...implemented in the process industries of Japan. Although these principles are now applied to the U.S. manufacturing industry, and as a result, the steel industry, they have been largely ignored in the non-ferrous and precious metals industries. This paper presents the concepts and practical approaches to implement a total quality management program. Contrary to the beliefs of many managers, such a program increase yields, recoveries and output while it decreases unit costs. In fact, quality management incorporating statistical process control will be an essential ingredient for metallurgical plants to effectively compete in the future. Unfortunately, the influence of quality management concepts has not been felt in most American companies in the base metals and precious metals industries. A large majority of senior management personnel in these industries is unfamiliar with essential quality management concepts such as statistical process control (SPC). Based on the thrashing American manufactured products have taken in world markets, one must expect that products from the chemical and metals process industries will be next unless the change to "Total Quality Management" is made soon. INTRODUCTION As noted by Deming (1982), in 1950 Japan’s net worth was negative, it had no significant natural resources and had a reputation for producing cheap, shoddy consumer goods. Their management, however, was open to new ideas and they accepted that quality was the only way to turn their...
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...and has been very successful. The company follows a low cost leadership strategy and thus is able to deliver a low cost happy meal. The company provides good quality fast food at very low prices that competitors find it very difficult to match. The company is able to deliver its products at low prices because firstly they have vertical integration for few of its raw materials plus they buy other ingredients in bulk which lets them take the advantage of economies of scale , secondly they employee people with just basic educational qualification as mostly everything is machine operated the art of cooking is not needed. Thus the employees cost is also low. McDonalds also has its own institute called the Hamburger institute where it trains employees. Since the employees are trained especially for the company operations they become more efficient and the advantage of learning curve also comes into the picture. The company also follows an ethnocentric mentality where it sources all its raw material from...
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...CODMAN & SHURTLEFF : Planning and control system Introduction Define the situation. JJ and CD .. The teams, etc 1. The Johnson & Johnson planning and control system efficiency Definition : Management & Control System Management control system can be defined as a critical function in organizations. (K. A Merchant & Wim A. Van Der Stede, 2007). In other words, it can also be described as the process by which an organization secures to achieve its performance. Major roles of control systems - Motivate organisation members to act consistently with organizational objectives - Integrate the different parts of an organisation - Proper interchange/flow of information within the organization - Enable strategic plans implementation (L.D. Benyayer, 2014) Evaluate the planning and control system use at Johnson & Johnson Strengths - Decentralized Management o Decentralization, split by business unit – easier to control and have a better view of each unit o All subsidiaries report directly to executive committee members. o Subsidiaries are managed by locals, which enables the organization to gain proper knowledge of the local market, cultural affinity, norms and values. o Each director has to analyze their own business unit strategy and is in charge of monitoring. Allows them to get a grasp of the bigger picture instead of solely working through their day-to-day activity. - Long term approach...
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...Total Quality Pioneers University of Phoenix Daisy Keys September 5, 2011 Instructor: Professor Raul Enciso Japan’s net worth was negative in 1950, and natural resources were not significant. Also Japan’s consumer goods were cheap, and badly made. However, Japanese management was receptive to new ideas and realized quality was the way to improve their economy. Today Japan manufactures top quality products and is the envy of the world. However, their management approach of resources is unique from the American traditional approach. This paper will attempt to define quality and its elements as well as describe how quality pioneers’ use of the total quality elements made the pioneer successful. Also attempts to explain why the elements of quality are useful in today’s environment and discuss what is foreseen about the future of quality. According to Goetsch (2010) quality is a standard or level of something as measured against another thing of a similar kind, the degree of excellence of something, for instance, the quality of life. Also quality is an interpretation of superiority or the non-inferiority of something. Customers and consumers value quality in everything in life whether expected or perceived. However, the elements of quality are useful in the environment today because without quality many products may fail. Looking at what consumers or customers need or expect to fulfill their wants or needs, quality is necessary. Good quality is necessary to achieve...
