...back, left wrist, right and left ankle, behind his left knee and foot were worked with several dots and lines, made by “rubbing powdered charcoal into vertical cuts”. These tattoos are thought to be made to reduce the pain, because their placement resembles acupuncture. Ötzi, the “Iceman”, 1991. Egypt was another place with a long large number of mummies found covered with tattoos – at first lines and dots, later images representing different gods. As much as Egyptians were expanding their empire, the art of tattooing spread as well to other civilizations like: Crete, Greece, Persia, Arabia, and finally around 2000 BC it spread to China. It is believed that Greeks were using tattoos for communication between spies, Romans marked criminals and slaves. Over the time Romans attitudes towards tattoos changed. While fighting with an army of Britain’s some of them admired the Britain’s soldiers body art and soon Roman soldiers started to wear their own body marks and art. The Ainu people of western Asia used tattoos to show their social status. Then they spread body painting to Japan where it took part in religious and...
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...TOYOTA PRODUCTION SYSTEM BASIC HANDBOOK TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction & History of the Toyota Production System ........................ 3 Goals of the Toyota Production System. ................................................. 4 TPS Model Overview............................................................................5-6 Respect for People .................................................................................. 7 Focus Areas of TPS ................................................................................ 8 Eliminating Waste..........................................................................9-10 Quality .........................................................................................11-12 Cost. ................................................................................................. 13 Productivity....................................................................................... 14 Safety & Morale ................................................................................ 15 Jidoka . .............................................................................................16-18 Standardization……………………………………………………………….19 Just in Time ........................................................................................... 20 Pull Production………………………………………………………………..21 Kanban……………………………………………………………………..22-23 Level Production.................................................................................... 24 Takt...
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...TOYOTA PRODUCTION SYSTEM BASIC HANDBOOK TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction & History of the Toyota Production System ........................ 3 Goals of the Toyota Production System. ................................................. 4 TPS Model Overview............................................................................5-6 Respect for People .................................................................................. 7 Focus Areas of TPS ................................................................................ 8 Eliminating Waste..........................................................................9-10 Quality .........................................................................................11-12 Cost. ................................................................................................. 13 Productivity....................................................................................... 14 Safety & Morale ................................................................................ 15 Jidoka . .............................................................................................16-18 Standardization……………………………………………………………….19 Just in Time ........................................................................................... 20 Pull Production………………………………………………………………..21 Kanban……………………………………………………………………..22-23 Level Production...............................................................................
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...8, 2013 Vending Machines Proposal Childhood obesity is a major problem throughout the United States. Kids all over the nation are overweight and it is due to many different reasons. One reason is the foods served in grade schools, mainly the vending machines, are unhealthy choices. Of course the health issue starts at home but kids are also in school 40 hours a week so the food served there is a big impact on their lives. Providing nothing fresh, organic or healthy in the vending machines is not a good thing even if healthy choices are provided in the cafeteria. “A recent study of over 2,300 kids ranging from 1st to 12th grade showed that 22% ate foods that were not part of the school lunch program” (Paul & Robinson, 2013). With physical education being taken out of the mandatory curriculums for students, serving healthy foods should be a top priority. Schools need to start placing fresher, healthier snack choices in the vending machines. Vending machines are usually filled with junk foods. Instead of going to eat in the cafeteria a child might just use a dollar and go buy a quick snack. Some might say to get rid of vending machines all together. On a survey site known as debate.org the question is asked, “Should schools have vending machines?” 71% of people responded yes for numerous of reasons. One being that it’s a great way to help schools raise money. “Schools can earn anywhere from 25-30% of commission off of vending machines ("Vending machines in," 2011). That money...
