...Huntsville Plant Communication Plan The communication plan is an important document for any undertaking. In any relationship, communication is key to its success. When one or more members are not involved in the process, problems begin to form. It may be as simple as a paint scheme, extending a floor several feet more, or can be a major change, such as a site change or requesting more material and labor. The biggest thing that the communication plan brings to a project team is providing a plan in which to mitigate problems and execute the project in the same manner as it is drawn up, thereby ensuring that everyone involved is on the same page. The project communication also outlines the level of involvement in which each person must communicate. As we discussed, communication involves a sender, a medium, and a receiver. For each specific event that we have outlined in our communication plan, there is a plan that clearly defines who the sender is, what medium to transmit that information, and the recipients. The different levels of communication change as the significant impact to the project as a whole will be different. For example, the daily meetings can be done through a teleconference, with all members actively being there and participating. This could be equated to the morning breakfast that you would have with your family. Pleasantries aside, this keeps all members of the team involved and aware of what is going on from a day to day basis. The meeting with the...
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...Huntsville Plant Project – Communication Plan Project Management Systems Course Number: PROJ 586 Bradford C. Jenkins August 8, 2012 Instructor: Professor Susan Orr Type of Communication | Purpose | Attendees | Responsible | Communication Vehicle/Method of Delivery | Frequency | Monthly Status/In-Progress report to Plant Executives | To keep the senior leadership of the campus informed of the project’s progress and key upcoming activities. | - Executive Sponsor- Steering Committee- Executive Committee- Computing Advisory Committee | Project Manager | - Email Distribution List- Publication via Project Website | Monthly | Weekly Schedule Metrics | Monitor and report progress on scheduled tasks. Troubleshoot problem areas and solve or escalate issues as appropriate. | - Project Management Team- Steering Committee- Others as needed | Project Manager | - Email Distribution List- Publication via Project Website- Steering Committee Meeting | Weekly | Project Team Calendar | Keep project participants aware of key project dates and to help them manage their schedules. Maintain training calendars. | - All Project Members/Teams/Committees | Project Coordinator | Post in Project Folder | Updated as Needed | Figure 4: Huntsville Plant Project – Communication Plan Communication in Projects One of the most critical means of ensuring project success is to establish effective and open lines of communication between the project manager and all project team members...
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...Barcelona Plant. The SONY Head Quarters would put Barcelona Plant as a pilot, and extend the experiences to the three European Plants even the global market. This paper will analyze the business situation in Europe and the problems in Ideal Factory as well as analyze the benefits and risks on continuing with the European STAR Project or defining an independent strategy. Situation summary STAR launched in mid 1997 in order to standardize the production and procurement processes, and apply information system in three SONY plants in Europe, however, the progress and results of the project was disappointing. Also, the Ideal Factory, which is with the initial arm of improving efficiencies and coordination among three plants in Europe, presented many problems and questioned by staff such as some plant managers. Therefore, Ferran Gil, the Plant General Director, affirmed that Barcelona Plant needed to define a new Plant model due to competitors' fast growth meant shorter production lifecycles and greater pressure in profit margins. There also have some different views on this issues. Some problems of implementing STAR Project 1. Cost. Because the project was centralized in London, the transportation cost would be high when project members had to attend the monthly meeting. Also, due to high consumption in Europe, three plants may be too much for this area. 2. Satisfaction. Each plant has their own situation, thus it is hard to satisfy different needs among three plants. 3. Problems...
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...poorest profitability and growth records in the American economy. Yet, despite operating in a fundamentally troubled industry, during this time period, Nucor enjoyed an annual compounded sales growth rate of 17%, all generated organically. Furthermore, the company’s profit margins were consistently well above industry medians, and average annual return to shareholders exceeded 20% (see Box 1 for a business profile of Nucor Corporation). Nucor achieved this phenomenal and sustained success by excelling at a single task: creating and mobilizing knowledge in order to become, and remain, the most efficient steel producer in the world. It did so by developing and constantly upgrading three competencies that were both strategic and proprietary: plant construction and start-up know-how, manufacturing process know-how, and ability to adopt breakthrough technologies earlier and more effectively than competitors. We present below an analysis of...
