets are publicly available and are downloaded from MIDAS. The proposed techniques are compared with existing fusion methods such as majority voting and weighted majority voting using the similarity measures such as Dice overlap, Jaccard co-efficient and Kappa statistics. For 20 test data sets, LPDS gives DC= 0.954711±0.05, JC=0.913329 ± 0.04 and KAPPA= 0.945296 ± 0.07. WLPDS gives DICE = 0.985422 ± 0.02, JACCARD = 0.923123 ± 0.03 and KAPPA = 0.95438 ± 0.04. Segmenting brain tissues/ structures is the key step in diagnosis and treatment of various brain related disorders. The MRI scan gives clear and exhaustive images of soft tissue. Bones can’t be visualized using MRI because bone tissue doesn’t...
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...* Describe the purpose and history of Common UNIX Printing System (CUPS). * CUPS is print server that allows print jobs to be sent to printers in a uniform fashion. It contains many print drivers and can print many different formats. It is also cross platform so can be run under different operating systems. Being so connected CUPS supports HTTP, SMB, LPD/LPR, and IPP. * Michael Sweet at his company Easy Software Products developed CUPS in 1997. When first designed it used the LPD protocol then switched over to IPP because of the limitations. * Explain how to configure CUPS. * Make sure the following packages are installed. (If not yum install) * cups, system-config-printer, cups-pdf * Run chkconfig to start daemon when computer starts * # chkconfig cups on * Start CUPS * # service cups start * Using system-config-printer * Press Add printer * Enter description, location, device URI: * Use Make and Model to find the printer you are connecting * Print Test Page to confirm its working * Describe the purpose and history of OpenSSH. * OpenSSH or OpenBSD Secure Shell is encryption communication software set that uses two levels of authentication. * OpenSSH was created by OpenBSD as an alternative to the proprietary SSH. Making is debut in 1999 it has adapted adding PKCS11 authentication support to OSO layer 2/3 VPN. * Explain how to configure OpenSSH...
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...“lost” per km of water distribution network per day. NRW rate was recorded at a national average of 36.93, 36.63, 36.37 and 36.6 percent of the total water produced in 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2013repectively. Regarding this, the estimated financial loss due to non-revenue water is more than 1/3 of revenue collected by water services industry annually. This is another problem that needs careful management. POINTING THE MISTAKES In my understanding of the below figure, there are many mistakes including: 1-The below figure shows that the population of Malaysia in 2006 was 6,470,000 and it seems that to be a mistake, there is also another mistake in the water usage of 226lpd in 2006 and 144 lpd showed the figure as a domestic consumption, and the estimated average domestic use showed that it is 230 lpd and the percentage of the estimated average domestic use 100% may be a mistake (as in the figure). 2-The point of water withdrawal for domestic use in 2002, it makes comparison among the South East Asian countries, so why Selangor is entered in that comparison as it is a state only and also the note that says “Non-domestic consumption has surged and is forecast to go higher” appears to be mistake. 3-In the position of the figure that is written on “The average Malaysian uses 211 liters per capita per day based on 2014 statistics, this comes to 25.32 cubic meters per day” may be a mistake. And also “The World Health Organization recommends water usage of 165 liters per capita per day, or...
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...1. ORGANISATION STUDY AT MILMA, KOLLAM DAIRY1EXECUTIVE SUMMARYAn efficient organisation is essential for the success of a business enterprise. The defining ofduties and fixing responsibilities of all employees in the organisation is essential. Aneffective organisation system ensures proper supervision and control. Organisation is themechanism which determines the relationship of various persons. With the help of a welldefined management is able to perform the functions of direction, co-ordination and control.An ill-defined organisation plan will not enable the management to make an effectiveexhibition of its managerial talents to realise business goals. An organisational study wasconducted in Milma, Kollam Dairy to know the real functioning of an organisation.In this study primary and secondary data were the main sources of information. Here theprimary data are collected through an interview method with the managers of the concerneddepartment. Then interactions with the plant workers were done in order to collect dataregarding the processing of the plant. Secondary data are collected from websites, newspaper,and magazines.The main objectives of the study are, The study is conducted to familiarise with the functioning of the organisation. To know the functions of all departments. To know the interrelation of all departments with each other and the Dairy Manager.The main findings are, There is good coordination between the Dairy Manager and the departmental heads. Fine interrelationship...
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...THE ONE PAGE LINUX MANUAL A summary of useful Linux commands Version 3.0 May 1999 rm name squadron@powerup.com.au Remove a file or directory called name Kill off an entire directory and all it’s includes files and subdirectories Copy the file called filename to the /home/dirname directory Move the file called filename to the /home/dirname directory Display the file called filetoview Display man pages containing keyword Display the file called filetoview one page at a time, proceed to next page using the spacebar Display the first 10 lines of the file called filetoview Display the first 20 lines of the file called filetoview Display the last 10 lines of the file called filetoview Display the last 20 lines of the file called filetoview Starting & Stopping rm -rf name shutdown -h now halt shutdown -r 5 shutdown -r now reboot startx Shutdown the system now and do not reboot Stop all processes - same as above Shutdown the system in 5 minutes and reboot Shutdown the system now and reboot Stop all processes and then reboot - same as above Start the X system cp filename /home/dirname mv filename /home/dirname cat filetoview man -k keyword more filetoview Accessing & mounting file systems mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom mount -t msdos /dev/hdd /mnt/ddrive mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/cdrive umount /mnt/cdrom Mount the device cdrom and call it cdrom under the /mnt directory Mount hard disk “d” as a msdos file system and call it ddrive under the /mnt directory Mount...
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...2 University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA E-mail: gballard@leanconstruction.org Projects are temporary production systems. When those systems are structured to deliver the product while maximizing value and minimizing waste, they are said to be ‘lean’ projects. Lean project management differs from traditional project management not only in the goals it pursues, but also in the structure of its phases, the relationship between phases and the participants in each phase. This paper presents a model of lean project management and contrasts lean and traditional approaches. Four tools or interventions are presented as illustrations of lean concepts in action. Keywords: construction management, Lean Project Delivery System (LPDS), lean project management, project management, value, waste Les projets sont des systemes de production temporaires. Lorsque ces systemes sont organise pour fournir le produit tout ` ` ´s en optimisant la valeur et en minimisant les gaspillages, on dit qu’il s’agit de projets au plus juste . La gestion de ce type de projet differe de celle des projets classiques non seulement au niveau des objectifs vise mais aussi a celui de la ` ´s ` structure des phases, des relations entre les phases et des participants a chaque phase. Cet article propose un modele de ` ` gestion de projet au plus juste et oppose les deux approches. Quatre outils ou interventions sont pre ´sente pour illustrer ´s l’application des concepts au plus juste . Mots cles...
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