The evolution of multi drug resistant strain shigella sonnei from its ancestor E. Coli and predecessor S. Flexneri and its spread to Vietnam Introduction Shigella is a genus of Gram-negative, facultative anaerobic, nonspore-forming, nonmotile, rod-shaped bacteria. The genus is named after Kiyoshi Shiga, who first discovered it in 1897. The causative agent of human shigellosis, Shigella causes disease in primates, and is the only naturally found in humans and apes. Shigella is one of the leading
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purchasing outlays had increased in less than one year from 40% to 70% of the cost of goods sold, one European office-equipment manufacturer began to rely more heavily on American and Japanese suppliers, revise its materials planning system to reduce in-process inventories, and require its divisions to add people with electronics and foreign language skills to their purchasing staffs. o Through contracts that include long-term shipping charters and run to 1988 with suppliers in countries as distant as Brazil
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purchasing outlays had increased in less than one year from 40% to 70% of the cost of goods sold, one European office-equipment manufacturer began to rely more heavily on American and Japanese suppliers, revise its materials planning system to reduce in-process inventories, and require its divisions to add people with electronics and foreign language skills to their purchasing staffs. o Through contracts that include long-term shipping charters and run to 1988 with suppliers in countries as distant as Brazil
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The Goal was the first manufacturing management book I read in English. There is no theoretical framework in the book, so it is both interesting and easy to understand. This book was written by Eliyahu M. Goldratt and Jeff Cox, tells a fictional story about Alex Rogo, a manufacturing plant manager who struggled with situation that his plant faced with losses and shut, with the help of Jonah and through the efforts of the team, Rogo finally found out the way to save the plant and increase production
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market share has been on the decline due to the entrance of foreign-based auto manufacturers. They are also faced with over industry capacity and uses minimal technology in their process. In an effort to face competition, Ford is currently reviewing Dell’s Model of virtual integration to solve their supply chain bottlenecks. However, there were fundamental issues that needed to be addressed: (1) How would the virtual integration affect the operations of Ford in areas of ordering, quality control and
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We began our analysis by searching for bottlenecks that existed in the current system. It was easily identified that major issues existed in the ordering process. Without calculations, you could tell the reorder point was too low since the historical plots showed inventory levels at zero for two or more days at a time. The number of jobs in customer orders showed correlating spikes at the same time of the inventory outages. We reviewed the utilization and queues of the other stations in the system
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Case report: Paediatric Orthopaedic Clinic 1- What is capacity utilization at every step in the process? What is the direct resource utilization? Using the data provided in the case, we are able to compile all data necessary to compute the capacity utilization at the clinic. Activity | # of Staff | Available time | Activity time | Number of Patients | Time needed | Utilization10 | | | /Staff | Total | N | F | N | F | N | F | Total | | 1. Front Desk | | | | | | | | | | |
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first SWOT team suggested BMR implement a customer flow process, aimed at improving guest familiarization. This would be done by hiring additional staff in parking lots, retraining call center staff, having more information booths, and developing other multimedia methods. This proposal would do a good job at informing customers, addressing parking concerns, and managing capacity, all of which would increase efficiency of the customer flow process. A few weaknesses could surface in implementation and
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differs from the rest of the world, in the process followed for manufacture of gelatin: while most of the gelatin manufactured globally uses hides for the manufacture of gelatin, the Indian scenario makes use of crushed bones and ossein for producing gelatin. This is due to the virtual non availability of porcine hides for manufacturing gelatin in India. The porcine industry in India is a highly unorganized segment, making the hide collection process a hard proposition; and most of the bovine hides
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1-800-530-3992 Automated Frontend Optimization (FEO) With Blaze Why the frontend bottleneck is the most important performance issue today and what can be done to alleviate it. Introduction t used to be that the answer to most Website performance problems was either to add more hardware or reengineer the backend application code. For most sites, the backend is now the small part of the problem. Pages are generated by the backend quickly but downloading and rendering the frontend code and resources
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