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...This was arguably the biggest population shift in present day history. Spanish conquistador Pizarro captures Atahualpa equaling the greatest modern history collision. The only Natives able to resist European capture were those that mastered horse riding and gun usage. Yet, steel, armor, and helmets played a more distinct role than guns. Horses assisted and were a determining factor in defeating the Native Americans. The Spaniards confronted a split realm that murdered the Inca emperor and his beneficiary: smallpox. Communication was by means of writing for the Spaniards. The Inca’s were oblivious to what the Spaniards were capable of, leading to their...
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...Company The PGP Company was a large concern making many types of consumer products. It had six plants spread around the country. Their purchasing procedures had never been completely coordinated. In fact, the head office of the company had encouraged each of the plant managers to operate with their staffs as separate independent units in most matters. In 2005, when it began to appear that the company would face increasing difficulty in securing essential raw materials, Mr. Seth, the CEO, recruited an experienced purchasing executive, Mr. Ghosh, as VP in charge of purchasing—a position especially created for him. Mr. Seth gave Mr. Ghosh wide latitude in organizing his job, and assigned Mr. Murthy (who had served the company in various capacities for many years, and knew most of the plant executives personally) as his assistant. Mr. Ghosh’s appointment was announced through the formal channels usual in the company, including the house magazine. One of Mr. Ghosh’s first decisions was to begin immediately to centralize the company’s purchasing procedure. As a first step he decided that he would require each of the executives who handled purchasing in the individual plants to clear with the head office all purchase contracts which they made in excess of Rs. 1 lakh. He felt that if the head office was to do any coordinating in a way that was helpful to each plant and the company as a whole, he must be notified that the contracts were being prepared at least a week...
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...building a friendship is like planting a garden. For many people, planting a garden represents devotion and leisure. It takes patience to grow a garden, frustrations and hardships are also involved in the process. Firstly the seed is planted. The seed builds the foundation of a strong and stable plant. It has to be taken care of and watered daily. Then the shoots start sprouting, the plant is finally flourishing. One can see day by day the garden maturing. Then one day the garden starts to wilt, its dying. One has to tend to it and have the patience and determination to bring it back to life. It frustrates one to see the insects and predators preying on the beautiful garden that once existed. But hard work and devotion regains the gardens beauty and gives it life again. Soon a shoots blossom and bloom into beautiful flowers. The charm and divine beauty of the garden is a wonderful enlightening sight. Building a friendship has similar characteristics. One meets a person and plants the seed of friendship. The friendship builds and continues to grow stronger. It requires devotion of time and patience to achieve peak communication between the two companions. The struggle to keep a solid friendship includes many obstacles and hardships. But compromising, devotion and the willingness to endure are bound to payoff in the end. As Bernard Wolf quotes ^It takes a long time to grow an old friendship^. Friendship has its good and bad times. There comes a...
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...across the industrial sector. As simple definition, the safety culture is “Making sure people are not harmed is how we do things here”. This work evaluate the safety climate as it is reflection for the safety culture and easier to evaluate. The evaluation done for private power companies located in Bahrain. First plant (plant A) is for power generation, second plant (plant B) is for power generation and water production. Both plants are belong to the same mother company. The evaluation done through questionnaire including all the staff (around 200). The questionnaire designed by the help of the health and safety department of the mother company. Also, by interviews that used to support the questionnaire. Analysis has been done by different statistical methods using Microsoft excel software. The results of safety climate evaluation showed that the overall level of safety for is above average (3.72 of 5). In addition, the safety level for plant A (3.93) is higher than plant B (3.49). By studying the safety level for different departments, four groups were identified, which are: 1) Plant A daytime workers, 2) Plant A shift workers, 3) Plant B daytime workers, and 4) Plant B shift workers. The level of safety for daytime workers were higher than shift workers. Also, the study reveal some factors that affect the safety climate level, such as, the nature of the work, the experience and the number of attended workshops. 1. Introduction Part of human nature is the need to safety...
