...parts, which are Essence, Analysis, Conclution, and Expansion. I upload three files, one of them is the instructions that show how to write the individual report, this can help you to write the conclution and the Essence, and the other one is related to the group activity, this can help you to write the analysis and the expansion.the third one is the group activity that has all the informations that can help you to write the individual. Takoda Bingham Salem Alajmi Porter Lewis Particle equilibrium Objective: To examine the condition for static equilibrium of a particle. Theory: If the net force on a body is zero then it will not accelerate. If it’s at rest it has static equilibrium. If an unbalanced force acts on a body it will be accelerated. When unbalanced the particle can achieve its equilibrium by having a force that is applied that has an equal magnitude and is in the opposite direction. Procedure: 1. Attach 100 g (1.0 N) at 0 degrees and 100 g (1.0 N) at 270 degrees on the force table. Zero force probe and pull the third string until the ring is center and read angle and force. Repeat 2 more times. 2. Move the 270 degree weight to 240 degrees and measure the angle and force. Repeat 2 more times. Then add 1 N to the mass holder at 240 degrees and repeat the measurements. 3. Leave on weight holder at 0 degrees, pick a second angle between 270 and 360 degrees using 2 weights of your choosing. Repeat the measurement Data: Newtons per string Angle Force (N) 1 each 0, 135, 270 1...
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...IE 466: Concurrent Engineering T. W. Simpson 32.3 Taguchi’ Robust Design Method s Since 1960, Taguchi methods have been used for improving the quality of Japanese products with great success. During the 1980’ many companies finally realized that the old s, methods for ensuring quality were not competitive with the Japanese methods. The old methods for quality assurance relied heavily upon inspecting products as they rolled off the production line and rejecting those products that did not fall within a certain acceptance range. However, Taguchi was quick to point out that no amount of inspection can improve a product; quality must be designed into a product from the start. It is only recently that companies in the United States and Europe began adopting Taguchi’ robust design approaches in an effort to improve product s quality and design robustness. What is robust design? Robust design is an “engineering methodology for improving productivity during research and development so that high-quality products can be produced quickly and at low cost” (Phadke, 1989). The idea behind robust design is to improve the quality of a product by minimizing the effects of variation without eliminating the causes (since they are too difficult or too expensive to conrol). His method is an off-line quality control method that is instituted at both the product and process design stage to improve product manufacturability and reliability by making products insensitive to environmental conditions...
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...State Standards (SC.C.2.3) The student understands that the types of force that act on an object and the effect of that force can be described, measured and predicted. (SC.H.3.3) The student understands that science, technology, and society are interwoven and interdependent. Materials 3 wood blocks 25cm in length force scale (spring scale) screw eyes triple balance beam metric ruler tape Procedure Step 1. Attach a screw eye to the end of block 1. Mass the block with the screw eye and record its weight in Table 1. Recall that weight is a force and the weight will be the normal force. w = F = FN = mg g=9.8m/s2 Step 2. Lay block 1 flat on your table, attach the force scale and gentle pull...
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...Situation New Balance is an athletic footwear and apparel company that has revenues of $1.64 billion per year. It has long had a cadre of loyal customers; the company was made famous for its commitment to runners and innovations like separate widths offered for most of its shoe models. Its main competitors include Nike—which pulls in around $19 billion per year in revenues—and Adidas, which draws about $12 billion per year. In recent years, New Balance has branched out with more models and acquired casual and boot brands, but it still has trouble suing for space at department stores, even when it offers to guarantee stores the products will sell. 2. Problem Identification New Balance’s most loyal customers tend to be middle aged and older individuals who buy shoes for functionality, not fashion, and as their feet don’t grow this demographic will often keep the same pair of shoes for years. Indeed, New Balance’s advertising slogan from the 1980s stated that “We don’t live by fashion. Then again, we don’t die by it either”. While they have since altered their approach in recent years to spur growth, the core of this philosophy remains essentially intact: New Balance values functionality over fashion. But while this certainly hasn’t killed the company, it has contributed partially to its stagnant position in the market with respect to more larger and more fashion-oriented competitors like Nike and Adidas. Unfortunately, many youths prize fashion over functionality. At a department store...
