Scheduling is indeed a major issue in all manufacturing and project execution facilities world over. It is also
recognized that if scheduling is efficient and automated huge benefits could result as existing resource usage can
be maximized allowing dramatic increase in number of orders processed at the same time substantially reducing
cost of production while ensuring reliability in delivery on the committed date. No wonder scheduling is a hot
research topic and the market is flooded with scheduling systems of sorts. Still a truly efficient and automatic
scheduling system remains an elusive dream.
This white paper lists the six important reasons why a scheduling system fails in real-life situations. It then
describes how a new scheduling system called Talika PMS satisfies all the six critical requirements in detail with real
data supporting the claims from its first major installation.
This document describes the what-if analysis capabilities of the Talika PMS scheduling system. It allows shop floor managers to understand how changes like adding or removing work centers, jobs, or holidays would impact completion times for all existing orders. The simulator performs extensive what-if analysis independently of the scheduling engine. It displays simulation results concisely, showing the positive and negative impacts on job completion times. Managers can simulate changes like adding or dropping jobs, changing job priorities, duplicating or removing work centers, and modifying holidays or work center efficiencies. This allows informed decision making without disrupting real shop operations.
The document describes a complete production management system called Talika PMS that was created by Thomson Press (India) Limited to solve their scheduling problems. It can schedule and reschedule jobs in real-time as conditions change, maximize resource usage, and provide full visibility into future schedules. It integrates all areas of the manufacturing process and is said to increase throughput, reduce costs, allow quick delivery commitments while ensuring on-time delivery. Jobs are broken down into activities and the same representation is used for scheduling, costing, and managing order execution through the shop floor.
Effective Maintenance Planning and Scheduling is a requirement not an option if one wants to optimize the effectiveness and efficiency of their maintenance workforce. Yes, identifying the right work is key however without effective maintenance planning and scheduling work execution will not be as effective and efficient.
Maintenance Wrench time is directly impacted by the effectiveness of maintenance planning and scheduling (Wrench time is the amount of time a maintenance person has their "hands on tools". World Class ranges from 55-65%)
Maintaining operational efficiency in an expanding business is a challenge for many companies today. It is not immediately obvious that the inefficiencies are hurting the business. However, small mistakes that lead to time and money lost become more frequent as the business hires more employees and takes on more work. Use this methodology to work through those sticking points that are holding your operations back.
Does it annoy you that in spite of regularly performing Preventive Maintenance (PM) on your equipment it continues to breakdown? Some may call this insanity – Continuing to do the same thing over and over, expecting a different result. So what do you do? Maybe take a close look at your current PM Program.
There are known best practices which will not only enhance your PM program but also increase equipment reliability. Remember most work comes from PM and PdM and then it must be planned correctly, scheduled with production, executed to schedule and to specifications. If this occurs you will be seeing the results. "less breakdowns"
Check out this article and post your comments please.
This document outlines the top 10 reasons why maintenance planning is often ineffective. It discusses issues such as a lack of understanding around what effective maintenance planning looks like, not tracking key metrics like staff wrench time, a lack of defined processes for planning and scheduling, insufficient training of maintenance planners, and not establishing the right key performance indicators to measure maintenance planning effectiveness. The document emphasizes that achieving optimal reliability and costs requires adopting defined, proactive maintenance planning processes followed by committed leadership and all departments.
Preventive maintenance programs that rely solely on time-based tasks are often ineffective and result in high equipment failure rates. Research shows over 80% of failures are not related to age or use. To improve reliability, the author migrated to a proactive approach focusing on asset health monitoring to determine maintenance needs. This approach identifies specific failure modes and uses predictive technologies to catch issues early. The result is significantly reduced failures and improved reliability, availability, and cost savings. Sharing successes from pilot programs encourages management support to roll out the approach for all critical assets.
“My maintenance staff is highly trained and do not like using procedures.” If the statement is valid, and the cost of asset failure is not important to our operation, then your staff must have an unlimited and infallible memory – congratulations!
Did you know that the most complex equipment ever built was a nuclear submarine and that the first nuclear submarines experienced failures due to lack of effective procedures, thus ending in catastrophic failure?
If safety is number one in your organization, then repeatable, effective work procedures should be as well.
This document describes the what-if analysis capabilities of the Talika PMS scheduling system. It allows shop floor managers to understand how changes like adding or removing work centers, jobs, or holidays would impact completion times for all existing orders. The simulator performs extensive what-if analysis independently of the scheduling engine. It displays simulation results concisely, showing the positive and negative impacts on job completion times. Managers can simulate changes like adding or dropping jobs, changing job priorities, duplicating or removing work centers, and modifying holidays or work center efficiencies. This allows informed decision making without disrupting real shop operations.
The document describes a complete production management system called Talika PMS that was created by Thomson Press (India) Limited to solve their scheduling problems. It can schedule and reschedule jobs in real-time as conditions change, maximize resource usage, and provide full visibility into future schedules. It integrates all areas of the manufacturing process and is said to increase throughput, reduce costs, allow quick delivery commitments while ensuring on-time delivery. Jobs are broken down into activities and the same representation is used for scheduling, costing, and managing order execution through the shop floor.
Effective Maintenance Planning and Scheduling is a requirement not an option if one wants to optimize the effectiveness and efficiency of their maintenance workforce. Yes, identifying the right work is key however without effective maintenance planning and scheduling work execution will not be as effective and efficient.