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...METALLURGICAL PLANTS by Mr. Stephen R. Brown President Performance Associates International, Inc. ABSTRACT The principles of quality management are well developed and, from a practical standpoint, thoroughly implemented in the process industries of Japan. Although these principles are now applied to the U.S. manufacturing industry, and as a result, the steel industry, they have been largely ignored in the nonferrous and precious metals industries. This paper presents the concepts and practical approaches to implement a total quality management program. Contrary to the beliefs of many managers, such a program increase yields, recoveries and output while it decreases unit costs. In fact, quality management incorporating statistical process control will be an essential ingredient for metallurgical plants to effectively compete in the future. INTRODUCTION As noted by Deming (1982), in 1950 Japan’s net worth was negative, it had no significant natural resources and had a reputation for producing cheap, shoddy consumer goods. Their management, however, was open to new ideas and they accepted that quality was the only way to turn their economy around. Forty years later Japan’s manufactured products are the envy of the world and are of the highest quality. Their approach to management of resources is completely different from the traditional American approach. Total quality management, having been established in the manufacturing industries, has continued to grow and is now pervasive...
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...Membership Type (Category table) 11 Payment (Transaction table) 11 Rental Record (Intersection table) 12 Schedule (Transaction table) 12 Information Technology Controls for XYZ Recreation center 14 ADD A TiTLE, Such s overview of Controls 14 Control Details 14 Control classification zone 15 Type 16 Implementation 17 Metrics 17 Compensating Control 18 Change log 19 PRJ 1 19 PRJ 2 20 Exclusive summary Going to stadium is an enduring activities among Americans, especially among those college students. Those people are keen to exercise their body day by day. It brings our company, XYZ Stadium, large amount of clients and incomes. What’s more, other organizations are willing to rent our space to hold their activities such as sport event. However, these good news challenge us in management process especially in check-in process which we did not think it over carefully before. To mitigate these problem, our company pushes and implement a sequence of system associated with the check-in process to control and prevent existing and potential risks. Our check-in system is mainly constituted by a main process and two sub-processes. The main process is a general and simple process which our clients will face directly. It’s an almost automatic process operating and recording by computer system after staffs input...
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...[pic] Executive Summary Pharmaceutical industry is one of the largest industries in our country. Every year a huge amount foreign currency comes from this sector. Square Pharmaceuticals Ltd., the flagship company, is holding the strong leadership position in the pharmaceutical industry of Bangladesh since 1985 and is now on its way to becoming a high performance global player. It was established in 1958 and converted into a public limited company in 1991. The sales turnover of SPL was more than Taka 5 Billion (US$ 90 million) with about 15% market share (April 2003 – March 2004) having a growth rate of about 16%. Besides fulfilling domestic demand it exports a huge amount of drugs in abroad. It is now exporting medicine in 20 countries. It has achieved the trust of the domestic and foreign people. SQUARE’s Mission is to produce and provide quality &innovative healthcare relief for people, maintain stringently ethical standard in business operation also ensuring benefit to the shareholders, stakeholders and the society at large. As a very large and formal company Square uses different management practices in their corporate world. It does the works of planning, organizing, leading and controlling. Square Pharmaceuticals Ltd. follows a systemic way to take a particular decision. Based on the present & previous available data and information the decision is made, focusing & predicting the future consequences. The Planning mechanism of Square involves...
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...Prototyping Excavator Control Systems Mark D. Elton, Aaron R. Enes, and Wayne J. Book, Fellow, IEEE Abstract— A multimodal operator interface station is developed to display a realistic virtual reality depiction of a compact excavator performing general digging tasks. The interface station includes engine audio feedback and a near life-size operator display attached to a full-size cab. The excavator dynamics are determined by models of the hydraulic system, the linkage system, and the soil digging forces. To maximize the fidelity of the hydraulic model, certain “virtual” components of the model are replaced with real-time hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) simulations of the actual hardware. HIL simulation is done in a geographically isolated facility, with Internet based communication between HIL and the Remote Operator Interface. This is the first reported high-fidelity operator interface to be combined with remote hydraulic HIL simulations. I. I NTRODUCTION Hydraulic hardware has undergone a great evolution in recent years, evolving from purely hydro-mechanical devices to electro-hydraulic systems controlled by microprocessors. The use of electronic controllers opens the door to improving dynamic performance and enhancing traditional hydraulic off-highway construction machines with new features such as increased energy efficiency, improved operator controllability, and overall increases in productivity. With these added capabilities often comes added system complexity, particularly...
