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Strategic MRO: A Roadmap for Transforming Assets into Competitive Advantage combines the concepts of enterprise asset management and the associated maintenance, repair, and operating/overhaul (MRO) materials supply chain. It introduces the breakthrough Demand Supply Compression (DSC) methodology, which guides an organization's thinking and doing as it seeks performance improvement. Like Lean, DSC provides a practical path forward by changing a mind frame and the way in which work is performed.Focused on achieving a future perfect and guided by meaningful principles, organizations will learn to apply compression strategies to drive out waste, time, and non-value adding activities from their strategic MRO practices.Strategic MRO utilizes case studies from a wide variety of businesses to demonstrate strategic MRO practices and implementation -- It can be successfully applied to any business where maximizing return on assets is critical to success.This is much more than a maintenance management or supply chain book because it encompasses both asset management and supply chain practices -- Strategic MRO will transform your assets into a strategic advantage.

Being Red is an intimate memoir of an extraordinary time--the years Howard Fast, one of our nation's most popular authors, spent in the American Communist Party, and under the constant surveillance of the FBI. 8-page photo insert.

Showing how to use group theory to solve high energy physics problems, this text presents groups, especially Lie groups, and their characteristics in a way that is easily comprehensible to physicists. The book illustrates the importance of group representations to accommodate elementary particles with specific characteristics. With numerous worked examples and problems, it also discusses the role of continuous groups in advancing our understanding of particles and their interactions. A solutions manual and figures slides are available with qualifying course adoption.

Especially effective in dynamic and highly competitive environments, the Amoeba Management System has received attention from the Harvard Business Review and has been successfully adopted at hundreds of companies around the world. Written by the system's creator, this book provides a complete introduction to this unique and time-tested method of management control and accounting. Explaining the management philosophy and principles, it unveils fresh insights on how to foster a culture of leadership and responsibility in your organization.

The synergy of the human and technological aspects of Lean form what Henry Ford called a universal code for achieving world-class results in any enterprise. This book expands upon and systemizes this universal code into a structure or framework that promotes organizational self-audits and continuous improvement. The first section offers a foundation of four simple but comprehensive Lean key performance indicators (KPIs): waste of the time of things (as in cycle time), waste of the time of people, waste of energy, and waste of materials. The second section consists of an unofficial (and therefore customizable) standard against which the organization can audit its Lean management system.

LTE Advanced significantly enhances the existing LTE Rel-8 and supports much higher peak rates, higher throughput, greater coverage, and lower latencies, resulting in a better user experience. This book discusses in detail the air interface technologies of LTE-A. The text fully explains the selection of technology and its evolution. The authors have attended many 3GPP meetings and make it easy for a senior technical person to start learning LTE-A.

The decision to initiate a "High Tide" of agricultural co-operativisation in 1955 in China, is documented in this text. The social impact, policy conflict and leadership style of Mao is detailed, drawing upon documentary sources, interviews with Party historians, and a chronology of events.

An ethnography of the Dugum Dani, this work centers on the issue of hostility between groups of human beings and the place and function of violence. Other aspects of Dani life and organization are shown in interrelationship with the institution of warfare, such as the social, ecological, and technological elements in the Dani way of life.

The foundation of this volume is the notion that the several processes of change constituting economic and social development are systematically interrelated

Addresses themes such as the views and beliefs of citizens in the post-Communist states on the transition to market economies and parliamentary democracy; the role of ideology in legitimating inequality; the structural determination of beliefs about justice; and the processes that shape individual level evaluations.

Designed for various types of college courses, this book discusses the interpretation of statistical data in such fields as the economy, business, demography, housing, health, education and crime.

This work investigates a case of political persecution that occurred over 50 years ago (the Wang case), but which still raises profound issues for the relationship between revolutionary regimes and the intellectuals who serve them. Song Jinshou has compiled a list of the documents of the Wang case.

This book is intended to be a resource for students, a guide for future researchers, and a call to concerned citizens to use this wealth of information to guide their own efforts to mitigate the pernicious effects of stigma in their daily lives.

A detailed commentary about the V-chip and its impact on communication policy. For scholars, lawyers, policy makers, and others interested in mass comm., broadcasting, and program rating issues.

The book is an edited volume on the latest in group research. It will be of interest to social psychologists, organizational and management professors and can be used as a text in group dynamics or teamwork.

Analyzes the newly available statistical evidence on income distribution in the former Soviet Union both by social group and by republic, and considers the significance of inequalities as a factor contributing to the demise of the Communist regime.

This text presents a selection of essays and speeches written between 1890 and 1930 by Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, A. Philip Randolph and Marcus Garvey. The work analyses African-American political thought, defining the options confronting African Americans in the 20th century.

This text presents a selection of essays and speeches written between 1890 and 1930 by Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, A. Philip Randolph and Marcus Garvey. The work analyses African-American political thought, defining the options confronting African Americans in the 20th century.

First Published in 2017. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an Informa company.