Maintenance Wrench time is directly impacted by the effectiveness of maintenance planning and scheduling (Wrench time is the amount of time a maintenance person has their "hands on tools". World Class ranges from 55-65%)
Maintaining operational efficiency in an expanding business is a challenge for many companies today. It is not immediately obvious that the inefficiencies are hurting the business. However, small mistakes that lead to time and money lost become more frequent as the business hires more employees and takes on more work. Use this methodology to work through those sticking points that are holding your operations back.
Does it annoy you that in spite of regularly performing Preventive Maintenance (PM) on your equipment it continues to breakdown? Some may call this insanity – Continuing to do the same thing over and over, expecting a different result. So what do you do? Maybe take a close look at your current PM Program.
There are known best practices which will not only enhance your PM program but also increase equipment reliability. Remember most work comes from PM and PdM and then it must be planned correctly, scheduled with production, executed to schedule and to specifications. If this occurs you will be seeing the results. "less breakdowns"
Check out this article and post your comments please.
This document outlines the top 10 reasons why maintenance planning is often ineffective. It discusses issues such as a lack of understanding around what effective maintenance planning looks like, not tracking key metrics like staff wrench time, a lack of defined processes for planning and scheduling, insufficient training of maintenance planners, and not establishing the right key performance indicators to measure maintenance planning effectiveness. The document emphasizes that achieving optimal reliability and costs requires adopting defined, proactive maintenance planning processes followed by committed leadership and all departments.
Preventive maintenance programs that rely solely on time-based tasks are often ineffective and result in high equipment failure rates. Research shows over 80% of failures are not related to age or use. To improve reliability, the author migrated to a proactive approach focusing on asset health monitoring to determine maintenance needs. This approach identifies specific failure modes and uses predictive technologies to catch issues early. The result is significantly reduced failures and improved reliability, availability, and cost savings. Sharing successes from pilot programs encourages management support to roll out the approach for all critical assets.
“My maintenance staff is highly trained and do not like using procedures.” If the statement is valid, and the cost of asset failure is not important to our operation, then your staff must have an unlimited and infallible memory – congratulations!
Did you know that the most complex equipment ever built was a nuclear submarine and that the first nuclear submarines experienced failures due to lack of effective procedures, thus ending in catastrophic failure?
If safety is number one in your organization, then repeatable, effective work procedures should be as well.
The 5 Levels of Effective Maintenance Scheduling
Submitted by James Kovacevic; MMP, CMRP
Scheduling ensures the right maintenance is executed at the right time. But many organizations fail to schedule work that improves plant performance. Instead, the work is scheduled to last minute and is often
not the most important work, but the work of the person yelling the loudest.
In order to effectively schedule maintenance work, there needs to be a systematic approach which not only takes into account the needs of the maintenance department but that of the business. This fully
integrated schedule ensures the planned downtime is reduced while maximizing the amount of work which can be completed.
The 5 levels of scheduling enable the full integration of operations and maintenance schedules. Scheduling starts at the 52-week level and cascades into the 16-week, 4-week, 1-week and finally the daily scheduling. The scheduling process depends heavily upon a rigorous prioritization process. The prioritization criteria must be fully aligned with the business risks and agreed upon by the leadership team.
The benefits to the business of proper scheduling are many and include, reduced planned downtime, reduced overtime and reduced unplanned downtime.
The book provides a primer on the Theory of Constraints and how it can be applied to project scheduling and management. It shows how using concepts like identifying the critical chain of tasks, adding buffers, and focusing on bottlenecks can help projects stay on time and on budget compared to traditional PERT and Gantt techniques. It also discusses how to effectively manage vendors to protect against delays on the critical path.
This document discusses capacity planning and data center architecture. Capacity planning deals with accurately predicting future resource needs, which is challenging due to many unknown variables. Data center architecture focuses on preventing downtime, which can be costly. The document recommends following best practices for data center design, such as redundancy, and using capacity planning to guide resource predictions, though capacity planning cannot account for all uncertainties.
If your projects involve other companies doing most of the work, then this presentation can open the door to faster, better and less expensive projects. You don't have to spend more to get your project sooner. Critical Chain Project Management (CCPM) has worked wonders in many industries..but has not had much impact in sectors such as construction. We think we know why. Take a look ad let us know what you think www.profitableprojects.org
Critical Chain Project Management (CCPM) is an approach to project management that focuses on managing resource constraints. It differs from traditional critical path methods by accounting for implicit resource dependencies and inserting buffers to protect milestone dates from uncertainty. CCPM principles include eliminating safety times from tasks, focusing on meeting milestone dates over individual task dates, and prioritizing the throughput of constrained resources over local optimizations. Project buffers and feeding buffers are added to the schedule to absorb uncertainty while still meeting deadlines.
Kept up by Potential IT Disasters? Your Guide to Disaster Recovery as a Servi...VAST
There are many kinds of disaster that can shut down your information technology (IT) operations:
• natural disasters, like a hurricane
• power outages
• a hardware crash that corrupts data
• employees who accidentally or deliberately delete or modify data
• malware that tampers with, erases, or encrypts data so you can’t access it
• network outages due to problems at your telecom provider
Disasters happen, sometimes bringing down a single application, sometimes bringing down your entire data center. No matter how careful you are or how good your IT team is, eventually some event will shut down your applications when you really need them up and running. The Disaster Recovery Preparedness Council survey in 2014 found that 36 percent of businesses lost at least one critical application, virtual machine, or data file for a period of several hours, with 25 percent saying they’d lost a large part of their data center for a period of hours or days.
The costs of preparing for disaster can be high—at one extreme, companies maintain a secondary, standby data center with all the same equipment as at their primary site—but the consequences of not planning for disaster recovery (DR) can be even higher. The costs of downtime in 2016 ranged from a minimum of $926 per minute to a maximum of $17,244 per minute, with an average cost of close to $9,000 per minute of outage.