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...However, it is important to conduct a more thorough and accurate analysis in order to have a better comprehension of the possible issues, opportunities and challenges that may occur upon entering the market. 3.3.1 The economic environment Since the 2008 global financial crisis, the South African economy has demonstrated uneven growth, with an average increase of above 2%. This is largely due to the effect of the global economy in addition to the country’s strong ties to advanced economies (Statistics South Africa n.a.). According to Schwab et al. (2013), South Africa was ranked as the 53rd most competitive country worldwide, overtaking Brazil to take second place among BRICS-countries. Regardless of some soft macro- economic indicators such as an extremely high unemployment rate (25.4%) and rising inflation (5.9%) (Trading Economics 2014), direct foreign investments (FDI) continue to flow into the county. As shown in Figure 1, South Africa is ranked as the 13thmost attractive FDI destination globally, coming ahead of Switzerland, Spain and Italy. This positive rating is a result of numerous successful large merger and acquisition (M&A) deals. Figure 1. FDI Confidence Index 2014. Ranking and Scores For instance, the British oil giant BP has announced its decision to invest $550 million in its refinery, terminal and service station retail network in South Africa. It is also partnering with Pick n Pay1 to open 120 'Pick n Pay Express' stores across the country (A.T. Kearney 2014)....
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...period of oscillation depended on the effective mass of the spring and the period of oscillation. Students recorded basic information such as the position of the mass before the spring is charged, the path of the mass, the peak of the oscillation, as well as the force the mass and the spring exert on each other. Data studio and a force sensor, and a position sensor was used to get accurate measurements of these values. Goal The purpose of this laboratory is to characterize the oscillation of a simple spring-mass system. Theory If a spring is stretched or compressed a small distance from its equilibrium position, the spring will exert a force on the body given by Hooke's Law, where is known as the spring force. The constant, , known as the spring constant, and is the displacement from the equilibrium position. The spring constant is a clue of the spring's strength. A large value for indicates that the spring is strong or stiff. A low value for means the spring is weak or flexible. Springs with large values can balance larger forces than springs with low values. The negative sign in indicates that the direction of is always opposite the direction of the displacement. The spring force is a restoring force. In other words, the spring force always acts to return the weight or body to the equilibrium position regardless of the direction of the...
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...Situation New Balance is an athletic footwear and apparel company that has revenues of $1.64 billion per year. It has long had a cadre of loyal customers; the company was made famous for its commitment to runners and innovations like separate widths offered for most of its shoe models. Its main competitors include Nike—which pulls in around $19 billion per year in revenues—and Adidas, which draws about $12 billion per year. In recent years, New Balance has branched out with more models and acquired casual and boot brands, but it still has trouble suing for space at department stores, even when it offers to guarantee stores the products will sell. 2. Problem Identification New Balance’s most loyal customers tend to be middle aged and older individuals who buy shoes for functionality, not fashion, and as their feet don’t grow this demographic will often keep the same pair of shoes for years. Indeed, New Balance’s advertising slogan from the 1980s stated that “We don’t live by fashion. Then again, we don’t die by it either”. While they have since altered their approach in recent years to spur growth, the core of this philosophy remains essentially intact: New Balance values functionality over fashion. But while this certainly hasn’t killed the company, it has contributed partially to its stagnant position in the market with respect to more larger and more fashion-oriented competitors like Nike and Adidas. Unfortunately, many youths prize fashion over functionality. At a department store...
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...Journal of Vacation Marketing http://jvm.sagepub.com/ Benefit segmentation of potential wellbeing tourists Juho Pesonen, Tommi Laukkanen and Raija Komppula Journal of Vacation Marketing 2011 17: 303 DOI: 10.1177/1356766711423322 The online version of this article can be found at: http://jvm.sagepub.com/content/17/4/303 Published by: http://www.sagepublications.com Additional services and information for Journal of Vacation Marketing can be found at: Email Alerts: http://jvm.sagepub.com/cgi/alerts Subscriptions: http://jvm.sagepub.com/subscriptions Reprints: http://www.sagepub.com/journalsReprints.nav Permissions: http://www.sagepub.com/journalsPermissions.nav Citations: http://jvm.sagepub.com/content/17/4/303.refs.html >> Version of Record - Oct 14, 2011 What is This? Downloaded from jvm.sagepub.com at EMIRATES AHM on February 25, 2012 Article Journal of Vacation Marketing 17(4) 303–314 ª The Author(s) 2011 Reprints and permission: sagepub.co.uk/journalsPermissions.nav DOI: 10.1177/1356766711423322 jvm.sagepub.com Benefit segmentation of potential wellbeing tourists Juho Pesonen, Tommi Laukkanen and Raija Komppula University of Eastern Finland, Finland Abstract The purpose of this study is to segment tourists according to the benefits they seek from a tourism destination. These segments are examined in order to find attractive segments for local wellbeing products. Segmentation in the context of wellbeing and wellness provides companies information...
