Application Report SPRA420A - February 2000 Switched Reluctance Motor Control – Basic Operation and Example Using the TMS320F240 Michael T. DiRenzo Digital Signal Processing Solutions ABSTRACT This report describes the basic operation of switched reluctance motors (SRMs) and demonstrates how a TMS320F240 DSP-based SRM drive from Texas Instruments (TI™) can be used to achieve a wide variety of control objectives. The first part of the report offers a detailed review of the operation
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Financial Risk Management at Toyota Abstract: Toyota Motor Corporation (Toyota) is Japan’s largest and the world’s fourth-largest automobile manufacturer. The company offers well-known car models like Camry‚ Corona‚ Corolla and Lexus. Though a late entrant‚ compared to General Motors and Ford‚ Toyota has become one of the strongest players in the automobile industry. Toyota has continued to set new benchmarks for providing value to customers more effectively than competitors. Toyota is exposed to market
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Toyota Revs up U.S. Sales Threats: The Japanese market is getting more competitive and Toyota is losing sales to Nissan and Honda. Chevrolet and Ford are selling better in the U.S. The "Toyota takeover" is not assured. Japanese manufactures gaining a foothold in the US market. American companies are working to update the styling of their cars. Opportunities: Exploiting the U.S. Attaining more local managers in order to Americanize. Import taxes and current risk
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Miltiadis A. Boboulos Manufacturing Processes and Materials: Exercises Download free ebooks at bookboon.com 2 Manufacturing Processes and Materials: Exercises © 2010 Miltiadis A. Boboulos & Ventus Publishing ApS ISBN 978-87-7681-695-7 Download free ebooks at bookboon.com 3 Contents Manufacturing Processes and Materials: Exercises Contents Summary 6 Question 1: Non-conventional manufacturing processes 7 Question 2: The Electro-discharge Machining (EDM)
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Companies‚ especially in the manufacturing industry‚ are always trying to find new ways of operating while getting rid of the ones that are found to add little or no value at all. Increased productivity by reducing inefficiencies and waste is a direct result of using a process termed Continuous Improvement (CI) (Cagliano et al. 2005). The Plan‚ Do‚ Check‚ Act (PDCA) Cycle‚ also know as the Deming Cycle‚ is a model used in CI. By using the PDCA Cycle‚ or a form of it‚ companies and firms will continuously
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Wriston Manufacturing We identified seven factors contributing to the variance in overhead costs from plant to plant. However‚ in order to best understand how these factors contribute to inter-plant variance‚ it is helpful to first take note of the individual components of total overhead. As noted in the case‚ fixed overhead includes depreciation‚ utilities‚ salaries‚ and fringe benefit costs of employees‚ whereas variable costs consist of first-line supervisors’ wages‚ costs of set-up labor‚ scrap
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Ford Motor Company OVERVIEW Ford Motor Company is a global automotive industry leader based in Dearborn‚ Mich.‚ manufactures and distributes automobiles in 200 markets across six continents. With about 300‚000 employees and 108 plants worldwide‚ the company’s core and affiliated automotive brands include Aston Martin‚ Ford‚ Jaguar‚ Land Rover‚ Lincoln‚ Mazda‚ Mercury and Volvo. Its automotive-related services include Ford Motor Credit Company. Ford Motor Company’s key peoples • Board of
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Agile Manufacturing In 1991‚ an industry-led study‚ sponsored by the United States Navy Mantech Program‚ and supported by the Iacocca Institute at Lehigh University in the United States‚ was conducted in order to originate a new paradigm for successful manufacturing enterprises. The report of that study‚ entitled “21st Century Manufacturing Enterprise Strategy”‚ coined the term “agile manufacturing” History of Agile Manufacturing The report which is entitled “21st Century Manufacturing Enterprise
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analysis of Toyota This is a Toyota Motor Corporation SWOT analysis for 2013. Company background Name Toyota Motor Corporation Industries served Automotive Geographic areas served Worldwide Headquarters Japan Current CEO Akio Toyoda Revenue ¥18.583 trillion (2012) Profit ¥283.55 billion (2012) Employees 300‚747 (2012) Main Competitors Bayerische Motoren Werke AG‚ Chrysler Group LLC‚ Daimler AG‚ Ford Motor Co.‚ General Motors Company‚ Honda Motor Company‚ Nissan Motor‚ Tata Motors‚ Ltd.‚
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company that was not highly leveraged leading to high financial flexibility. This allowed the firm to repurchase share and make acquisitions when the opportunities were there. Interco has four major divisions; Apparel Manufacturing‚ General Retail Merchandising‚ Footwear Manufacturing and Retailing and Furniture and Home Furnishings. Within these divisions were independent companies. Interco’s goals were long-term sales and growth of earnings‚ higher return on corporate assets and improved return on
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