Those costs can completely cripple a business; Gartner found that only 6 percent of companies remain in business two years after losing data.
Creating an effective disaster recovery plan is a key step to ensuring business survival.
The document discusses using Critical Chain Project Management (CCPM) to reduce lead times in a multi-project environment through buffer management and enforcing global priorities. It covers the technical aspects of CCPM including fever charts, single priority systems, buffering and pipelining. The benefits of CCPM are listed as shorter lead times, optimal resource utilization, focused management attention, and synchronized efforts through self-organization around global priorities. The different types of buffers - project, feeding, resource and protective capacity - are defined and explained in detail along with how they are used.
This presentation was given by Gary Palmer on Wednesday 2nd April 2014. Airbus in Bristol very kindly hosted the event which was well attended by almost 80 of the local APM membership and project management community.
An introductory-level presentation to critical chain project management (CCPM), primarily aimed at those new to the subject.
Critical chain project management (CCPM) is fast emerging as a major step change in project management, dramatically improving project speed and predictability. Although currently relatively little-known in the UK, it has become well-established and highly successful in America, India and Japan, and is predicted to become a dominant methodology within the next few years.
CCPM changes many typical project management practices and behaviours, and by these changes removes the in-built inefficiencies in ‘traditional’ project management, enabling projects to run faster and with more effective protection against uncertainty, whilst providing much improved visibility of progress and monitoring both at the single project and multi-project (programme and portfolio) levels.
This presentation introduces the main principles of CCPM and compares and contrasts them with current project management practices, with an overview of CCPM’s history and development, use of the methods in programme and portfolio situations, current adoption in industry, and implementation considerations.
Critical Chain Project Management & Theory of ConstraintsAbhay Kumar
Critical Chain Project Management (CCPM) uses aggressive task estimates and buffers to eliminate wasted time from practices like multitasking, student syndrome, and Parkinson's law. It identifies the critical path and adds a project buffer at the end to protect the deadline. CCPM is based on the Theory of Constraints (TOC), which involves identifying, exploiting, subordinating, and elevating constraints. CCPM and TOC are applied in both waterfall and agile projects by aggressively estimating tasks, avoiding multitasking on the critical path, monitoring buffer consumption, and using TOC to resolve impediments.
Find ways to prevent Disaster from knocking on your company door! Make sure your plan is in place as we anticipate a weekend storm - sales@telehouse.com
10 Things to Consider in a Company MoveThe TNS Group
Prioritizing these 10 components of IT relocation will help to ensure a smooth move and efficient integration into your new space. Contact us today for more information on how we can partner to ensure a successful move.
The 5 Levels of Effective Maintenance Scheduling
Submitted by James Kovacevic; MMP, CMRP
Scheduling ensures the right maintenance is executed at the right time. But many organizations fail to schedule work that improves plant performance. Instead, the work is scheduled to last minute and is often
not the most important work, but the work of the person yelling the loudest.
In order to effectively schedule maintenance work, there needs to be a systematic approach which not only takes into account the needs of the maintenance department but that of the business. This fully
integrated schedule ensures the planned downtime is reduced while maximizing the amount of work which can be completed.
The 5 levels of scheduling enable the full integration of operations and maintenance schedules. Scheduling starts at the 52-week level and cascades into the 16-week, 4-week, 1-week and finally the daily scheduling. The scheduling process depends heavily upon a rigorous prioritization process. The prioritization criteria must be fully aligned with the business risks and agreed upon by the leadership team.
The benefits to the business of proper scheduling are many and include, reduced planned downtime, reduced overtime, and reduced unplanned downtime.
Critical Chain Project Management (CCPM) addresses problems with traditional scheduling methods by focusing on completing the critical chain of tasks rather than individual tasks. It moves scheduling safety from task levels to the project level and prevents multitasking by requiring resources to focus on one task until its completion. CCPM identifies the critical chain of dependent tasks and establishes buffers to protect the project schedule from uncertainties.
This document provides 16 ways to save time and money on preventive maintenance programs. It suggests that many PM programs are larger than needed and consume too many resources while still resulting in unexpected equipment failures. It recommends first considering predictive maintenance technologies before adding more PMs. Other tips include removing unnecessary PMs, questioning if PMs actually help productivity, getting data from PMs that can be trended over time, and ensuring PMs are completed within 10% of their scheduled due date. The goal of PM should be to detect small problems to plan repairs, not just prevent failures.
Mistakes during production processes can result in costly shutdowns, repairs, and inefficiencies. PITSolutions has developed software to reduce mistakes by providing all employees with instant access to procedures and training materials from any device. This allows employees to make more informed decisions and ensures all parties are aware of their roles and responsibilities during production. The software also provides management tools like automatic timestamps to monitor compliance and efficiency. Customers report the software has increased communication, reduced training costs, and helped prevent incidents and shutdowns.
Critical Chain Project Management (CCPM) is a methodology that improves project management through 3 key principles: 1) Buffer time is placed on the longest project path to protect the due date. 2) Projects are released based on constraint availability to reduce multitasking. 3) Execution priorities are driven by relative buffer consumption to focus on projects needing attention. CCPM has been successfully implemented by many companies resulting in reduced time to market, higher on-time delivery, more projects completed, and improved resource planning.
El documento habla sobre la seguridad física y del entorno en el área de seguridad de la información. Describe la importancia de establecer perímetros de seguridad física, controles de entrada, y protección de oficinas, despachos y recursos. También recomienda medidas de protección contra amenazas externas como incendios o inundaciones, y asegurar el equipamiento contra accesos no autorizados o fallas eléctricas.
