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Utility and Welfare Optimization in Electricity Market s lays out
clear optimization strategies for understanding the economic
foundations of regulatory supply measures, further cementing
electricity's role as an asset class with fixed and variable costs.
In a world of almost permanent and rapidly increasing electronic data availability, techniques of filtering, compressing, and interpreting this data to transform it into valuable and easily comprehensible information is of utmost importance. One key topic in this area is the capability to deduce future system behavior from a given data input. This book brings together for the first time the complete theory of data-based neurofuzzy modelling and the linguistic attributes of fuzzy logic in a single cohesive mathematical framework. After introducing the basic theory of data-based modelling, new concepts including extended additive and multiplicative submodels are developed and their extensions to state estimation and data fusion are derived. All these algorithms are illustrated with benchmark and real-life examples to demonstrate their efficiency. Chris Harris and his group have carried out pioneering work which has tied together the fields of neural networks and linguistic rule-based algortihms. This book is aimed at researchers and scientists in time series modeling, empirical data modeling, knowledge discovery, data mining, and data fusion.
'What defines the car-saddo condition is not being able to recall a
time when the toy-car-era of your life actually ended. Because for
us sufferers, it never does.' Nobody knows cars like Chris Harris
does. He calls it 'unhinged geekery', but we'd call it infectious
enthusiasm, adrenalin fuelled escapism and rigorous journalistic
integrity. And then there are his famous skills at the wheel, from
city cars to rally cars, not forgetting the Guinness World Record
3.4km sideways in an electric car. And now for the first time,
Harris is going all out with that unhinged geekery, and takes us
down the road of his life-long obssession with the automobile -
from the Scalextric track to the Nürburgring 24 Hour, via his own
formative low-powered Somerset version of The Dukes of Hazard. A
highly individual, petrol-soaked life story that's all down to
variable valve timings.
This study examines the implications for evaluation and assessment
when more responsibility for the learning process is given to the
learner. The text includes sections on peer assessment,
self-assessment, styles of evaluation, references, and the roles of
teacher and learner.
For fans of P is for Pterodactyl comes this groundbreaking spin on
the ABCs that invites readers to look at the alphabet in a whole
new way. An A is an H that just won't stand up right... A B is a D
with its belt on too tight... And a Z is an L in a tug-of-war
fight! Twenty-six letters, unique from each other--and yet, every
letter looks just like one another! Kind of like...one big family.
From two bestselling masters of wordplay and visual high jinks
comes a mind-bending riddle of delightful dopplegängers and
surprising disguises that reveal we're more alike than we may
think.
Although there are many organizations that have implemented Lean
production systems and become more profitable as a result, there
can be a gap between what those organizations currently do and how
they should plan for and profit from new business. Capitalizing on
Lean Production Systems to Win New Business: Creating a Lean and
Profitable New Product Portfolio explains how to create a Lean
product portfolio to fill that gap so you can become more
profitable from that new business. Providing a fundamental
understanding of the Lean enterprise production system, this book
can help an organization take its current Lean knowledge and
translate that knowledge into a step-by-step methodology to win and
launch new business. Lean topics covered include: Value Stream
Mapping Plan for Every Part Process Design and Standard Work
Scheduling and Material Flow Machine Changeover Quality and
Continuous Improvement By developing the New Product Acquisition
and Launch Portfolio presented in this book, you can dramatically
improve your ability to produce the products customers desire and
deliver them on time. Focusing on the concepts that are critical to
the longevity of your Lean enterprise system, this book will help
you understand how to deliver a product that meets the quality and
delivery standards of your customer. It will also help you
understand how this new product fits into your Lean enterprise
system. Detailing how to achieve a successful new product launch
through upfront planning, this book provides you with the tools to
enhance efficiencies throughout your supply chain.
In the global marketplace, no business is a self-contained
island. No matter how effective your internal material movement, to
be a future-thinking business, you must go to the next step and
develop long-term supplier partnerships built on a dedication to
continuous improvement and the basic concepts of Lean
implementation.