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...Design first started before the Industrial Revolution, but my report starts here. England was the center of this revolution, which was from the 1700's- 1850's. In the pre-industrial era, villages traded with other villages, and over time villages started to specialize in producing certain products to trade. As a result, a lot of gear was being designed. Many smart people were inventing machines, but when James Watts invented the steam engine, mechanized industry developed, and industrial machines, factories, and cities took off, along with pollution, poverty, sickness and industrial accidents. The designers of these machines were rich factory owners who were skilled in mechanical design, rather than artistic design. At this point in time a man called William Morris stepped in and started a design movement known as The Arts and Crafts Movement in 1860. Morris didn't like the way the Industrial Revolution shaped the world, because the machines were ugly and all of the products they were producing were too, so he looked to the past for inspiration. He wanted to get rid of mass production and revive the crafts and skills of an older, pre-industrial era. He pledged himself to decorative arts, and rejected the machine. Morris was an upper class artist and poet who was well educated and fairly wealthy. He started a company called Morris and Co. He designed cloths, carpets, chairs, book covers, stained glass windows, and wall paper, which were all hand- made, and hand-painted with...
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...Urban Modernity in NY (1908) and Ash Can artists General: The thrills of technology, such as coney island, city of wonders, also had the nitty gritty, more poverty and realistic side of the city with the ash can artists • Song Slide: nickelodeon o Diversity, adults children white black o Let the audience feel as a presence w/in performance o Act of watching was also entertainment • Coney Island at Night- film frame o Electricity changing what nighttime meant in urban setting • Before it was to be avoided and now it is not. Led to growth of nightlife • Footlight flirtation o Vaudeville established itself from burlesque/cheap entertainment • Create a form of entertainment that could be viewed by all, no vulgarity • Movies: five cents o Films mixed with live acts, broadened nighttime environment (attended by unescorted women, creating unsupervised encounters b/w men and women) • Started consumer culture- break down Victorian gender • Mixed audience represented experience of urban life (black/white, men/women) Exciting, instability, city new visual experience • Lone Tenement (George Bellows) o Wanted to facec the ugly in city as well as beautiful o Worked against Whistler (avoided aesheticism) • Rawness of city, depicted vaudeville (which is like mixture of acts such as burlesque, comedians, music, etc) o Liked to show economic conditions of urban poor • Ash Can painting style: thick and messy, meant to look like it was applied slap-dash...
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...the second largest employment provider after agriculture. The Indian Apparel & Textile Industry is one of the largest sources of foreign exchange flow into the country with the apparel exports accounting for almost 21% of the total exports of the country INTERNAL FACTORS STRENGTHS : Strengths describe the activities that an organization does well and that set it apart from competitors. It is an inherent capability of the company which it can use to gain strategic advantage over its competitors. Strengths of an export house are as follows: 1) The Latest and best machines: Manufacturing An innovative team under mature infrastructure is the pride of Shahi in fashion industry. They have 21 state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities spread across Delhi, Bangalore, Tirupur with whooping 15,000 machines installed. It is supported by the latest automatic spreaders & CAD/CAM cutting and the best of the micro-process controlled sewing machines with under-bed trimmers. The start-of-the-art sewing facilities with online checking at critical points coupled with stringent quality...
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...The Renaissance was the catalyst for the flourishing of economic, social, artistic, and individual freedoms and liberties. As the world progressed to our present day, these freedoms have both become very helpful and hurtful depending on one’s chosen point of view. Every pro has its con, just like how every coin has two different sides. For economic growth and freedom, machines were something that started from the Renaissance, but became perfected over the course of history. During modern America, machines have been very helpful since it helps us manufacture faster and more efficiently compared to the daunting tasks before. (http://royalfaires.com/arizona/images/pdf/Renaissance%20Discoveries%20&%20Inventions.pdf). Not only do we save time,...