Plataforma Política Torreón 2010 - 2013Chuy de León
Este documento presenta la plataforma política del municipio de Torreón para el periodo 2010-2013. Propone cinco ejes rectores: 1) Desarrollo económico sustentable; 2) Desarrollo humano; 3) Estado de derecho; 4) Gobierno eficiente y transparente; 5) Calidad y cobertura de servicios públicos municipales. Detalla objetivos y líneas de acción para cada eje, enfocándose en fomentar el empleo, mejorar servicios sociales, participación ciudadana, seguridad, y prestación de servic
The 5 Levels of Effective Maintenance Scheduling
Submitted by James Kovacevic; MMP, CMRP
Scheduling ensures the right maintenance is executed at the right time. But many organizations fail to schedule work that improves plant performance. Instead, the work is scheduled to last minute and is often
not the most important work, but the work of the person yelling the loudest.
In order to effectively schedule maintenance work, there needs to be a systematic approach which not only takes into account the needs of the maintenance department but that of the business. This fully
integrated schedule ensures the planned downtime is reduced while maximizing the amount of work which can be completed.
The 5 levels of scheduling enable the full integration of operations and maintenance schedules. Scheduling starts at the 52-week level and cascades into the 16-week, 4-week, 1-week and finally the daily scheduling. The scheduling process depends heavily upon a rigorous prioritization process. The prioritization criteria must be fully aligned with the business risks and agreed upon by the leadership team.
The benefits to the business of proper scheduling are many and include, reduced planned downtime, reduced overtime and reduced unplanned downtime.
The book provides a primer on the Theory of Constraints and how it can be applied to project scheduling and management. It shows how using concepts like identifying the critical chain of tasks, adding buffers, and focusing on bottlenecks can help projects stay on time and on budget compared to traditional PERT and Gantt techniques. It also discusses how to effectively manage vendors to protect against delays on the critical path.
This document discusses capacity planning and data center architecture. Capacity planning deals with accurately predicting future resource needs, which is challenging due to many unknown variables. Data center architecture focuses on preventing downtime, which can be costly. The document recommends following best practices for data center design, such as redundancy, and using capacity planning to guide resource predictions, though capacity planning cannot account for all uncertainties.
If your projects involve other companies doing most of the work, then this presentation can open the door to faster, better and less expensive projects. You don't have to spend more to get your project sooner. Critical Chain Project Management (CCPM) has worked wonders in many industries..but has not had much impact in sectors such as construction. We think we know why. Take a look ad let us know what you think www.profitableprojects.org
Critical Chain Project Management (CCPM) is an approach to project management that focuses on managing resource constraints. It differs from traditional critical path methods by accounting for implicit resource dependencies and inserting buffers to protect milestone dates from uncertainty. CCPM principles include eliminating safety times from tasks, focusing on meeting milestone dates over individual task dates, and prioritizing the throughput of constrained resources over local optimizations. Project buffers and feeding buffers are added to the schedule to absorb uncertainty while still meeting deadlines.
Kept up by Potential IT Disasters? Your Guide to Disaster Recovery as a Servi...VAST
There are many kinds of disaster that can shut down your information technology (IT) operations:
• natural disasters, like a hurricane
• power outages
• a hardware crash that corrupts data
• employees who accidentally or deliberately delete or modify data
• malware that tampers with, erases, or encrypts data so you can’t access it
• network outages due to problems at your telecom provider
Disasters happen, sometimes bringing down a single application, sometimes bringing down your entire data center. No matter how careful you are or how good your IT team is, eventually some event will shut down your applications when you really need them up and running. The Disaster Recovery Preparedness Council survey in 2014 found that 36 percent of businesses lost at least one critical application, virtual machine, or data file for a period of several hours, with 25 percent saying they’d lost a large part of their data center for a period of hours or days.
The costs of preparing for disaster can be high—at one extreme, companies maintain a secondary, standby data center with all the same equipment as at their primary site—but the consequences of not planning for disaster recovery (DR) can be even higher. The costs of downtime in 2016 ranged from a minimum of $926 per minute to a maximum of $17,244 per minute, with an average cost of close to $9,000 per minute of outage.
Those costs can completely cripple a business; Gartner found that only 6 percent of companies remain in business two years after losing data.
Creating an effective disaster recovery plan is a key step to ensuring business survival.
The document discusses using Critical Chain Project Management (CCPM) to reduce lead times in a multi-project environment through buffer management and enforcing global priorities. It covers the technical aspects of CCPM including fever charts, single priority systems, buffering and pipelining. The benefits of CCPM are listed as shorter lead times, optimal resource utilization, focused management attention, and synchronized efforts through self-organization around global priorities. The different types of buffers - project, feeding, resource and protective capacity - are defined and explained in detail along with how they are used.
This presentation was given by Gary Palmer on Wednesday 2nd April 2014. Airbus in Bristol very kindly hosted the event which was well attended by almost 80 of the local APM membership and project management community.
An introductory-level presentation to critical chain project management (CCPM), primarily aimed at those new to the subject.
Critical chain project management (CCPM) is fast emerging as a major step change in project management, dramatically improving project speed and predictability. Although currently relatively little-known in the UK, it has become well-established and highly successful in America, India and Japan, and is predicted to become a dominant methodology within the next few years.
