...Cradle-to-Cradle Design at Herman Miller: Moving Toward Environmental Sustainability MGT 551 Operations Analysis October 21, 2013 Cradle-to-Cradle Design at Herman Miller: Moving Toward Environmental Sustainability Many organizations today claim they are environmentally friendly, their businesses are sustainable, or they work at minimizing their carbon footprint. While stating the claims may be easy, they take commitment of time and resources, a culture or homogeneity of vision, and a great deal of planning to implement. The complicated part is that the change cannot occur in just one facet of the organization, the change must carry across the organization and the entire supply chain. Drew Schramm finds himself in a difficult position at the Herman Miller organization. His supply chain background is in conflict with the organization’s environmental sustainability position. While he may see easy money to be picked from the savings tree, it has now become forbidden fruit. The Herman Miller organization is committed to their stance of environmental sustainability and Schramm must now take that into serious consideration when making supply chain decisions. Their new chair design, the Mirra Chair, has yet to have a decision made on the construction and materials of its arm pads. They can either use the common polyvinyl chloride (PVC) that violates their cradle to cradle (C2C) protocol standards, thermoplastic urethane (TPU) which meets the C2C standards but is more expensive...
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...affect you or the business in which you are working? It wouldn’t affect me directly but any future grandchildren I have and it would make me feel more secure in knowing there were better safety measures in place to ensure less fatalities and injuries 2. Describe the proposal/change. The proposal request several changes be put into place in the manufacturing of bassinets and/or cradles to make them safer. There are several proposals be request as list below: Updated warnings; Stability requirements; Performance requirements for fabric-sided products to address entrapment incidents; Performance requirements to limit the rocking/swinging angle to 20 degrees and the rest angle of certain rocking/swinging cradles to 5 degrees; Show citation box requirement to eliminate active restraints; Changes to scope and terminology; Performance requirements specifying a mattress flatness angle of 5 degrees to address suffocation incidents on segmented mattresses 3. Write the public comment that you would submit to this proposal I believe that there should be better safety standards in place for bassinets and cradles to reduce fatalities and injuries of these products. I also feel there should be mandated standards established in making these products and if the standards are not complied with strict...
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...Developing Good Business Sense Jenny Richardson BUS/210 March 16, 2014 Karen M. Wilson Developing Good Business Sense In this week’s assignment, I looked at three different businesses but three of the same field. McDonalds, Sonic Drive-in, and Kentucky Fried Chicken were the three restaurants I chose to investigate for this assignment. These restaurants run on the same basis of fast and friendly service. All three are highly successful franchise businesses and very well recognized in the fast food industry. McDonald’s primary products are hamburgers and french fries, but over the years they have branched out to many different types of sandwiches to keep customers interested and coming back for more. They offer an array of breakfast items as well. Sonic Drive-in restaurant takes us back to the carhop days of the past and brings a bit of a nostalgic feel to dining in your car. They have a large menu based on items once served at the drive-in restaurants and encourage their customers to customize their orders. They advertise over 350,000 drink combinations available. Kentucky Fried Chicken was established years ago by a man known as Colonel Sanders who had a way with making fried chicken and was famous for it to say the least. Over the years the company has added many different items to the menu but has never changed the “original recipe” which made the company famous and what it is today. All three of these restaurants run...
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...Background and Benefits Sonic boasts one of the lowest turnover ratios in quick-service restaurant franchises. Customers can park under a shady canopy and order food through the curbside speakers. A friendly Carhop delivers orders out to the car where patrons can eat it or take it home. The concept cuts down on busy drive through lines and presents a unique eating experience to customers. A standard store layout with 24 to 36 stalls requires approximately ¾ of an acre for build out. Sonic Food is made-to-order with unique menu items not offered at other Quick Service Restaurant's. Sonic maintains strong sales growth, with remarkable customer frequency statistics and continued high returns for stockholders. The franchise fee is $45,000 with a total investment for a traditional SONIC ranging from $1.1MM to $3.3MM. SONIC is Small Business Administration (SBA) approved. The term of a traditional SONIC franchise is 20 years, plus a 10 year renewal. Non-traditional franchises start with a 10-year term, a 5-year renewal, and a $22,500 franchise fee. The total initial investment ranges from $434,000 to $545,000, excluding land costs. Other non-traditional locations start with a manageable investment of $107,000 to $221,000. In addition, you must have prior or current successful restaurant experience and/or strong entrepreneurial skills. Sonic offers a 12-week training program that includes eight weeks of restaurant training, three weeks at new store openings and one week of classroom...
