Industrial Dashboard: Key Metrics for Effective Management
Dashboard: A synthesis of the most important information from an activity report, prepared for higher-level management to facilitate informed decisions and effective company leadership.
Accuracy, timeliness, and controlled synthesis are characteristics of a dashboard. The information must be reliable, timely, and concise. A frame of reference is essential for comparison of future performance. As Berger suggests, any measured aspect of an individual, department, or company should have a baseline for
Read MoreResident Care Center: Policies, Procedures, and Responsibilities
Planned Intervention
Planned intervention refers to the set of decisions regarding the various actions that will be developed within a center, either in the programming of activities at the care group level or individually on a personal level.
Internal Rules
Internal rules are outlined in the document that reflects the general rules of operation of the center, setting the terms of the relationship between residents and the center.
Resident Rights
- Access to schools and care services without discrimination
Project Management: Phases, Evaluation, and Key Concepts
Project Definition
A project is a set of human, financial, and material resources intended to generate a product or service.
Project Management Periods
- Traditional: Focuses on meeting requirements, not necessarily time and budget. Authoritarian leadership.
- Renaissance: Emphasizes meeting time and cost constraints in addition to requirements. Participative leadership.
- Modern: Prioritizes quality, business knowledge, and leadership skills.
Scale Method
Compliance with time, cost, and quality. Focus on customer
Read MoreTrade Secrets: Protection and Legal Aspects
Intellectual Property: Trade Secrets
- What is a Trade Secret?
- Any commercially valuable information
- Examples:
- Trick in production
- Customer list
- Business plan
- Asset to the company
- Protecting Trade Secrets
- You must make an effort to protect trade secrets
- Examples:
- Policy
- Procedures
- If someone else develops that information independently, that’s permissible
- Record Keeping for Trade Secrets
- Records should show:
- It’s your idea
- Identified trade secret
- Steps for protection
- General description
- Locking doors
- IT security
- Keeping
- General description
- Records should show:
Understanding Data, Information Systems, and Development Methodologies
Understanding Data and Information
1. Data and Information
- Data: Records of facts, events, or transactions. Data are the raw material used to obtain information.
- Information: Processed data that is useful to the recipient.
Having the right information is crucial for making the most appropriate decisions in each situation.
Systemic Approach to Problem Solving
2. Systemic Approach
The systemic approach begins by designing the entire system as a single black box, where only inputs and outputs are initially
Read MoreAdvanced Material Removal Processes & Quality Management
Advanced Material Removal Processes
Conventional Machining: Material removal through mechanical processes.
Electro-Discharge Machining (EDM): Material removal by controlled electrical discharges. Part of the electrode-discharge occurs within a dielectric fluid, causing erosion.
Benefits: Suitable for hard and refractory materials, complex geometries.
Disadvantages: Requires specialized drivers, slow speed, can modify the material’s microstructure.
Dielectric Types: Penetrating (oil) and non-penetrating
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