int. j. prod. res.‚ 2001‚ vol. 39‚ no. 16‚ 3561±3600 A review of agile manufacturing systems LUIS M. SANCHEZy and RAKESH NAGIy* About a decade ago‚ the agile manufacturing paradigm was formulated in response to the constantly changing `new economy’ and as a basis for returning to global competitiveness. While agility means di erent things to di erent enterprises under di erent contexts‚ the following elements capture its essential concept: agility is characterized by cooperativeness and synergism
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The Instrument Landing System Up to now‚ your instrument approach experience has allowed you to land in weather conditions as adverse as an overcast ceiling of 400 ft. and visibility as low as one-half mile. NDB and VOR approaches‚ with their lateral guidance to the runway‚ greatly improve the reliability of flight schedules. But without the capability to provide vertical guidance to the runway they are limited in utility. No vertical guidance classes them as non-precision approaches. The
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Personality Assessment Instrument Dechazlon C. Burnett Psych/525 March 30‚ 2012 Nancy Berman Lees Personality Assessment Instrument There have been a lot of assessments used in the selecting of possible top candidates in the job market today; it has also been used very well in the educational system as well. Looking more in depth of what Personality Assessment is all about‚ According to "The Free Dictionary" (2012)‚ it is defined as a “questionnaire that is supposed to yield a description
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Botany Lab Introduction to Microscope Circa 1000 AD. = the first vision aid was invented (inventor unknown) called a reading stone. Circa 1284= Italian‚ Salvino D’ Armante is credited inventing the first bearable eye glass. 1590= two dutch eye glass makers‚ Zaccharias Janssen and Hans Janssen experimented with multiple lenses. 1665= English Physicist‚ Robert Hooke looked at a silver of cork through a microscope lens and noticed some “pores” or “cells”. 1674= Anton Van Leeuwenhoek built
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Musical Instruments The Chinese philosopher Confucius said long ago that “Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.” Being able to play any musical instrument is extremely satisfying. This includes everyone from the person who has mastered her instrument right down to the beginner who knows only a few chords. I personally believe that if there’s one thing you should learn in your lifetime‚ it’s how to play an instrument. Learning to play a musical instrument offers
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Statutory Instrument 89 of 2013: A case of political law The recently gazetted Statutory Instrument 89 of 2013 (S.I.89 of 2013) has confirmed the long held public assumption that politics in Zimbabwe precedes law‚ that our problems are inherently political and the law is created and interpreted to suit certain political ambitions. S.I.89 of 2013 (termed Electoral (Accreditation of Observers) Regulations)‚ which is one of the many instruments that have been gazetted as ZANU PF prepares to frog
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Negotiable Instruments Law (Act No. 2031) Chapter I. INTRODUCTION 1. The Negotiable Instrument Written contract for the payment of money‚ by its form intended as substitute for money and intended to pass from hand to hand to give the HDC the right to hold the same and collect the sum due. Instruments are negotiable when they conform to all the requirements prescribed by the NIL (Act 2031‚ 03 February 1911). Although considered as medium for payment of obligations‚ negotiable instruments are not legal
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A public policy Instrument constitutes a device that is both technical and social‚ that organizes specific social relations between the state and those it is addressed to‚ according to the representations and meanings it carries. It is a particular type of institution‚ a technical device with the generic purpose of carrying a concrete concept of the politics/society relationship and sustained by a concept of regulation It is possible to differentiate between levels of observation by
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Critique of Personality Assessment Instrument Lisa Clark Measurement and Statistics/PSYCH 525 December 6‚ 2010 Thomas Snider‚ PHD Abstract Psychological assessment instrument has four types of assessment that is used to determine and measure an individual personality. These psychological assessments are: qualities‚ observation‚ thinking‚ and feelings that characterize the individual. Psychological personality assessment instrument has many reasons of why there are four types and how
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AGW610 LESSON 3 CASE 3: Morgan Manufacturing Charles Crutchfield‚ manager of manufacturing operations at Morgan Manufacturing‚ was evaluating the performance of the company. Given his position‚ he was primarily interested in the health of the operating aspects of the business. At Morgan‚ the gross margin percentage was considered to be a key measure of operating performance; other measures considered to provide essential information on the health of business operations were pre-tax return on sales
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