Lecture 5 SIX SIGMA 1 COMPANIES USING Six Sigma is in use in virtually all industries around the world. Some of companies can be listed as: • Motorola • Ericsson • General Electric • Sony • Ford Motor Co. • CITI bank 2 WHAT IS SIGMA ? • A term (Greek) used in statistics to represent standard deviation from mean value, an indicator of the degree of variation in a set of a process. • Sigma measures how far a given process deviates from perfection. Higher sigma capability, better performance
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holidays. It is a never ending battle to have the best of everything. Chapter three is about the winter and spring months. Winter has the shortest days and coldest days of the year. Christmas and Hanukkah are celebrated during this time. The Christmas tree is the symbol of Christmas that everyone knows. There are lights hanging on the house and throughout the yard to light the way. There are wreaths on the door and garland hung throughout the house. Red and green are the primary colors based around the
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A festive feel of excitement and delight challenged the dark, ominous sky. The night was losing its battle against the street lights and bright, shiny stalls of the Christmas market. People were humming along to the carols, all wrapped up warm and still enjoying the festivities. Rows of little stalls were lined up, each with customers waiting to be served. A gust of wind blew through, but surprisingly nobody retreated. The Christmas spirit emanating from the little stalls had uplifted everyone.
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Walter Benjamin (1936) The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction ________________________________________ Source: UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television; Transcribed: by Andy Blunden 1998; proofed and corrected Feb. 2005. ________________________________________ “Our fine arts were developed, their types and uses were established, in times very different from the present, by men whose power of action upon things was insignificant in comparison with ours. But the amazing growth
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List of Exercises: 1. Basic arithmetic operations in parallel 2. Find out factorial of a number 3. Generation of Fibonacci series, finding prime numbers in an interval. 4. Evaluate the integral of a function 5. Merging of two sorted lists 6. Parallel tree traversals 7. Matrix multiplication 8. Enumeration sort 9. Odd-Even transposition sort 10. Bitonic merge 11. Quick sort 12. Single source shortest path iii Exercise 1 Aim: Basic Arithmetic Operations in parallel To perform a set of arithmetic
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Summer or Winter.. Which do you prefer? People are always looking forward to their vacation period. There are two season when the people most like to share the most whit their friends and family, and those are the summer and the winter. Sounds familiar to you?, Both seasons offers a great opportunity to enjoy a precious time whit the everybody and the offer different kinds of activity to do and have a lot of fun while we are at it, for example summer offers a lot off outdoor activities like camping
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Christmas and that is what I’m seeing in most Christmas adverts. To be honest the advert had no message in it. The only I actually got was the fact someone doesn’t know how to fix a Christmas tree and there were steps they could follow. It didn’t make any sense since one would walk into a shop and buy a Christmas tree, take it home, open it up and definitely find a manual in it. This completely made no sense! The advert is basically this homemade video and it all started with a potbellied guy singing
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When I stepped outside, the crisp frigid air struck me as if it was a lightning bolt and it quickly reminded me that winter was the most dominant season that existed. The leaves had completely fallen off of the trees and had been replaced by copious amounts of white, fluffy, cotton candy like snow. When I took a breath, the cold air rushed into my lungs and filled them to capacity. I felt like I was drowning, but it wasn’t painful, it felt as if I swallowed a dense cloud. I was then forced to release
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tools and equipment, they would have to spend at least 1,000 for hiring men including the tools used. Pest and diseases: One of their main problems is controlling plants diseases and pests. These are the list of the pests and diseases per fruit tree: * Rambutan -Army worm -Vein Nicroses (Causes discoloration in leaves) * Durian -Phythoptora (Fungus) -Fruit fly *
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he falls to the floor. 3 removal men in overalls enter. 2 grab Granddad by the legs and drag him off stage. The 3rd places a small party hat on his head. Removal man Never mind Granddad. Have a nice party hat! 1: Go and put him under the Christmas tree! “Twas the fright before Christmas” by Sid River ©Sid River Visit www.bytheriverside.co.uk for info & more
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