...SWAIN EXCUTIVE MBA, BATCH: - 2015 - 16 Enrollment No: UMEF15007 SUBMITTED TO PROF. S. PEPPIN XAVIER INSTITUTE OF MANAGENENT, XAVIER UNIVERSITY INTRODUCTION Wangari Maathai was a renowned Kenyan environmentalist activist who spent the better half of her life fighting for environmental issues. Her original name was Wangari Muta. She was the first African woman environmentalist to be honoured with the prestigious Nobel Prize for her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace. Also she was the first African woman to be awarded with a doctorate degree. It was her excellent academic background and great skills that earned her prestigious positions at the University of Nairobi. In 1970s, she founded the Green Belt Movement, which involved planting trees to conserve the environment. With time, the non-government organization expanded and focussed on environmental conservation and women’s rights as well. In 2006, France bestowed upon her one of its highest decorations, Legion d’honneur. SHORT BIOGRAPHY Childhood & Early Life * Wangari Maathai was born as on 1 April 1940 in the village of Ihithe in the central highlands of the colony of Kenya. * Two years later, she shifted along with her parents to a farm near Rift Valley where her father had found work. * In 1947, she returned to Ihithe, for lack of educational opportunities at the farm. * At the age of eight, she enrolled at the Ihithe Primary School and within three years...
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...(Short Title: MCMAP) (a) MCO 3500.27, Operational Risk Management (b) Martial Arts Center of Excellence (MACE) website, https://WWW.TBS.USMC.MIL/PAGES/MARTIAL_ARTS (c) MCO P1020.34F, Marine Corps Uniform Regulations (d) MCO 1510.122A, Individual Training Standards for the Marine Corps Martial Arts Program (MCMAP) (e) MCO P1080.40A, Marine Corps Total Force System Personnel Reporting Instructions Manual (MCTFSPRIM) (f) MCO P1700.29, Marine Corps Semper Fit Program Manual (g) MCO P1070.12, Marine Corps Individual Records Administration Manual (IRAM) (1) Performance Evaluations and Promotions in the Belt Ranking Achievement System (2) Guidelines for the completion of an Elements of Martial Culture Analysis (3) Guidelines for the completion of a Unit Training Integration Plan (4) Example Request for Promotion to Black Belt Fourth Degree (5) Example Request for Promotion to Black Belt Fifth and Sixth Degree (6) NAVMC 11432 Instructors Course Record Encl: 1. Purpose. This order establishes policies, procedures, and standards for effective management, operation, and maintenance of the Marine Corps Martial Arts Program (MCMAP). 2. Cancellation. MCO 1500.54. 3. Background. MCMAP is an integrated martial art designed for and executed by all Marines throughout their careers. MCMAP is a revolutionary step in the development of martial skills for Marines and replaces all other close combat-related systems preceding its introduction. Previously, close combat programs DISTRIBUTION...
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...is a level of how much a process differs from exactness (Russell & Taylor, 2013). The goal for Six Sigma is equal to or less than 3.4 defects (anything outside of a customer’s specifications) per million opportunities (Russell & Taylor, 2013). Six Sigma has two sub-methodologies (practices, procedures and rules) DMAIC (define, measure, analyze, improve, control) which is a system for improvement of existing processes which fall below standards and looks for improvement, and DMADV (define, measure, analyze, design, verify) which is used to develop new products or procedures at the most highest quality levels (Russell & Taylor, 2013). Both of these processes are achieved by project team members (green belts) and project leaders (black belts) and overseen by supervisors (mater black belts). In Lean Systems there are five concepts. The fifth is Poka-yoke, in short it is the prevention of defects from occurring, also known as “fool-proofing” (Russell & Taylor, 2015, Chap. 16). Poka-yokes create correct conditions prior to executing step, preventing defects from happening in the first place. Any item, action, or worker involved in production can have a defect causing failure of a product, so it is vital to reach a defect free zone. There are two methods for prevention based poka-yokes. First is the Control Method which senses a problem and stops production hopefully before production begins. An example is if there are missing parts of a bicycle, production would not start or...