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...perform activities of daily living by oneself. However, power wheelchairs are not an option for many people who, due to severe motor disabilities, are unable to use conventional controls. For some of these people, noninvasive brain– computer interfaces (BCIs) offer a promising solution to this interaction problem. Brain-Actuated Wheelchairs Millions of people around the world suffer from mobility impairments, with hundreds of thousands of them relying on power wheelchairs for activities of daily living [1]. However, many patients are not prescribed power wheelchairs either because they are physically unable to control the chair using a conventional interface or because they are deemed incapable of safely operating them [2]. Consequently, it has been estimated that between 1.4 and 2.1 million wheelchair users might benefit from a smart-powered wheelchair if it were able to provide a degree of additional assistance to the driver [3]. Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MRA.2012.2229936 Date of publication: 8 March 2013 In our research with brain-actuated wheelchairs, we target a population that is or will become unable to use conventional interfaces due to severe motor disabilities. Noninvasive BCIs offer a promising new interaction modality that does not rely on a fully functional peripheral nervous system to mechanically interact with the world and instead uses brain activity directly. However, mastering the use of a BCI, i.e., with all new skills, does not come without a few...
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...00 Effective Organizational Control'. A Framework, Applications, and Implications ERIC FLAMHOLTZ, Professor of Management, University of California at Los Angeles This article by Eric Flamholtz provides a framework for understanding the nature, role, functioning, design, and effects of organizational control systems. It represents a model of control which can be used to make this process more visible in organizations. It illustrates the practical applications of the model, and suggests its implications for corporate and human resource management as well as for scholars. Copyright © 1996 Elsevier Science Ltd Introduction All organizations (businesses, universities, governments, hospitals) are concerned with channeling human efforts toward attainment of organizational objectives. Regardless of their formal purposes, organizations are composed of people with their own personal interests. Even if these individuals and groups wish to help attain organizational goals, the organization of which they are ,~=r~ must integrate their efforts and direct them toward goals. Thus, organizations must influence or the behavior of people, if they are to fulfil their nd achieve their goals. To help gain control over the behavior of people in formal organizations, most enterprises use a combination of techniques including budgets, rules, standard operating procedures, job descriptions, budgets, accounting measurements, and performance appraisal systems. Taken together, these techniques...
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...have to be quantified and do not have to be financial - Strategies define how organizations should use their resources to meet these objectives – a well-conceived strategy guides employees in successfully pursuing their organizations’ objectives; it conveys to employees what they are supposed to be doing - Strategic control involves managers addressing the question: Is our strategy valid/is our strategy still valid, and if not, how should it be changed? - Management control focuses on execution and it involves addressing the general question: Are our employees likely to behave appropriately? Do our Employees understand what we expect of them? Will they work consistently hard and try to do what is expected of them (will they pursue the organization’s objectives in line with the strategy)? Are they capable of doing a good job? - Managers addressing strategic control issues have a focus primarily external to the organization; they examine the industry and their organization’s place in it - Managers addressing management control issues have a primarily internal focus; they reflect how they can influence employees’ behaviors in desired ways Causes of Management Control Problems 1. Lack of Direction – some employees perform inadequately simply because they do not know what the organization wants from them; therefore, one function involves informing employees as to how they can direct their contributions to the fulfillment of organizational objectives 2. Motivational Problems – even...