Guides readers through the planning and data collection phases and presents various data analysis techniques, including methods for sample size determination. Covers techniques for developing models - a basis for future research and reporting techniques to ensure proper credit. Concludes with case-control and cohort studies. R code is included.

Drawing on the author¿s lectures on fluid mechanics modeling, this text takes a rigorous approach to the topic while maintaining a clear, easy-to-understand style. It deals with the main physical phenomena that occur in slow, inertialess viscous flows commonly encountered in various industrial, biophysical, and natural processes. Suitable for students in chemical or mechanical engineering, bioengineering, and physics, the book discusses a wide variety of topics, including confined flows, complex fluids, and rheology. Each situation is illustrated with examples and multi-part problems that stress analytical solutions and the physical interpretation of the mathematical results.

This book provides technical information on multimedia security and steganography as well as the fundamental theoretical framework for developing extensive advanced techniques. By understanding essential principles of multimedia security and steganographic systems, readers can develop novel ideas in implementing advanced algorithms. Topics include automatic detection and removal of visible image watermarks, digital watermarking based on chaotic map and reference register, digital steganographic schemes based on image vector quantization, image inpainting using an enhanced exemplar-based algorithm, and behavior modeling of human objects in multimedia content.

Designed to target scientists as well as clinicians, this book provides critical understanding of the key checkpoints that regulate chronic inflammation¿which is associated with numerous chronic diseases and disorders, including autoimmune diseases, atherosclerosis, cancer, diabetes, high blood pressure, and obesity. The text provides a comprehensive understanding of the epidemiology of chronic inflammation, as well as novel regulatory mechanisms controlling inflammation initiation, progression, and resolution. The authors address pathologies associated with inflammation and provide various nutritional and therapeutic interventions for inflammatory diseases.

Roots have a significant role in crop production. This volume examines root architecture and development dynamics to help plant and soil scientists and those in related fields improve crop productivity. The author emphasizes production, plant nutrition, and soil chemistry relative to root growth and functions. Chapters cover root morphology and functions; nutrient and water uptake; root-soil, root-environment, and root-microbe interactions; and the physiology of root crops. The book also explores management practices to improve root growth. Information in the book is supported by experimental results.

Providing insight and understanding of practical and methodological issues related to decision-making processes under uncertainty conditions in the service industries, this book integrates decision-making tools with real-world examples to present world-wide best practices as well as theoretical and applied strategies such as the use of hybrid and stochastic algorithms. It discusses emerging tendencies regarding decision-support systems and information systems to support decision-making in real scenarios and includes up-to-date research on how probabilistic algorithms and simulation-based approaches are changing experiences and practices in service management.

Going beyond the traditional field of robotics to include other mobile vehicles, this reference and "recipe book" describes important theoretical concepts, techniques, and applications that can be used to build truly mobile intelligent autonomous systems (MIAS). With the infusion of neural networks, fuzzy logic, and genetic algorithm paradigms for MIAS, it blends modeling, sensors, control, estimation, optimization, signal processing, and heuristic methods in MIAS and robotics, and includes examples and applications throughout. Offering a comprehensive view of important topics, it helps readers understand the subject from a system-theoretic and practical point of view.

Demystifying the accelerating research and product development process involved in nanotechnology, this book employs illustrations and lucid explanations to examine the integration and exploitation of intellectual property rights (IPR) as a tool in research and development, technology transfer, and safe commercialization. Requiring no prior legal experience of readers, it illuminates the nuances and integral role of IPR in technology development, from product inception through commercialization. This indispensible book destroys illusions in the minds of stakeholders and builds confidence to establish a framework for an agile, working product development model.

Discussing the role of plasma proteins in current biotechnology, this book describes the protein composition of human plasma, the fractionation of plasma to obtain therapeutic proteins, and the analysis of these products. It delineates the path from plasma products to recombinant products, and highlights products from albumin, intravenous immunoglobins, and coagulation. It offers a comprehensive review of current techniques for the analysis of proteins including electrophoresis, chromatography, spectrophotometry, and mass spectrometry, as well as updates not published since 1975.

Presenting a collection of cutting-edge real-time techniques, tools, and applications for various engineering fields, this reference helps readers develop a thorough understanding of the theory and practical aspects of real-time simulation. It introduces cutting-edge industrial and academic simulation tools and examines a variety of distributed and interactive real-time simulation methods. Content is divided into four sections: basic simulation technologies and fundamentals, real-time simulation for system design, parallel and distributed real-time simulation, and tools and applications. This material covers a wide range of diverse application domains, including control, aerospace, automotive, hydraulics, military, and training.

Combining biology, ecology, and limnology with environmental management, this handbook provides a profound understanding of the best environmental strategy for resolving environmental problems in inland aquatic ecosystems. The text includes both basic theories and comprehensive practices. It presents all available tools for environmental and ecological management and illustrates their practical use in solving environmental problems that threaten inland aquatic ecosystems. Offering a powerful framework for identifying the ecological mechanisms that interact with global environmental problems, this book helps you manage inland waters in a more holistic manner.