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...Man has understood his connection to nature since the beginning of time. The ancient Neanderthals had a poor method of communication; our only record of their trials and existence are the drawings that have been preserved in caves. Yet, despite their inability to comprehend complex ideas, their paintings contain innumerable images of animals and plants. The Native Americans believed that they were spiritually connected to the earth, using pieces of nature as symbols in their writing and performing ceremonies that honored animals and “Mother Earth.” As time passed, people forgot these things, believing that the earth and its resources were there solely for human consumption. They forgot that they must live in a mutually peaceful existence with the earth, rather than try to harness it and control it for their own gain. In Stanley Moss’s poem “Lost Brother,” he brings the reader to an understanding, a realization that man has an unmistakable bond with nature, one that never has and never will be broken. One of the very first things that Moss does is associate himself with the tree by saying that it was his “lost brother,” which happens to also be the title of the poem. With these two words, the poet speaks multitudes. He brings the close familiarity of a brother to the relationship between him and the tree, a few lines later stating that “[they] had the same mother.” Immediately he draws us into an understanding that we are as closely connected to the earth as the tree is and that...
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...UNIT 1 INDIVIDUAL PROJECT Biology – SCIE206 by AIU Online May 3, 2014 UNIT 1 IP Introduction During the winter season salt is spread onto the driveway and streets to melt the snow. In the springtime, when the lawn begins to grow, there is no growing of grass for about three inches from the driveway. The grass where the salt was not placed has normal growth as usual. Furthermore, the grass seems to be growing more slowly about one inch from the driveway. This paper will explain the reason why the grass is not growing back the same. This paper will examine how salt reacts with grass. Hypothesis The chemicals that makeup the salt that is used to melt the snow during the winter season is believed to inhibit the growth of grass in the spring. Prediction Grass will not grow where there is a high concentration of salt in the soil. Controlled Experiment Find an area that’s contains healthy green grass. Place a border around a small section of that area securing it from the rest of the grass. It would be better to cut away two sections of the area. Make sure both section are identical in size. In one section 250ml of salt will be use and in the other section 500ml of salt will be used. Add the different liters of salt measurements to each section. Wait ten to twenty days. Record the information and compare the different between the 250ml and the 500ml...
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...JoTT CommuniCation 3(7): 1899–1908 Some aspects of the ecology of the Indian Giant Squirrel Ratufa indica (Erxleben, 1777) in the tropical forests of Mudumalai Wildlife Sanctuary, southern India and their conservation implications Nagarajan Baskaran 1, S. Venkatesan 2, J. Mani 3, Sanjay K. Srivastava 4 & Ajay A. Desai 5 Bombay Natural History Society, Bear Bungalow, Kargudi, The Nilgiris, Tamil Nadu 643211, India Present Address: Asian Nature Conservation Foundation, Innovation Centre, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560012, India 4 Tamil Nadu Forest Department, Panagal Building, No. 1 Geenis Road, Saidapet, Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600015, India 5 Present Address: BC 84 Camp, Belgaum, Karnataka 590001, India Email: 1 baskar@ces.iisc.ernet.in (corresponding author), 4 sks2700@yahoo.co.in, 5 ajayadesai.1@gmail.com 1,2,3,5 1 Date of publication (online): 26 July 2011 Date of publication (print): 26 July 2011 ISSN 0974-7907 (online) | 0974-7893 (print) Editor: Renee Borges Manuscript details: Ms # o2593 Received 01 October 2010 Final received 29 January 2011 Finally accepted 09 July 2011 Citation: Baskaran, N., S. Venkatesan, J. Mani, S.K. Srivastava & A.A. Desai (2011). Some aspects of the ecology of the Indian Giant Squirrel Ratufa indica (Erxleben, 1777) in the tropical forests of Mudumalai Wildlife Sanctuary, southern India and their conservation implications. Journal of Threatened Taxa 3(7): 1899–1908. Copyright: © Nagarajan Baskaran, S. Venkatesan,...