CCPM changes many typical project management practices and behaviours, and by these changes removes the in-built inefficiencies in ‘traditional’ project management, enabling projects to run faster and with more effective protection against uncertainty, whilst providing much improved visibility of progress and monitoring both at the single project and multi-project (programme and portfolio) levels.
This presentation introduces the main principles of CCPM and compares and contrasts them with current project management practices, with an overview of CCPM’s history and development, use of the methods in programme and portfolio situations, current adoption in industry, and implementation considerations.
Critical Chain Project Management & Theory of ConstraintsAbhay Kumar
Critical Chain Project Management (CCPM) uses aggressive task estimates and buffers to eliminate wasted time from practices like multitasking, student syndrome, and Parkinson's law. It identifies the critical path and adds a project buffer at the end to protect the deadline. CCPM is based on the Theory of Constraints (TOC), which involves identifying, exploiting, subordinating, and elevating constraints. CCPM and TOC are applied in both waterfall and agile projects by aggressively estimating tasks, avoiding multitasking on the critical path, monitoring buffer consumption, and using TOC to resolve impediments.
Find ways to prevent Disaster from knocking on your company door! Make sure your plan is in place as we anticipate a weekend storm - sales@telehouse.com
10 Things to Consider in a Company MoveThe TNS Group
Prioritizing these 10 components of IT relocation will help to ensure a smooth move and efficient integration into your new space. Contact us today for more information on how we can partner to ensure a successful move.
The 5 Levels of Effective Maintenance Scheduling
Submitted by James Kovacevic; MMP, CMRP
Scheduling ensures the right maintenance is executed at the right time. But many organizations fail to schedule work that improves plant performance. Instead, the work is scheduled to last minute and is often
not the most important work, but the work of the person yelling the loudest.
In order to effectively schedule maintenance work, there needs to be a systematic approach which not only takes into account the needs of the maintenance department but that of the business. This fully
integrated schedule ensures the planned downtime is reduced while maximizing the amount of work which can be completed.
The 5 levels of scheduling enable the full integration of operations and maintenance schedules. Scheduling starts at the 52-week level and cascades into the 16-week, 4-week, 1-week and finally the daily scheduling. The scheduling process depends heavily upon a rigorous prioritization process. The prioritization criteria must be fully aligned with the business risks and agreed upon by the leadership team.
The benefits to the business of proper scheduling are many and include, reduced planned downtime, reduced overtime, and reduced unplanned downtime.
Critical Chain Project Management (CCPM) addresses problems with traditional scheduling methods by focusing on completing the critical chain of tasks rather than individual tasks. It moves scheduling safety from task levels to the project level and prevents multitasking by requiring resources to focus on one task until its completion. CCPM identifies the critical chain of dependent tasks and establishes buffers to protect the project schedule from uncertainties.
This document provides 16 ways to save time and money on preventive maintenance programs. It suggests that many PM programs are larger than needed and consume too many resources while still resulting in unexpected equipment failures. It recommends first considering predictive maintenance technologies before adding more PMs. Other tips include removing unnecessary PMs, questioning if PMs actually help productivity, getting data from PMs that can be trended over time, and ensuring PMs are completed within 10% of their scheduled due date. The goal of PM should be to detect small problems to plan repairs, not just prevent failures.
Mistakes during production processes can result in costly shutdowns, repairs, and inefficiencies. PITSolutions has developed software to reduce mistakes by providing all employees with instant access to procedures and training materials from any device. This allows employees to make more informed decisions and ensures all parties are aware of their roles and responsibilities during production. The software also provides management tools like automatic timestamps to monitor compliance and efficiency. Customers report the software has increased communication, reduced training costs, and helped prevent incidents and shutdowns.
Critical Chain Project Management (CCPM) is a methodology that improves project management through 3 key principles: 1) Buffer time is placed on the longest project path to protect the due date. 2) Projects are released based on constraint availability to reduce multitasking. 3) Execution priorities are driven by relative buffer consumption to focus on projects needing attention. CCPM has been successfully implemented by many companies resulting in reduced time to market, higher on-time delivery, more projects completed, and improved resource planning.
El documento habla sobre la seguridad física y del entorno en el área de seguridad de la información. Describe la importancia de establecer perímetros de seguridad física, controles de entrada, y protección de oficinas, despachos y recursos. También recomienda medidas de protección contra amenazas externas como incendios o inundaciones, y asegurar el equipamiento contra accesos no autorizados o fallas eléctricas.
Plataforma Política Torreón 2010 - 2013Chuy de León
Este documento presenta la plataforma política del municipio de Torreón para el periodo 2010-2013. Propone cinco ejes rectores: 1) Desarrollo económico sustentable; 2) Desarrollo humano; 3) Estado de derecho; 4) Gobierno eficiente y transparente; 5) Calidad y cobertura de servicios públicos municipales. Detalla objetivos y líneas de acción para cada eje, enfocándose en fomentar el empleo, mejorar servicios sociales, participación ciudadana, seguridad, y prestación de servic
Este documento describe diferentes tipos de proyectos que los jóvenes pueden realizar como parte de su educación secundaria, incluyendo proyectos científicos, tecnológicos y ciudadanos. Explica las estrategias metodológicas para elaborar estos proyectos, como experiencias desencadenantes, trabajos cortos y fértiles, y fichas autocorrectivas. Además, presenta ejemplos de bloques temáticos y proyectos obligatorios relacionados con la biodiversidad, nutrición y salud.