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...Ever thought about what makes some companies successful WHEREAS other companies continue to fail? In order to continue to grow and remain profitable, some companies will take a step back and assess what they are doing so that they can improve and gain future business, customers, and employees alike. Some organizations will review their current operation practices, while others will venture to improve their information systems. In a competitive market, successful organizations need to review their Operational effectiveness strategy to gain the upper hand. The owners of Club IT, Ruben Keys and Lisa Tejada, have followed their dream and opened a nightclub in the downtown region of their city. As they have continued to develop, they have developed their mission statement to state “We, Ruben and Lisa, offer you live music, DJ’s, dance space and refreshments that suit your lifestyle. You are our friend, and we seek to build a community that meets regularly at Club IT.” Based upon their mission statement, they are not marketing a specific group or population of customers, but a broad range of people who enjoy music within their city. Pinnington (2010) explains that when organizations select the wrong clientele in difficult economic situations, the results can be magnified. Club IT will need to better define their mission statement to better target the clientele that they wish to attract. Currently, Club IT has information resources for both the general consumer, but also...
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...Case Study The information in the Case Study is used each week when writing the individual sections of the Marketing Communications Plan. One of your neighbors has just inherited a restaurant in a small town about 75 miles away. They’ve never owned or operated a business before, and know very little about marketing or the restaurant business. They now have a Marketing Plan, but need help with the Marketing Communications Plan. General Restaurant Information Provided by Your Neighbors: 1. They want to keep the “family’s” restaurant as a legacy to their family members who left it to them. However, they will need to make money immediately in order to replace the income they lost when they quit their jobs to run the restaurant. 2. The restaurant has been losing sales/profits over the past few years. Family members have had some health issues (and have since passed away) and have not had the time to manage the restaurant effectively. For the past few months, the Chef and some of the servers have been keeping the restaurant open. 3. The restaurant has a good reputation in the small community. The town has a population of 6,000 people. It is in a good location (right off an interstate) and does additional sales catering to local businesses in the area. Over-the-road semi-drivers say it is the best cup of coffee in town and town’s people know that you can always find the local sheriff and highway patrol officers eating there. People are allowed to smoke at their...
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...De Montfort University Design of a rotor blade for axial flow turbomachine ENGD3036 Plant Analysis and Sustainability Student number: P15235891 Student name: Haotian, Wu 10th of January, 2016 Lecturer: Professor Udai Singh Contents Abstract 1.0 Introduction ........................................................................................1 2.0 The plot of the blade ..........................................................................2 2.1 Data ..............................................................................................2 2.2procedure .......................................................................................3 3.0 The leading edge and trailing edge .....................................................5 4.0 Calculation of stagger angle at mid-height .........................................7 5.0 Discussion about calculation errors in design ....................................9 6.0 Realistic representation of the stage ..................................................12 7.0 Discussion about generation and effects of ‘shock’ ..........................14 7.1 The generation of the ‘shock’ ......................................................14 7.2 The effect of the ‘shock’ ..............................................................15 8.0 Stress pattern with a tangential load ..................................................16 8.1 3-D model creating ..........................................................