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...Quality Issues with Toyota Motor Vehicles Randy Kenepp 821 Vickie Drive Del City, OK 73115 Phone: 405-473-7998 Email: rkenepp@gmail.com Managing Quality - BSOP 588 Professor: Richard Sheng October 19, 2014 I. Introduction: Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) is a motor vehicle and production business. TMC is headquartered in Aichi Prefecture, Japan. TMC was founded August 28, 1937 by Kiichira Toyoda. Kiichira Toyoda’s son Akio Toyoda is the current President of the company. The company was originally a division of the Toyoda Automatic Loom Works Company founded by Kiichira’s father, Sakichi Toyoda. World War II halted many of the company’s initial manufacturing, but by 1950, Toyota reopened production facilities. In the 1960s and 1970s, TMC began rapidly exporting automobiles to foreign markets (The Editors of Encyclopædia Britannica, paragraph 4). TMC has continued to grow and has manufacturing plants and distribution channels setup in many countries. As of May 2014, TMC has a 397.05 billion yen, or 3.69 billion dollars, of capital. As of March 31, 2014, TMC has 338,875 employees. TMC has had a long standing reputation for quality. TMC’s quality philosophy is stated on their website, Toyota-Global.com (2005), “In June 1961, TMC decided to adopt the system of Total Quality Control (TQC) to modernize management operations. To realize TQC, all employees in Toyota were required to ‘regard the next processes (on the production line) as their customers and provide them...
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...years and today's locomotives can move a ton of freight more than 400 miles on a single gallon of fuel. With all the benefits regarding diesels, there is another source of inefficiency in the railroad that is often overlooked, the rail yard and switching terminals. The rail yards and switching terminal are traditionally the biggest culprits of air pollution and fuel inefficiency, presenting the greatest opportunities for further improvement. The Belt Railway Company of Chicago (BRC) is the largest intermediate switching terminal railroad in the United States. The BRC has 28 miles of mainline with more than 300 miles of switching tracks, allowing it to interchange with every railroad serving the Chicago rail hub. The Belt's Clearing Yards span a 5.5 mile distance among 786 acres, supporting more than 250 miles of track. The Belt Railway currently dispatches on a service-driven basis more than 8,400 rail cars per day. At Clearing Yard, employees are able to classify between 3,000 – 3,500 rail cars every 24 hours. The Belt Railway has been in operation since 1882 and has been through many rough times. Now the BRC is approaching another hurdle with an aging fleet of locomotives. As shown in Table 1 below, the BRC fleet consists of mother-slug units on the hump (SD38-40), single engines for switching (GP-38 and SW1500’s) and at times multiple units for...
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...INTRODUCTION 1.1 THE INDUSTRY Tyre industry consumes over 60% of the total rubber production with respect to Indian economy. But in actuality only just around 52% of the tyre is natural rubber. Remaining 48% consist of synthetic rubber, carbon, chemicals, etc. The origin of tyre industry in India dated back to 1926 when Dunlop Rubber Limited set up the first tyre factory in West Bengal. MRF followed the suit in 1946. Since then the Indian tyre industry has grown rapidly. Transportation industry and tyre industry go hand in hand as the two are interdependent. Transportation industry has experienced 10% growth rate year after year with an absolute level of 870 billion ton freight with an extensive road accounts for over 85% of all freight movement in India. The tyre industry in India is classified under 4 categories based on the year of commencement of production namely 1. 1st Generation Companies - which included Dunlop and Firestone. 2. 2nd Generation Companies - which included MRF, CEAT, Goodyear, and Premier. 3. 3rd Generation Companies - which included Apollo, Vibrant, Modi Rubber, and J.K.Tyres. 4. 4th Generation Companies - includes the companies started after 1970 and also which are yet to start production. Pneumatic Tyres are manufactured according to relatively standardized processes and machinery, in around 450 tire factories in the world. Over 1 billion tyres are manufactured annually, making the tyre industry the majority consumer of natural rubber...
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... HabiPLAST® Guides for roller chains and belts, extruded profiles and accessories Habasit - Solutions in motion Contents 2 Introduction Industries and applications Materials overview Materials technical data Notes Materials chemical resistance Guide profiles Roller chain guides Round belts guides V-belts guides Flat belts guides Metallic profiles for HabiPLAST guides Accessories for metallic profiles Extruded profiles for HabasitLINK and HabaCHAIN Machined profiles for chains C3200/C3210 Tapes in PE WS 01 Wearstrips kit Corner and straight tracks for HabaCHAIN® Notes Guides for HabaSYNC timing belts Services The Habasit Solution ® ® ® ® 3 4-5 6 7 8 9 - 11 12 13 - 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 - 48 49 50 51 52 - 55 56 57 - 61 62 63 Introduction HabiPLAST® Leader in production and sales of conveyor belts, year by year Habasit has developed a comprehensive knowledge in various sectors of production processes. To offer a more and more complete service, Habasit created the HabiPLAST® division, specialized in supplying of thermoplastic products for engineering and industrial applications like extruded profiles, machined profiles, sliding guides, wearstrips, plastic parts, ect. Industries and applications HabiPLAST® products are used in many industries like bottling, packaging, mechanics, chemistry, pharmaceutics, ceramics, glass, food, paper, etc. The new HabiPLAST® extruded profiles are the best complement for HabasitLINK® modular belts, HabaCHAIN® and HabaSYNC®. 3 Production...