The document discusses Hofstede's five cultural dimensions model, which identifies and defines the following dimensions that can be used to analyze and compare cultures:
1. Power Distance Index (PDI) - The degree of inequality within a society.
2. Individualism vs Collectivism - The relationship between individuals and groups.
3. Masculinity vs Femininity - The distribution of gender roles within a culture.
4. Uncertainty Avoidance Index (UAI) - A society's tolerance for uncertainty and ambiguity.
5. Long-Term vs Short-Term Orientation - The importance placed on virtues versus truth; long-term cultures value thrift and perseverance.
This document provides an overview of an innovative real-time production management system called Talika PMS. The system aims to address key issues with conventional scheduling systems, including their inability to dynamically reschedule in response to real-time events, lack of feedback mechanisms, and impractical assumptions about static order loads and scheduling across shifts. Talika PMS utilizes a distributed architecture with a real-time scheduling engine that communicates with different types of shop floor consoles. The scheduling engine works continuously to maximize resource utilization and minimize job cycle times by automatically rescheduling tasks each minute based on operator feedback. The document outlines how the system works from job definition and scheduling to real-time task allotment and completion tracking.
The document describes a production management system called Talika PMS that was created to solve scheduling problems for complex manufacturing environments. It automatically schedules tasks and resources in real-time to maximize throughput, reduce costs, and ensure on-time delivery. The system breaks down orders into individual tasks, schedules and reschedules them continuously based on real-time feedback to integrate the entire manufacturing process from order entry to delivery.
The International Journal of Engineering & Science is aimed at providing a platform for researchers, engineers, scientists, or educators to publish their original research results, to exchange new ideas, to disseminate information in innovative designs, engineering experiences and technological skills. It is also the Journal's objective to promote engineering and technology education. All papers submitted to the Journal will be blind peer-reviewed. Only original articles will be published.
Refinery turnarounds require careful planning and coordination to minimize downtime and costs. However, planning is complex due to varying data sources, workforce scheduling challenges, and difficulties adapting plans during execution. Current IT systems are inadequate as they provide only static plans. IFS introduces an integrated solution with IFS Operational Planning Board and IFS Applications to bridge planning and execution. This provides dynamic replanning capabilities, aids workforce coordination, and increases turnaround efficiency through a single integrated view of the process.
Refinery turnarounds require careful planning and coordination to minimize downtime and costs. However, planning is complex due to varying data sources, workforce scheduling challenges, and difficulties adapting plans during execution. Current IT systems are inadequate as they provide only static plans. IFS introduces an integrated solution with IFS Operational Planning Board and IFS Applications to bridge planning and execution. This provides dynamic replanning capabilities, aids workforce coordination, and increases turnaround efficiency through a single point of truth.
Refinery turnarounds require careful planning and coordination to minimize downtime and costs. However, planning is complex due to varying data sources, workforce scheduling challenges, and difficulties adapting plans during execution. Current IT systems are inadequate as they provide only static plans. IFS introduces an integrated solution with IFS Operational Planning Board and IFS Applications to bridge planning and execution. This provides dynamic replanning capabilities, aids workforce coordination, and increases turnaround efficiency through a single integrated view of the process.
This document outlines 10 common time wasters for construction companies and provides suggestions on how to address them through technology solutions. The time wasters include estimators doing manual takeoffs, lack of job cost visibility, challenges with field time reporting, manual handling of compliance documents, filling out forms like AIA by hand, struggles with government payroll reporting, managing complex union payroll, chasing down invoice approvals, manual entry of customer payments, and dealing with paper-based work orders. The document recommends construction-specific software and mobile technologies to automate processes, streamline compliance, integrate estimating and job cost tracking, enable electronic forms and approvals, automate payroll reporting, and facilitate paperless operations. Addressing these inefficiencies through technology can
This document discusses maintenance management policies and implementing maintenance schedules to improve productivity. It proposes a model for a maintenance policy that includes establishing maintenance schedules, determining job priorities, and coordinating work. The model emphasizes balancing preventative and breakdown maintenance based on equipment usage and costs. Implementing formal scheduling, priority systems, and coordinating unexpected work can improve maintenance efficiency and reduce costs.
This document provides a summary of recent literature related to scheduling problems, with a focus on problems involving multiple parallel machines or devices. It discusses surveys and articles on scheduling problems in various contexts like industry, cloud/edge computing, and mobile networks. The document aims to give a comprehensive overview of the different approaches and algorithms used to address scheduling problems in emerging fields driven by technological progress, such as modern factories, mobile networks, cloud computing, and fog/edge computing. It observes that heuristics and approximate algorithms are increasingly important for scheduling problems due to the complexity introduced by uncertainties.
Scheduling involves arranging workloads and allocating resources like machinery, employees, and materials. There are two main types of scheduling: operations scheduling, which assigns jobs and employees to time periods, and flow-shop scheduling for high-volume systems, where identical products flow through standardized processes. For low-volume job shops, scheduling is more complex due to custom orders and uncertain job requirements. Key considerations for both include sequencing jobs effectively and balancing workloads across workstations.
Dynamic Process Execution (DPE): Revolutionizing Production Environments! 🌐
Exciting times for manufacturing industries as #DynamicProcessExecution paves the way for more agile, flexible, and sustainable production methods. Introducing an intelligent layer atop existing systems, DPE promises unparalleled real-time process execution.
🔍What is DPE?
It's the next-gen enterprise software that integrates seamlessly with Connected Worker Systems or MES, ensuring enhanced flexibility & prompt process execution.
⚙️Why is it a game-changer for manufacturers?
Manufacturing companies grapple with:
📈Volatile demands necessitating swift response to shifting requirements.
🧩Fragile supply chains, often plagued by missing components.
👥Scarcity of skilled labor.