Lean Supplier Development: Establishing Partnerships and True
Costs Throughout the Supply Chain provides step-by-step instruction
on how to build partnerships of mutual improvement and success
through supplier development. Offering the same advice that they
have successfully applied to corporations across the globe,
award-winning consultants Chris Harris, Rick Harris, and Chuck
Streeter -
- Provide criteria on how to choose suppliers that will make good
long-term partnerships
- Demonstrate proven methods for employing Plan for Every Part
(PFEP) to link your facility to the supply base
- Present a true cost model that eliminates guesswork when
choosing suppliers to develop
- Show how to develop and maintain efficient information flow all
along your supply chain
- Use real-world examples to cover likely contingencies
- Provide a sample quarterly supplier review that you can adapt
for your own use
Lean is a journey, not a destination. It requires flexible
leaders at the helm who can readily adjust to ever-changing
conditions and it requires like-minded partners all along the
supply chain. Finding and developing these partners is not about
good fortune, it is all about an uncompromising approach to
continuous improvement and the application of systematic methods
that will build working partnerships that broaden your definition
of what is possible
Changing an organization from a mass manufacturing environment to a
lean environment is significant and affects all levels of the
company if the implementation is done correctly. Many times,
however, lean implementers become so involved with the nuts and
bolts of lean implementation that the "people" side of the business
is neglected. Transform your HR Department into an Agent of Change
during Lean Implementation. With an HR perspective, veteran
consultants Chris Harris and Rick Harris walk readers through a
simple, step-by-step proven method for transforming a mass
production workforce into a lean thinking one that possesses the
necessary skills, training, and attitude to march in a new
direction. They explain the role of human resources in a
lean-oriented facility, emphasizing systematic training that
continues for all employees. They also discuss the value of
promoting employees from within a facility to team leader and group
leader positions, and the importance of flexibility. This
critically acclaimed book includes sample training sessions with
explanations. Most of us are now far enough down the path in lean
production to realize that the results lie in the details. This
short volume presents all of the details you will need to create a
frontline workforce and system of direct supervision that can
effectively plan, do, reflect, and adjust, as you move your own
operations steadily ahead.--James Womack, Chairman, Lean Enterprise
Institute
Although there are many organizations that have implemented Lean
production systems and become more profitable as a result, there
can be a gap between what those organizations currently do and how
they should plan for and profit from new business. Capitalizing on
Lean Production Systems to Win New Business: Creating a Lean and
Profitable New Product Portfolio explains how to create a Lean
product portfolio to fill that gap so you can become more
profitable from that new business.Providing a fundamental
understanding of the Lean enterprise production system, this book
can help an organization take its current Lean knowledge and
translate that knowledge into a step-by-step methodology to win and
launch new business. Lean topics covered include: Value Stream
Mapping Plan for Every Part Process Design and Standard Work
Scheduling and Material Flow Machine Changeover Quality and
Continuous Improvement By developing the New Product Acquisition
and Launch Portfolio presented in this book, you can dramatically
improve your ability to produce the products customers desire and
deliver them on time. Focusing on the concepts that are critical to
the longevity of your Lean enterprise system, this book will help
you understand how to deliver a product that meets the quality and
delivery standards of your customer. It will also help you
understand how this new product fits into your Lean enterprise
system.Detailing how to achieve a successful new product launch
through upfront planning, this book provides you with the tools to
enhance efficiencies throughout your supply chain.
Each contribution to this book discusses key issues arising from
the portrayal of men and the formation of masculine identities in a
range of representative and landmark texts, fictional and
non-fictional, drawn from different historical periods and from
various countries in the Hispanophone Americas. There is an
emphasis on the ways in which writers from Argentina (Manuel Puig),
Chile (the Spaniard Alonso de Ercilla y Zuniga and the Chilean
Nicolas Palacios), Mexico (Gustavo Sainz and Angeles Mastretta) and
the Hispanic USA (Jennifer Harbury and Francisco Goldman) have
explored the themes of love, friendship and trust and their
transformative power for gender relations in situations and
contexts where deception, exploitation and oppression are often
disturbingly present. There is also a discussion of the
applications, insights and limitations of different theoretical
frameworks and concepts relevant to the task of producing gendered
readings, including Connell's 'world gender order' and 'hegemonic
masculinity', as well as 'the cult of virility' as characterised by
Still and Worton, Chela Sandoval's 'decolonial love' and
'methodology of the oppressed' and Beasley-Murray's 'posthegemony'.