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...How Geography Effected Ancient Cultures Mesopotamia and Egypt in the ancient world were in modern day Iraq, and Egypt is still there today. Culture in theses societies, was loosely based on their natural surroundings. While geography in ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt differed in stability and protection, they were similar in farming opportunities, with comparable sources of water giving them both the chance to excel in agriculture. The river flooding in Mesopotamia and Egypt differed in predictability; while rivers in Mesopotamia were sporadic in flood patterns, the Nile in Egypt was very predictable in its flooding. This caused the two civilizations to have opposing ideas of the power of their gods. In ancient Mesopotamia, the Tigris and Euphrates rivers were incredibly unpredictable, and when they flooded they caused frenzies in surrounding areas. This unpredictability was reflected in their religion, as they felt the flooding of the rivers was a punishment for something they did. In thinking they could never please the gods, the people of Mesopotamia believed one only had the underworld to look forward to after death. They viewed nature as something out to get them. This belief led to more selfishness in people, and as a result, people were generally less trusting. However, in Egypt, the Nile River and its yearly predictable flooding led to the creation of calendars to plan agriculture around flooding; therefore, the flooding would help, not hurt them. The predictability...
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...Test #1 – Global 1 Why do we study the Middle East and North Africa together? (think about what they have in common) • You should be able to identify the Middle East and North Africa on a world map, and recognize several countries in these regions Types of maps – political and physical • Political maps show boundaries of states and countries, major roads, capitals • Physical maps show physical features of the land like mountains, plains, volcanoes Types of geography (geography = the study of the earth) – physical and human • Human geography studies where people are in the world, what the people are like who live in certain areas, how people impact geography (for example, population density) • Physical geography studies landforms and physical features of the earth Paleolithic Age – 2.5 million BCE to 8000 BCE • Humans were nomadic (were constantly moving) • Evolved (slowly changed and advanced) by learning to walk upright, making stone tools, etc. Neolithic Revolution (Agricultural Revolution) – occurred in 8000 BCE • During this revolution, humans stopped being nomadic and settled down into communities and villages (which would later develop into civilizations thousands of years later) • Humans being FARMING (agriculture) – this allowed people to have much more food than they previously had, which made life easier o At the same time, there was a separation between the work that men and women did ...
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...In Vonnegut’s novel Cat’s Cradle, the constant thing that is being said is the religion Bokonon. It is established from the beginning that it is all based on lies, but the whole city of San Lorenzo worship it and follow what it says, even though it is forbidden and you will get the “hook” if you do. “Nothing in this book is true.” These were the first words given in the prologue. Immediately after this, the main character says, “Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John.” Jonah began to collect things for a book he was going to write called The Day the World Ended. It was going to be about what Americans did on that very exact day the first atomic bomb was deployed on Hiroshima, Japan. This book will never be completed. This book was meant to be a Christian book, but Jonah is now a Bokononist. If someone would’ve told him about the “bittersweet lies” the book told, he would’ve became a Bokononist from the very beginning. Bokononists believe that civilization is shaped into groups that do God’s work without ever knowing what they’re doing. A karass is what they call themselves. “All the true things I am about to tell you are shameless lies.” The warning in this is any person who can not comprehend how a useful religion can be based on lies then you will not understand the point to this book. So be it. Jonah’s karass includes the three children of Dr. Felix Hoenikker. Who is known as the “father” of the first atomic bomb. Jonah wrote a letter to...
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... All of the Civilizations have helped in such a great way, just in a couple of years. They made a big change in our society that till this day we still talk about what they have done to make our world a better and brighter place. Also, they have dissimilar things and similar that still made a great impact to us. The common similarities that Egypt, Sumer and Indus had was their written records. They would record events that were meaningful such as wars and religious texts. They discovered a system called cuneiform. The system had an amount of wedges and symbols, that was useful to them. Not only that but they also developed a written language called Harappan. It was difficult for them to translate this ancient language to other people that didn't know about it. Therefore, all 3 of the civilizations used written language. Additionally, another similarity that the 3 civilizations had was their belief system. Egypt, Sumer and Indus cultures were more likely found upon polytheism. What that means is that they belief in many gods. The Egyptian culture belief in over 2,000 gods, all of these gods had their own temple. While the Sumerians believed that each city or state had their specific god. Also, a group of people believed that the Indus culture practiced “theocracy”. Till this day they have over 33 million gods that they believe in. They also say that polytheism was found around the early time of 2500’s BCE. Lastly, this similarity has had a huge impact on...