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...[2] What is Welch’s objective in the series of initiatives he launched in the late 1980s and early 1990s? What is he trying to achieve in the round of changes he put in motion in that period? Is there a logic or rationale supporting the change process? We can say that Welch’s approach to business improvement has gone through three different cycles of learning: a) In the first cycle (from early 1980s to late 1980s) he focused GE on the elimination of variety in its portfolio of businesses by reducing the nonperforming businesses. He launched the “#1 or #2” approach. The central idea that guided GE’s business decisions was that those business areas that intended to compete in global markets must either be or become number-one or number-two in their market places. Those businesses that had no chance of attaining this goal were to be fixed, either sold or closed. During this stage almost 200 businesses were sold off and more than 370 acquisitions were achieved. The rationale behind managing the portfolio of businesses was to ensure that GE would make the best use of its capital for appropriate investments. To strengthen this measure, Welch eliminated the sector level, ensuring that all businesses reported directly to him, situation that would create more pressure and control on the businesses’ CEO to deliver results. b) In the second cycle (from late 1980s to mid-1990s), once GE had focused itself on targeted business areas, Welch focused the company on simplifying and...
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...Will Alternative Energy Technology bring the Greenback to Michigan’s Economy? By Sherry Underwood 28, November 2010 “The opportunity to create new Michigan jobs rests overwhelmingly with the clean energy, green-collar economy. We know the combination of these targeted efforts, coupled with the determination of Michigan’s workers’ to embrace the green economy, will help transform our state.” Michigan Green Jobs Report 2009 Occupations & Employment in the New Green Economy On Thursday November 18, 2010, Oakland Community Colleges Student LIFE and OCCSustainability groups hosted Stanley “Skip” Pruss at the Smith Theatre on the Orchard Ridge Campus as he presented his lecture Is Sustainability the Key to Michigan’s Economic Recovery?. Mr. Pruss was most recently the director of Michigan’s newly established Department of Energy, Labor and Economic Growth and Michigan’s Chief Energy Officer, and served as Governor Granholm’s Special Advisor for Renewable Energy and the Environment, as well as the Deputy Director of the Department of Environmental Quality. Mr. Pruss has just been appointed to advise United States Secretary of Energy, Dr. Steven Chu. His lecture, Is Sustainability the Key to Michigan’s Economic Recovery? was warmly received by both students and facility. During the address, Mr. Pruss cited issues other than greenhouse gas emission that threaten our world like, depletion of marine stock, soil erosion, ground water withdrawals, deforestation, and biodiversity loss...
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...Juli Kent Spiritual Activism 15 October 2013 Critical Reading Paper # 2 When I was finished reading the chapters in Maparyan’s book The Womanist Idea, I had to go back and re-read her definition of womanism. Summed up, she states: “…womanists are simultaneously concerned with rectifying the relationships between humans and other humans, humans and nature, and humans and the spirit world.” (pg. 35) In the required reading this week, Maparyan explores the activist work of three women, including her own heart wrenching story, and how it ties into the definition as mentioned above. In chapter 10, Speaking Truth Inside Power, Maparyan talks about Preg Govender’s work and how she was a trail blazer, promoting “the importance of inner and outer change” (pg. 253) for the relationships between humans and the love, compassion, and interconnectedness required to break down barriers of race, class, and gender in politics. Govender was an advocate for meditation and believed that it “deserves a more prominent and unapologetic place in our social change repertoire.” (pg. 251) I can agree that through meditation, real change can occur. In my own practice and research on the topic of meditation, I am finding more and more evidence of the changes meditation brings into my own personal life and I believe that when we are able to make personal transformations that bring about love, compassion, mindfulness and forgiveness, we can start making changes in the world around us. Also in the...
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...research has indicated that cost reduction strategies may promote the implementation of green strategies in global maritime logistics and the MPA. In this report, the utilisation as well as impacts of Lean and Six Sigma strategies will be analysed. In addition to this, the two strategies will be compared and contrasted. Lean and Six Sigma assist in working efficiently and reducing wastes. In recent times, IT has proven to be a vital tool in assisting organisations and global maritime logistics. This report will examine the relationship between IT and quality (TQM), efficiency (Lean) and collaboration and has shown assist them in their objectives and gain a competitive edge. This report has shown that IT has proven to be effective in helping organisations and global supply networks work and communicate among one another effectively and efficiently. 1.0 INTRODUCTION In this report, its main focus is on determining the most optimal cost reduction strategies in the implementation of green strategies in global maritime logistics such as the Singapore maritime logistics network or Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) and for this particular paper, the researcher has chosen two specific cost reduction strategies specifically: Six Sigma and Lean. Container ports the world over are increasing at an alarming rate and ports have to take into account of its efficiency, throughput and green performance. TASK 1 2.0 COST REDUCTION STRATEGIES TO ACHIEVE OBJECTIVES Six Sigma...