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...of.” • literally the study of households including the plants, animals, microbes, and people that live together as interdependent beings on Spaceship Earth. 2/13/2014 7 Ecological Concepts Introduction to Natural Sciences Ecology has been defined by the Ecological Society of America (1993) as: The Four Laws of Ecology 1. Everything is connected to everything else. 2. Everything must go somewhere. 3. Nature knows best. 4. There is no such thing as a free lunch. • The scientific discipline that is concerned with the relationships between organisms and their past, present, and future environments. • These relationships include physiological responses of individuals, structure and dynamics of populations, interactions among species, organization of biological communities, and processing of energy and matter in ecosystems 2/13/2014 8 2/13/2014 10 Nature consists of a number of systems called “spheres”: • • • • • The atmosphere (air and what is in it) The hydrosphere (water in its liquid form) The lithosphere (land, rocks and below) The biosphere (all the living organisms) The anthroposphere (human system) Anthroposphere • The built environment (buildings, roads, and other infrastructure) • Agriculture (also called the Primary Sector) • The manufacturing industry (also called the Secondary Sector) • The service industry (also called the Tertiary Sector) • Energy production infrastructure (power plants). 2/13/2014 11 2/13/2014 13 1 2/13/2014 ...
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...bacteria, while more complex organisms such as humans are multi-cellular. An organism is defined as an individual animal, plant or single-celled life form. Therefore the cell is considered the smallest unit of life competent of a self-sufficient existence. There are seven things that all living organisms from bacteria to plants to animals all have in common and whether something is living or not is usually compared to the seven life processes. These processes are movement, reproduction, sensitivity, growth, respiration, excretion and nutrition. The acronym ‘MRS GREN’ will be used when discussing the processes of life movement All living things move to some kind of degree and this is the most apparent within the animal kingdom. Animals are able to physically move themselves from one place to another; humans will usually use their muscles in order to be able to move where as other animals may have to hop, crawl, swim or fly. Movement is very important for gathering sustenance and escaping predators. Movement within plants is generally by growth, many of the higher part of plants for example flowers, branches and roots will move as they grow however this process can be quite slow. Many plants follow the movement of the sun through the sky during the day and will often turn their flowers or leaves to face the direction of the sun for example the sunflower. Some plants...
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...consumption are sunlight, temperature, precipitation, water, and soil. Sunlight and temperature are both contributions to energy consumption. By using the sunlight and the temperature we can use other renewable resources for sources of light and energy instead of using the nonrenewable resources we currently use. Water and soil are affected by sunlight and temperature already. Living factors that may contribute or be affected by energy consumption are herbivores (animals that only eat plants), carnivores (Animals that feed on other animals or material of animal origin), and omnivores (Animals that feed on material of both plant and animal origin). When the plants are affected by energy consumption that means that there are less of them for the herbivores to eat and stay alive. If these herbivores don’t have food to eat and stay healthy they will die and the carnivores which feed off of them may get sick and pass on themselves. Omnivores are affected because they may also get sick from eating plants and other animals which are unhealthy due to lack of...
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...the most diverse ecological community and habitats found in the state. The Shut-In Mountain Fens preserve features of more than 15 types of fen communities ("Missouri Shut-In Fens", 2010). It is located in the Ozark Mountains in the southern central part of the state. In 2010, researchers found the rare carnivorous palnt called the Small Bladderwort growing here. The plant is an aquatic plant species that floats on the ponds, lakes and marshes with almost no root system. This animal eating plant feeds off of aquatic invertebrates, such as mosquito larvae, protozoans and tiny crustaceans. That is not the only thing that has been found in the plants traps though. Small tadpoles and newly hatched fish have also been found to fall prey to this carnivorous plant. The Small Bladderwort is Missouri’s only carnivorous plant. A plant eating animals is a rare quality, so to find one around where you live is an exciting thing. The plant does not really have an intrinsic value. It is mainly just about what they are and what they are about. It is not thought that this plant has any beneficial use to humans, other than the plant is hughly unique. The Shut-In Mountain fen is also the only home to the Current River Saddled Darter. This fish species is only founf here, in the Current River watershed. This fish is a federally endangered species due to it only having one place in the world that it can be found. This fish is not really unique, only that it is only fooun here. I do not think that it...
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