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...an American artist who was an influential part of the Pop Art movement in the 1960s. Roy Lichtenstein was born in New York in 1923 and he has created some of the most well-known Pop Art paintings and artworks. An example of his artwork is “Reverie”, it is a screen print by Roy Lichtenstein in 1965 in his iconic comic strip art style. “Reverie” by Roy Lichtenstein shows social commentary of mass production through the art movement it’s in, the technique used, the subject matter. “Reverie” is an example of an artworks that is part of the Pop Art movement. Pop Art developed in the early 1960s as a response to abstract expressionism. It was originally a British movement in the mid 1950s but it became a movement that became a social commentary on the mass-production and unoriginality of the culture in America. Artists in the movement used images or production techniques of everyday consumer life in America. In Lichtenstein ‘s case, he mimicked the style of comics in a way in which it seems to be made by a machine and not by hand, such technique is presented in “Reverie”. Pop Art glorified the everyday, making everyday objects and subjects into high art. It used commercial art as subject matters in painting. Pop art called attention to consumer projects as it mimicked the increasing advertisements, but it also served to glorify them as idealized images of contemporary culture. Pop art, according to Lichtenstein, was art that looks out into the world, appears to accept its environment...
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...Office at Edobashi” enclosed here will bring to light the introduction of westernization into Japanese culture via traditional life. “Industrialization went hand-in-hand with political and cultural Westernization.” (Dower, 1) A fourth painting, “Illustration of Ladies Sewing,” depicts the use of a modern machine. Does Japan seem resilient to change or does it embrace it? Again, two of the paintings suggest heavily that Japanese culture remained similar up to a certain date. The other example is a painting that is opposite of what was previously portrayed. While Japanese Village Life progressed at a normal rate; regardless of western influence, Western culture influenced how Japan went from a traditional way of life to a more modern way of life. Although, Japan kept many of its cultural identity; despite the western influence. Leichleiter 2 | “Enoshima in the Sagami Province”By Katsushika Hokusai | In the painting, ‘Enoshima in the Sagami Province,’ artist Katsushika Hokusai observed a scene worth painting and interpreted it as such. He was able to produce his art in an incredible time known as the ‘Edo Period.’ (Wikipedia, 1) Popular rise and enjoyment of the arts were favorable in this time....
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...The History of New Holland Worldwide The history of New Holland dates back to October 1872 with the humble beginning of the New Holland Machine Works in a one person Farm-Equipment Repair Shop. No one paid much attention when a 26-year-old Machinist named Abraham Zimmerman opened a tiny repair shop at New Holland, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. The first machine build by Zimmerman was a small portable feed mill. Designated to be the no.1 mill it launched the New Holland Machine Works into the feed grinding business, from which, it has never departed. Abraham Zimmerman decided to expand his little company by incorporation and selling stocks to his friends and customers. In 1895, the New Holland Machine Works became the New Holland Machine Company, a name that would carry the firm to prominence in farm Equipment Company. During the next half century, New Holland introduced highly successful machines such as Balers, Rock Crushers, Limestone Pulverizers, Conveyors, Milling Machines, Engines, Coal, Furnaces and an early rotary Lawn Mower. In 1947, New Holland Machine Company came under the ownership of Sperry Corporation; additional plants were acquired in Mountville, Belleville, Pennsylvania and Lancaster. The New Holland Machine Company was now poised to become the industry leader in grassland farming in next decade and brought 100 new products into the line, including Fertilizers spreaders, Farm wagons, crop dryers and crop drying fans. In 1970 an exciting boldness characterized...
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...interaction than having a machine help then. On the hand younger customers are more excited about new technology, and being able to save the time and hassle. One of the major factors that distinguishes ATMs from bank tellers is the level of convenience each provides. To perform a transaction with a bank teller, a customer must go to one of that bank's branches and wait in line for an available teller. ATMs, on the other hand, are spread out over a much wider geographic area. In addition to locations in bank lobbies, many banks offer ATMs on sidewalks, in stores and at drive-through banking windows to speed up the process of complicated transactions. Many users value will value this new product more because of the variety of features and tasks it can do. As other ATMs only provide one function this will help the customer fulfill all there needs. The market size is considered large with the comparison to regular ATMs that are only capable of dispensing in increments of twenties. With customers seeking to receive different change this will target customers from other ATMs that are not capable. This will save customers the time and convenience when in need of change. With the competitive advantage this product will gain more banks interesting seeing that their rivals have a superior product, in which they are gaining more customers. For banks and financial institutions who want to give there customer the best experience the (product name) is a new state of the art ATM that provides...