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...National Symbol of bangladesh: National Flag of bangladesh: The National Flag is in bottle green and rectangular in size, with a red circle on the body of the green. The background colour symbolizes the greenery of Bangladesh with its vitality and youthfulness, while the red disc represents the rising sun of independence after the dark night of a blood drenched struggle. Map of bangladesh: Introduction: Bangladesh is a unitary and sovereign republic known as the People’s Republic of Bangladesh. It is a country in South Asia | | Bangladesh's 147,570 sq km are situated on a fertile alluvial plain formed by large rivers, the Padma and the Jamuna. Its topography is flat with no great mountains or deserts, and its rivers are vast. Bangladesh is bordered by India to the north-east and west, Myanmar to the south-east, and the Bay of Bengal to the south. The state language of Bangladesh is Bangla. Symbols od Bangladesh: Background of bangladesh: The history of Bangladesh as a nation state began in 1971, when it seceded from Pakistan. Thishappened due to political exclusion, ethnic and linguistic discrimination and economic neglect by the politically dominant western wing, popular agitation grew and gave rise to a secular cultural nationalist movement, leading to the declaration of independence and Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971. Father of the Nation: Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was born in 17 March 1920 and died in 15 August 1975. He is also popularly...
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...Airmass : Meaning and Characteristics “An air mass may be defined as a large body of air whose physical properties, especially temperature, moisture content, and lapse rate, are more or less uniform horizontally for hundreds of kilometres.” According to A N Strahler and A. H. Strahler: “a body of air in which the upward gradients of temperature and moisture are fairly uniform over a large area is known as an air mass.” * An air mass may be so extensive that it may cover a large portion of a continent and it may be so thick in vertical dimension that it may vertically extend through the troposphere. An air mass is designated as cold air mass when its temperature is lower than the underlying surface while an air mass is termed warm air mass when its temperature is higher than the underlying surface. * The boundary between two different air masses is called front. Source Regions * The extensive areas over which air masses originate or form are called surface regions whose nature and properties largely determine the temperature and moisture characteristics of air masses. * An ideal source region of air mass must possess the following essential conditions: * There must be extensive and homogenous earth's surface so that it may possess uniform temperature and moisture conditions * There should not be convergence of air; rather there should be divergence of air flow so that the air may attain the physical properties of the region...
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...Henry Ford as Vice President and Chief Engineer of the company. This was only the beginning of what was to become a pioneering automaker whose prominence in innovations would transcend the auto making industry and transform Ford Motor into the leader it is today Initially, when Ford Motors first open its doors they were only producing three cars a day. In 1908 the company produced the famous Model T, a reliable and affordable vehicle for the mass market. Ford drove and raced this vehicle at every opportunity to prove how reliable it was. The success and the growing demand for the Model T was possibly the inspiration that led Ford to seek faster alternatives for mass production and in 1913 introduced the conveyor-belt assembly line. The incorporation of the conveyor-belt was possibly Ford’s greatest contribution to the automotive manufacturing industry. First implemented at the Highland Park, Michigan, the new technique allowed individual workers to stay in one place and perform the same task repeatedly on multiple vehicles that passed by them. This had a tremendous impact on production and Ford Company that went from doing 3 cars a day, to one every 93 minutes. By the end of that year they had perfected the techniques so well that production was about 1 million cars or I car produced every 24 seconds. Fords is by far one of the most successful companies not only in the United States but the world. Its leadership and commitment to continuously focus on innovation, design and ingenuity...
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...other retailers. This led to them creating a retail giant over the next forty years. In the early 1970’s Wal-Mart became the one of the first companies to use a centralized distribution center for their stores. When they started this practice they knew they would need a trucking fleet for years to come and made the decision to own their own private fleet. Along with great success comes turmoil and hard times. Wal-Mart’s came in the early 2000’s when there was a lot of public criticism about their business practices which included being sexist, strong-arming the little guys, and not having fair working conditions for their workers who were not allowed to join or create a union. There was also a growing movement within corporations around the world towards going green and having more sustainable business practices. On this note Lee Scott offered his famous speech in 2005 to the consumers, investors, and people around the world. His speech “21st Century Leadership” he laid out a three part plan for becoming a prominent player in sustainable business. These three parts included being supplied by 100% renewable energy, creating zero waste, and selling sustainable products in their stores. Currently, Wal-Mart owns a private trucking fleet that employs over 7,000 drivers. This is very crucial to their success because they rely on having the product available for the customer which requires a precise and effective transportation and logistics division. Along with the 7000...
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