DPE offers a solution by dissecting static production plans into bite-sized segments. These segments, governed by a specific set of business rules, smoothly transition into one another through process automation.
✨Adaptive Production in Real-Time
The beauty of DPE lies in its adaptability. Should a work process face delays or if things go awry, DPE steps in to recalibrate the process sequence automatically.
Envision a future where production plans are dynamic, and manufacturers possess the ability to pivot as per evolving demands. That's the promise of Dynamic Process Execution.
Welcome to the future of manufacturing! 🏭
#Manufacturing #Innovation #DynamicProcessExecution #AgileProduction #SustainableManufacturing
This document describes the development of a strategic approach for making accurate decisions during unplanned telecom service outages. It discusses a case study where an upgrade to a core billing system led to an unexpected outage impacting recharge services. Key learnings included the need for cross-functional information sharing and predefined delay thresholds to speed decision making. The developed approach establishes standard procedures to minimize revenue loss and ensure the best decision is made quickly during any telecom service outage.
This document discusses developing a strategic approach for making accurate decisions after unplanned service outages in telecom operations. It notes that while standard operating procedures exist, outages can still occur. The author formed a team to define an effective action plan for outages. Through a case study and analysis of activity phases where issues could arise, the team identified key factors like impact on revenue, technical insights, and costs. The goal is to establish a common reference approach to help stakeholders make the best decision with the least cost to business when unexpected outages disrupt planned activities in telecom networks.
Five common sense time management mistakes in project accounting — and tips t...williamsjohnseoexperts
The document discusses five common mistakes made in project accounting and time management. [1] It argues that tracking time is important for measuring productivity and costs. [2] It says that any system will not work and an easy-to-use system is needed for accurate tracking. [3] It notes the importance of tracking all time and expenses, even those not directly related to projects. [4] It emphasizes making systems simple to use but still robust. [5] Finally, it stresses the importance of consistently reviewing and acting on the tracked data.
Production planning and control (PPC) involves organizing and planning the manufacturing process. It includes planning routing, scheduling, dispatching, inspection, and coordination of materials, machines, tools, and operating times. The goal is to organize supply and movement of materials, labor, and machines to achieve desired manufacturing results in terms of quality, quantity, time, and place. PPC benefits small businesses by optimizing capacity utilization, controlling inventory, reducing production time, and ensuring quality. Key steps in PPC include production planning, routing, scheduling, loading, dispatching, follow up, inspection, and corrective measures. Effective PPC contributes to time, quality, and cost parameters of entrepreneurial success.
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When you use a project management system to manage processes, you eliminate all the benefits that can be derived from an appropriate process management tool - and vice versa. The solution is a unified platform that provides both project and process functionality.
This document discusses key elements of scheduling:
1. It outlines the objectives of scheduling such as maximizing throughput, being predictable, minimizing overhead, balancing resource use, and enforcing priorities.
2. It describes the main elements of scheduling including processors (workers), tasks (units of work), precedence relations (order tasks must be completed), and processing times (amount of time to complete each task).
3. It provides examples of processors, tasks, precedence relations between tasks, and how processing times are estimated for scheduling production.
Planners and schedulers play an important role in optimizing asset utilization and uptime through effective maintenance work planning and scheduling. The document discusses several best practices for planning and scheduling including developing job planning steps, work plans, standard maintenance procedures, ensuring accurate bills of materials, implementing 5S practices, and kitting of planned parts to improve maintenance productivity and asset reliability. Effective planning and scheduling can increase effective maintenance time from an average of 2.5 hours per day to over 45-55% of the work day.
BP Logix Whitepaper: Adding the Dimension of Time to BPMBP Logix
Time is a critical element of the planning, oversight, and improvement of business processes. However BPM solutions have traditionally focused on other aspects of the BPM challenge, such as quality and governance.
How mining leaders can take charge to improve safety, productivity and reduce...Hendrik Lourens
Variation in mining is – and will always be – more pronounced than in other industries such as automotive and
manufacturing. Because of physical constraints in mining, the actions of any mining department can affect the
work of all others. This creates interdependence, coordination and trust problems, which multiply the negative
impact of variation on throughput.
It is possible to quickly (within 3-5 months) improve output, productivity and safety when we adjust our
thinking and actions to harness and better manage variation. We have seen clients dramatically improve their
productivity (typically more than 20 per cent but substantially bigger increases have been observed) and
become safer work environments by using software and holistic management practices. These make work
visible and change the focus to be forward-looking instead of analysing the past. Execution and planning
become properly integrated and much more effective.
While these practices are innovative from a technical aspect, they succeed because they provide frontline
leaders and workers the opportunity to build a community of trust and coordinate along with a unity of
purpose.
Successful workers and frontline leaders who experience mastery, autonomy and purpose become highly
engaged and deliver even better results. It is easy to lead well in such an environment. Employees, managers
and executives experience lowered levels of stress and find joy in their work environment again. This is what
has been missing in mining for many years.
Executives, after implementing the actions described often comment along the following lines ‘…I am happy
with the improved financial performance in such a short time, but I am even happier with the kind of
organisation we have become. I see teamwork and increased motivation everywhere.’
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Lambda, Elastic Beanstalk, Lightsail, Amplify, S3 (and more!) can each host websites + APIs. But which one should we choose?
Which one is cheapest? Which one is fastest? Which one will scale to meet our needs?
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In the realm of cybersecurity, offensive security practices act as a critical shield. By simulating real-world attacks in a controlled environment, these techniques expose vulnerabilities before malicious actors can exploit them. This proactive approach allows manufacturers to identify and fix weaknesses, significantly enhancing system security.