This book was originally published as a special issue of Iberian
and Latin American Studies.
Dependable information flow is a necessary prerequisite to the
successful implementation of lean production principles. But while
most managers understand how to make materials and manpower flow,
the flow of information tends to be much more underdeveloped. Even
companies that excel at recognizing waste and are otherwise adept
at implementing the principles of lean production are often
challenged to provide satisfactory information flow. Lean
Connections: Making Information Flow Efficiently and Effectively
isdesigned to help you rethink the way your organization views
information flow. It provides the building blocks of a
comprehensive information-flow system, showing you calculations and
methods that will allow you to get the necessary information to
those individuals who need it, when they need it. Following a
logical and detailed progression, this manual shows how to make
information flow in lean production facility From the end customer
through materials control to the production floor On the production
floor at the operator, team, and value stream level And then from
the production floor to the management of the facility Employing a
workbook format, this manual follows RNA Manufacturing, a fictional
company, through its implementation of a comprehensive lean
production system. As the authors outline RNA's methods and thought
processes, they employ exercises that ask questions about your own
production system. Your challenge is to think deeply about the
answers, as well as the changes that need to be made to effectively
make information flow through your facility. Make certain that
everyone gets the information that they need when they need it
In the global marketplace, no business is a self-contained island.
No matter how effective your internal material movement, to be a
future-thinking business, you must go to the next step and develop
long-term supplier partnerships built on a dedication to continuous
improvement and the basic concepts of Lean implementation. Lean
Supplier Development: Establishing Partnerships and True Costs
Throughout the Supply Chain provides step-by-step instruction on
how to build partnerships of mutual improvement and success through
supplier development. Offering the same advice that they have
successfully applied to corporations across the globe,
award-winning consultants Chris Harris, Rick Harris, and Chuck
Streeter Provide criteria on how to choose suppliers that will make
good long-term partnerships Demonstrate proven methods for
employing Plan for Every Part (PFEP) to link your facility to the
supply base Present a true cost model that eliminates guesswork
when choosing suppliers to develop Show how to develop and maintain
efficient information flow all along your supply chain Use
real-world examples to cover likely contingencies Provide a sample
quarterly supplier review that you can adapt for your own use Lean
is a journey, not a destination. It requires flexible leaders at
the helm who can readily adjust to ever-changing conditions and it
requires like-minded partners all along the supply chain. Finding
and developing these partners is not about good fortune, it is all
about an uncompromising approach to continuous improvement and the
application of systematic methods that will build working
partnerships that broaden your definition of what is possible
This study examines the implications for evaluation and assessment
when more responsibility for the learning process is given to the
learner. Including a new section which explains how to match the
evaluation system to the environment, this revised edition includes
sections on peer assessment, self-assessment, styles of evaluation,
references, and the roles of teacher and learner. The ideas are
illustrated with numerous case studies and suggestions for group
work and discussion.
Each contribution to this book discusses key issues arising from
the portrayal of men and the formation of masculine identities in a
range of representative and landmark texts, fictional and
non-fictional, drawn from different historical periods and from
various countries in the Hispanophone Americas. There is an
emphasis on the ways in which writers from Argentina (Manuel Puig),
Chile (the Spaniard Alonso de Ercilla y Zuniga and the Chilean
Nicolas Palacios), Mexico (Gustavo Sainz and Angeles Mastretta) and
the Hispanic USA (Jennifer Harbury and Francisco Goldman) have
explored the themes of love, friendship and trust and their
transformative power for gender relations in situations and
contexts where deception, exploitation and oppression are often
disturbingly present. There is also a discussion of the
applications, insights and limitations of different theoretical
frameworks and concepts relevant to the task of producing gendered
readings, including Connell's 'world gender order' and 'hegemonic
masculinity', as well as 'the cult of virility' as characterised by
Still and Worton, Chela Sandoval's 'decolonial love' and
'methodology of the oppressed' and Beasley-Murray's 'posthegemony'.
This book was originally published as a special issue of Iberian
and Latin American Studies.
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