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... a suburb of Metro Detroit, the automaker was founded by Henry Ford and incorporated in 1903. One of Ford facility in Canada is St. Thomas Assembly plant in Ontario. Opened in 1968 it produces the Crown Victoria Police Interceptor, Grand Marquis and Lincoln Town Car. In early May 1998, the company was concerned that 5 tug operators, each costing $100,000 annually over three shifts, was too many. A management consultancy company; Colin Cruji was hired to study and analyze the utilization of the tug operators and see if Ford could eliminate the number of tug operators per shift which were five operators for each shift at the time, keeping in mind that the current level of garbage collection should not be affected. In this report, an analysis will be conducted to determine the percentage of capacity utilization for each tug operator, the actual time they work , and whether or not its recommended to eliminate the number of tug operators while keeping the same standard service. Observations: After two weeks, Colin was still observing the tug operation at Fords St. Thomas assembly plant (STAP), Colin at that time had toured the plant and became familiar with its layout and operations, and had observed the tug operators at work, but he was not yet sure how to proceed, he decided to collect some data. Colin began his data collection to determine how many gondolas there were in the plant, and their locations. After he had located all the gondolas he calculated the time it...
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...Peter Drucker wrote that any business enterprise has only two basic functions: marketing and innovation.1 All else, he implied, was detail. The central role of marketing in the enterprise stems from the fact that marketing is the process via which a firm creates value for its chosen customers. Value is created by meeting customer needs. Thus, a firm needs to define itself not by the product it sells, but by the customer benefit provided. N Having created the value for its customers, the firm is then entitled to capture a portion of it through pricing. To remain a viable concern, the firm must sustain this process of creating and capturing value over time. Within this framework, the plan by which value is created on a sustained basis is the firm’s Marketing Strategy. Marketing Strategy involves two major activities: (i) selecting a target market and determining the desired positioning of product in target customers’ minds and (ii) specifying the plan for the marketing activities to achieve the desired positioning. Figure A presents a schematic describing a general process of marketing strategy development. As shown, five major areas of analysis underlie marketing decision making. We begin with analysis of the 5 C’s— customers, company, competitors, collaborators, and context. We ask: O What needs do we seek to satisfy? Company Skills What special competence do we possess to meet those needs? Competition Who competes with us in meeting those needs...
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...Using gretl for Principles of Econometrics, 4th Edition Version 1.0411 Lee C. Adkins Professor of Economics Oklahoma State University April 7, 2014 1 Visit http://www.LearnEconometrics.com/gretl.html for the latest version of this book. Also, check the errata (page 459) for changes since the last update. License Using gretl for Principles of Econometrics, 4th edition. Copyright c 2011 Lee C. Adkins. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation (see Appendix F for details). i Preface The previous edition of this manual was about using the software package called gretl to do various econometric tasks required in a typical two course undergraduate or masters level econometrics sequence. This version tries to do the same, but several enhancements have been made that will interest those teaching more advanced courses. I have come to appreciate the power and usefulness of gretl’s powerful scripting language, now called hansl. Hansl is powerful enough to do some serious computing, but simple enough for novices to learn. In this version of the book, you will find more information about writing functions and using loops to obtain basic results. The programs have been generalized in many instances so that they could be adapted for other uses if desired. As I learn more about hansl specifically...
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...A company should be concerned to satisfy its customers’ requirements for fast and dependable services at reasonable price, as well as helping its own suppliers to improve services they offer. There are five basic performance objectives and they apply to all types of operation: • Quality • Speed • Dependability • Flexibility • Cost (Slack, N. et al, 2001). These operations performance objectives are analysed here in accordance to TMC. 1) Doing things right by providing error free goods and services, which will satisfy the customers, is known as ‘quality’. According to the case study, Toyota’s vehicles consistently rank near the top in third-party customer-satisfaction surveys. Being voted by many market research and surveys as the car of the year for several years it shows that, Toyota has a successful record worldwide. Because of the good quality Toyota’s success kept going, where in 1995, Toyota was the best car in the Middle East. Also, TMC has produce a good quality cars that are quit and do not emit unpleasant fumes, such as more than 40 emission-control systems and dozens of technologies that have improved passenger-car safety (Ahmed, A., 2003, Coursework). 2) An other performance objective is speed, which means by doing things fast, to minimise the time between the order and the availability of the product or service that gives the customer e speed advantage. The TMC’s techniques are focussed operations that reduce complexity by using simple and...