This presentation delves into the development of a system designed to mimic Galileo's Open Service signal using software-defined radio (SDR) technology. We'll begin with a foundational overview of both Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) and the intricacies of digital signal processing.
The presentation culminates in a live demonstration. We'll showcase the manipulation of Galileo's Open Service pilot signal, simulating an attack on various software and hardware systems. This practical demonstration serves to highlight the potential consequences of unaddressed vulnerabilities, emphasizing the importance of offensive security practices in safeguarding critical infrastructure.
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Chris Jones, Director of Product Management at BrainChip , presents the “Temporal Event Neural Networks: A More Efficient Alternative to the Transformer” tutorial at the May 2024 Embedded Vision Summit.
The expansion of AI services necessitates enhanced computational capabilities on edge devices. Temporal Event Neural Networks (TENNs), developed by BrainChip, represent a novel and highly efficient state-space network. TENNs demonstrate exceptional proficiency in handling multi-dimensional streaming data, facilitating advancements in object detection, action recognition, speech enhancement and language model/sequence generation. Through the utilization of polynomial-based continuous convolutions, TENNs streamline models, expedite training processes and significantly diminish memory requirements, achieving notable reductions of up to 50x in parameters and 5,000x in energy consumption compared to prevailing methodologies like transformers.
Integration with BrainChip’s Akida neuromorphic hardware IP further enhances TENNs’ capabilities, enabling the realization of highly capable, portable and passively cooled edge devices. This presentation delves into the technical innovations underlying TENNs, presents real-world benchmarks, and elucidates how this cutting-edge approach is positioned to revolutionize edge AI across diverse applications.
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Driving Business Innovation: Latest Generative AI Advancements & Success StorySafe Software
Are you ready to revolutionize how you handle data? Join us for a webinar where we’ll bring you up to speed with the latest advancements in Generative AI technology and discover how leveraging FME with tools from giants like Google Gemini, Amazon, and Microsoft OpenAI can supercharge your workflow efficiency.
During the hour, we’ll take you through:
Guest Speaker Segment with Hannah Barrington: Dive into the world of dynamic real estate marketing with Hannah, the Marketing Manager at Workspace Group. Hear firsthand how their team generates engaging descriptions for thousands of office units by integrating diverse data sources—from PDF floorplans to web pages—using FME transformers, like OpenAIVisionConnector and AnthropicVisionConnector. This use case will show you how GenAI can streamline content creation for marketing across the board.
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Custom AI Models: Discover how to leverage FME to build personalized AI models using your data. Whether it’s populating a model with local data for added security or integrating public AI tools, find out how FME facilitates a versatile and secure approach to AI.
We’ll wrap up with a live Q&A session where you can engage with our experts on your specific use cases, and learn more about optimizing your data workflows with AI.
This webinar is ideal for professionals seeking to harness the power of AI within their data management systems while ensuring high levels of customization and security. Whether you're a novice or an expert, gain actionable insights and strategies to elevate your data processes. Join us to see how FME and AI can revolutionize how you work with data!
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In 2024, we are witnessing an explosion of new DeFi projects and protocols, each pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in finance.
In summary, DeFi in 2024 is not just a trend; it’s a revolution that democratizes finance, enhances security and transparency, and fosters continuous innovation. As we proceed through this presentation, we'll explore the various components and services of DeFi in detail, shedding light on how they are transforming the financial landscape.
At Intelisync, we specialize in providing comprehensive DeFi development services tailored to meet the unique needs of our clients. From smart contract development to dApp creation and security audits, we ensure that your DeFi project is built with innovation, security, and scalability in mind. Trust Intelisync to guide you through the intricate landscape of decentralized finance and unlock the full potential of blockchain technology.
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Monitoring and Managing Anomaly Detection on OpenShift
Overview
Dive into the world of anomaly detection on edge devices with our comprehensive hands-on tutorial. This SlideShare presentation will guide you through the entire process, from data collection and model training to edge deployment and real-time monitoring. Perfect for those looking to implement robust anomaly detection systems on resource-constrained IoT/edge devices.
Key Topics Covered
1. Introduction to Anomaly Detection
- Understand the fundamentals of anomaly detection and its importance in identifying unusual behavior or failures in systems.
2. Understanding Edge (IoT)
- Learn about edge computing and IoT, and how they enable real-time data processing and decision-making at the source.
3. What is ArgoCD?
- Discover ArgoCD, a declarative, GitOps continuous delivery tool for Kubernetes, and its role in deploying applications on edge devices.
4. Deployment Using ArgoCD for Edge Devices
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5. Introduction to Apache Kafka and S3
- Explore Apache Kafka for real-time data streaming and Amazon S3 for scalable storage solutions.
6. Viewing Kafka Messages in the Data Lake
- Learn how to view and analyze Kafka messages stored in a data lake for better insights.
7. What is Prometheus?
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8. Monitoring Application Metrics with Prometheus
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9. What is Camel K?
- Introduction to Camel K, a lightweight integration framework built on Apache Camel, designed for Kubernetes.
10. Configuring Camel K Integrations for Data Pipelines
- Learn how to configure Camel K for seamless data pipeline integrations in your anomaly detection workflow.
11. What is a Jupyter Notebook?
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12. Jupyter Notebooks with Code Examples
- Hands-on examples and code snippets in Jupyter Notebooks to help you implement and test anomaly detection models.
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2. Which barriers stand in the way of AI adoption.
3. How data quality and governance form the backbone of AI.
4. Organizational processes and structures that may inhibit effective AI adoption.
6. Ideas and approaches to help build your organization's AI strategy.