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...Heavy rains drench the eastern coast, wind whips around freezing snow with hurricane-level forces. No one had thought it possible to have a hurricane in the middle of winter, but here it is; bombogenesis. Bombing out, weather bomb, cyclone explosion, all are synonyms for the same thing. Although they are ominous-sounding terms, their definition isn't as menacing as it may seem. The confusion is mostly due to the fact that the average person rarely hears it, except from weather forecasts. When pressures drop lower than 24 millibars in 24 hours, as explained by Theweatherprediction.com, an area is subjected to a bombogenesis. Usually formed when cold, polar air meets warmer ocean air, a bombogenesis is simply weather slang for a winter storm. According to the Oceansurvice.gov, the storms mostly occur in the mid-latitude region. In general, they are most prevalent during October and March, when the temperature change is most noticeable, but they can happen anytime. As a result of the changing pressure, the normal weather is thrown out of whack, causing many intense effects. Due to the pressure and temperature changes, storms strengthen and form without warning. The clashing of warm and cold air leads to strong, wavelike wind patterns that swirl in short fragments, shown in the Theweatherprediction.com. Bombogenesis usually leads way to nor'easters, tropical storms in the east, and in intense cases, hurricanes. Wicked blizzards and catastrophic rain and flooding wreak havoc in the...
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...The history of the world is the history of humanity, beginning with the Paleolithic Era. Distinct from the history of the Earth (which includes early geologic history and prehuman biological eras), world history comprises the study of archaeological and written records, from ancient times on. Ancient recorded history begins with the invention of writing.[2][3] However, the roots of civilization reach back to the period before the invention of writing. Prehistory begins in the Paleolithic Era, or "Early Stone Age," which is followed by the Neolithic Era, or New Stone Age, and the Agricultural Revolution (between 8000 and 5000 BCE) in the Fertile Crescent. The Agricultural Revolution marked a change in human history, as humans began the systematic husbandry of plants and animals.[4][5][6] Agriculture advanced, and most humans transitioned from a nomadic to a settled lifestyle as farmers in permanent settlements. Nomadism continued in some locations, especially in isolated regions with few domesticable plant species;[7] but the relative security and increased productivity provided by farming allowed human communities to expand into increasingly larger units, fostered by advances in transportation. As farming developed, grain agriculture became more sophisticated and prompted a division of labor to store food between growing seasons. Labor divisions then led to the rise of a leisured upper class and the development of cities. The growing complexity of human societies necessitated...
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...Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia Egypt and Mesopotamia, two of the earliest civilizations, both established around river valleys. Although these civilizations were located in close proximity to each other, their differing geographical features such as rivers and environmental factors led to the development of two very different societies. Rivers in the Ancient Egyptian and Mesopotamian societies played enormous roles in the growth of their civilizations. Egypt, located on both sides of the calm and predictable Nile River, agriculturally prospered from annual flooding that left behind rich, fertile soil known as silt. Flood waters would rise in July, slowly saturating the lands of the Nile River valley and recede in October leaving behind silt for farmers to cultivate and grow numerous crops. In contrast, Mesopotamia was located between the capricious and violent Tigris and Euphrates rivers in the valley known as the Fertile Crescent. While Mesopotamians relied on flooding for the fertile, silt rich soil as well, the unpredictability of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers caused unimaginable damages, some of which resulted in the destruction of entire villages. Environmental factors played a role in the creation of these civilizations, especially in their views of their gods. While Egypt experienced hot, dry, mild weather, Mesopotamia was subjected to, more destructive weather that included severe rainstorms, drought, hail, flooding...
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...like, in exposing, denouncing, or deriding vice, folly, etc"(dictionary.com). Satire is a tool; used to point out and make fun of the faults in our society by using humor or mockery. Satire widely portrayed within forms of literature, music, television and movies. Rather popular and known examples of satire include: infomercials, PSA's, Saturday Night Live’s “Weekend Update, The Daily Show, music videos produced by Weird Al Yankovich, and specifically, the novel Cat's Cradle written by author Kurt Vonnegut. Vonnegut clearly portrays a profound novel drenched in satire by including the satirical techniques of exaggeration, reversal, parody and incongruity. Exaggeration is a...
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