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...T.E. /129 /S- 2013 UNIVERSITY OF PUNE Phone : 020-25601218 Fax : 020-25601206 Email : coe@unipune.ac.in Web : http://www.unipune.ac.in EXAMINATION SECTION Ganeshkhind, Pune - 411 007 (Maharashtra) INDIA T.E. (All Branches) November, 2013. Examination Circular No.129 of 2013 Programme of T. E. [ All Branches ( Semester I & II ) 2003 and 2008 Course] Examinations, November, 2013 INSTRUCTIONS FOR CANDIDATES 1. Candidates are required to be present at the Respective College of the examination, fifteen minutes before the time of the first paper and ten minutes before the time of each subsequent paper.(As Per Circular No. 128/2013 Dated: 10.10.2013) Candidates are forbidden from taking any material into the examination hall that can be used for malpractice at the time of examination. No request for any special concession such as a change in time or any day fixed for the University Examination on religious or any other ground shall be granted. Candidates are requested to see the Notice -Board at their place of examination regularly for changes if any, that may be notified later in the programme. Candidates are requested to note the Day, Date and Time of every paper on every day. Candidates are permitted to use stencils at the time of examination. Candidates appearing for the examinations are expected to provide themselves with side - rules. The exchange or loan of side-rules, drawing instruments of other materials used in the examination hall is Not Permitted while the examinations...
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...Letter of Transmittal Sep. 1, 08 Ms. ............... Lecturer Department of BBA Stamford University Bangladesh Madam, We are very glad to inform you that we are going to submit the study report titled "Management Practices in Business Organizations" based on the management practices in Taj King Industries (Pvt.) Ltd a reputed melamine wares manufacturer & exporter In this study report, we have tried to include all the factors we thought essential for previously mentioned title. We have analyzed the factors based on managerial theories & managerial key functions with the proposed options & the events though few things might be omitted due to our limited knowledge & access of information. We are always prepared to provide any kind of information or documents to you on your demand. We will be very grateful if our limited effort is able to draw your kind attention. We expect that you will be kind enough to help us by detecting faults containing in this study report. Your valuable advice will encourage us further. Thanking you Arifur Rahman Md. Al-Amin Tamal Rahan Turzo Rizwana Chowdhury Md. Saidul Mursalin Saber-Al-Mamun Prelude: The name of Taj is entwined with the glory of-the Taj's product. A man gifted with an inherent entrepreneurial sense, Mr. Ataur Rahman started a trading house in 1973, which continued to expand in scope and nature as time went along. In 2000, Taj went into production of melamine-ware. The success was immediate as there...
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...Topic 4.Controlling Topic 1: What is Control and Why Engage in It? Introduction Many people think of the word “control” in the context of manipulating someone or something. They think of control as getting someone to do something that WE want them to do, and it follows that they may NOT want to do it! In management, control has a different meaning. It is simply an information system that provides valuable feedback. In your textbook, control is defined as “the process of monitoring activities to ensure that they are being accomplished as planned and correcting any significant deviations” (Robbins et al., page 308). In other words, you measure the results you are getting and compare this with your objectives and then make any necessary adjustments. Managers who control the finances of an organization are often referred to as “controllers.” These managers use financial control measures on a daily basis. Project managers also use control mechanisms to monitor their projects. Control measures are determined at the beginning of a project and used throughout the life of a project to monitor time, budget, and project scope. The control measures give the project team valuable feedback on how they are doing. Just as feedback is a critical component in good communication, feedback is also a key factor in developing management controls. Measurement controls can be set up in virtually any area of an organization. One area that most people have experience with is the annual performance...
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...Adaptive Traffic Control System Performance measure against which our proposed policy to be tested is green time utilization. This performance measure is estimated by measuring the green time during which vehicles are served for an instance of a given phase and then dividing by the total length of the green time instance (i.e. minimum and maximum green time) The supporting data for green time utilization are as follows: * Allocated minimum and maximum green time * vehicle departure times * Saturation headway These data can be retrieved from the Signal control data and stop line detector. Our objective is to maintain ideal state as long as possible if control system deviates from this ideal state to (over-utilization) or (under-utilization) then by using adaptive control strategy system will take actions by changing existing policy. Objective: max.8≤Ugfk<1 Subject to constraints: g minfk≤gfk≤g maxfk (1) f=AFgfk≤C (2) Here, Ugf= Average time taken by vehiclesAvailable time Ugf=number of departures in phase f× hsat{gmin, gmax} Ugminf= number of departures in phase f× hsat{gmin}, Ugmaxf= number of departures in phase f× hsat{gmax} So, theoretically the green time utilization should follow following condition to be remain in ideal...
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