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...LG IN THE INDIAN COLOUR TELEVISION MARKET INTRODUCTION Ever since its inception in India 'LG India' has made an impressive beginning and has shown commendable progress on all parameters of keeping in touch with the market. This report aims to establish the factors included in the marketing plan of LG in India (in the colour television market) that has contributed to its rise to glory. This report begins by giving the origin and background of the company. Then the company and its environment have been studied. This includes the discussion of the PEST factors and Industry Analysis (Porter's Five Forces) followed by a SWOT Analysis. The next part involves the CSFS and competitive advantages followed by a discussion of the company's strategies. The last part then includes alternative strategic app and conclusion. BACKGROUND AND ASSUMPTIONS Origin The Lucky Group (now known as LG) has its origins dating late back to January 5, 1957 when founder Chairman Hwoi Koo had invested all his personal assets in its formation with great success isn many rounds of reinvestment by the late 1950s, Mr. Koo announced his intention to get into electronics after much painstaking research and planning the Goldstar Company (now known as LG Electronics) was founded on 1.10.1958. LG Electronics India Limited After being appointed one of the official sponsors of CTV kits for the Asian Games in New Delhi - 1982, LG disappeared for the next 12 years. Then in 1995 it came together...
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...Mapping a Process Understanding y g your p processes Why map your process? The flowcharts in procedures and quality manual show how the process should be. Process mapping is the detailed be mapping of the real process. Process maps: • Bring clarity to complex processes • Highlight non-value adding activities • Start the process of thinking about improvements Versions of a map Any Process Has At Least Three Versions What You THINK It Is What It ACTUALLY Is Hidden work What it SHOULD Be What the procedure says What the operator does What the future state can be Map what it really is not what you think it is! p y y What actually happens – Spaghetti Diagram Part no 3102336 V.D.F. 4295-01 4295-02 4295-03 MARKING WASH SPAG GHETTI DIAGRAM Area: RAW MAT'L • • DEBURRING BENCH • • 3 2 • FINAL INSP. • • • 2 • GRINDER 3220 2 PAINTING J&S 3148 FADAL 5139 • • BLAST • • H.T. INSP. HEAT TREAT LATHE 4400 • • 2 • DISTANCE OF PARTS INTERNAL EXTERNAL TOTAL 116 490 606 METRES F.P. STORES • •• VERT SHAPER 12008 Team: • . S.T.I. M.P.I . What actually happens – Spaghetti Diagram Goods Inwards Warehouse 1. Prod’n m/c Material store Material store Material cart 2. Prod’n m/c Material cart Q QS Material distance = 1,230 M QC distance = 400 M Production Area Lead time = 5 days SIPOC Diagram Suppliers Inputs Process Outputs Customers •External...
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...QUESTION 1 Using the specific operations performance objectives explain why do you thing TMC is a world-class company? A company should be concerned to satisfy its customers’ requirements for fast and dependable services at reasonable price, as well as helping its own suppliers to improve services they offer. There are five basic performance objectives and they apply to all types of operation: • Quality • Speed • Dependability • Flexibility • Cost (Slack, N. et al, 2001). These operations performance objectives are analysed here in accordance to TMC. 1) Doing things right by providing error free goods and services, which will satisfy the customers, is known as ‘quality’. According to the case study, Toyota’s vehicles consistently rank near the top in third-party customer-satisfaction surveys. Being voted by many market research and surveys as the car of the year for several years it shows that, Toyota has a successful record worldwide. Because of the good quality Toyota’s success kept going, where in 1995, Toyota was the best car in the Middle East. Also, TMC has produce a good quality cars that are quit and do not emit unpleasant fumes, such as more than 40 emission-control systems and dozens of technologies that have improved passenger-car safety (Ahmed, A., 2003, Coursework). 2) An other performance objective is speed, which means by doing things fast, to minimise the time between the order and the availability of the product...
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