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...and people with tattoos have developed a bad reputation. Many concerns such as the procedure, health risks and career complications are what have caused some of the negativity towards tattoos. In today’s society these are no longer the case and thus, the art has become mainstream. The act of tattooing started in early civilizations and was most evident in ancient Egypt. The Egyptians’ wall writing showed evidence of the body being used as a canvas around 2000 B.C. (“All About the”). Throughout many different cultures tattoos are used as a part of their religious practices. A tattoo can represent ones authority or a particular responsibility within the practice. However, during biblical times, tattoos were considered an act of mythological worship. Some experts believe that Moses viewed tattoos a little differently, viewing them as a way to commemorate devotion rather than paganism worship. Years later, during the Roman Empire, slaves and criminals began to bare tattoos causing them to develop a negative connotation. They were also used negatively to brand Jews during the Holocaust. Nowadays the process of tattooing is used for aesthetics, symbolism, and other reasons. The creation of tattoos and tattooing has also changed over many years. In the beginning, some tribal cultures would cut a design into the skin and then rub ashes or ink into the cut. Others would use a sharp object to tap ink into the skin (“All About the”). Today, the most common...
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...AI robot: how machine intelligence is evolving No computer can yet pass the 'Turing test' and be taken as human. But the hunt for artificial intelligence is moving in a different, exciting direction that involves creativity, language – and even jazz • Comments (109) • Marcus du Sautoy • The Observer, Saturday 31 March 2012 • Article history [pic] Marcus du Sautoy with one of Luc Steels's language-making robots. Photograph: Jodie Adams/BBC 'I propose to consider the question "Can machines think?"' Not my question but the opening of Alan Turing's seminal 1950 paper which is generally regarded as the catalyst for the modern quest to create artificial intelligence. His question was inspired by a book he had been given at the age of 10: Natural Wonders Every Child Should Know by Edwin Tenney Brewster. The book was packed with nuggets that fired the young Turing's imagination including the following provocative statement: "Of course the body is a machine. It is vastly complex, many times more complicated than any machine ever made with hands; but still after all a machine. It has been likened to a steam machine. But that was before we knew as much about the way it works as we know now. It really is a gas engine; like the engine of an automobile, a motor boat or a flying machine." If the body were a machine, Turing wondered: is it possible to artificially create such a contraption that could think like he did? This year is Turing's centenary so would he...
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...with about 40 workers on each shift. The supervisors for the three shifts (Art, Bob, and Carol) are experienced employees, and each has been with the company for more than 20 years. The supervisors appear satisfied with their work and have reported no major difficulty in supervising employees at Brako. Art supervises the first shift. Employees describe him as being a very hands-on type of leader. He gets very involved in the day-to-day operations of the facility. Workers joke that Art knows to the milligram the amount of raw materials the company has on hand at any given time. Art often can be found walking through the plant and reminding people of the correct procedures to follow in doing their work. Even those working on the production line, Art always has some directions and reminders. Workers on the first shift have few negative comments to make about Art’s leadership. However, they are negative about many other aspects of their work. Most of the work on this shift is very straightforward and repetitive; as a result, it is monotonous. The rules for working on the production line or in the packaging area are all clearly spelled out and require no independent decision making on the part of workers. Workers simply need to show up and go through the motions. On lunch breaks, workers often are heard complaining about how bored they are doing the same old thing over and over. Workers do not criticize Art, but they do not think he really understand their situation. Bob supervises...
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