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Part I: A new methodical approach to increase productivity in production-logistical processes
No full textThe introduced methodical approach connects Value Stream Mapping (VSM) and Methods-Time Measurement (MTM) and offers new distinct advantages to reduce lead time and increase productivity based on lean principles and standardised processes. The mutually aligned design and improvement of assembly and (production) logistic processes takes either the workplaces, their surroundings and the supply areas as well as the overall value chain into account. The identification and exploitation of productivity potentials is realised by the joint application of VSM and MTM focussing the (work) methods, the performance and the utilisation of the processes (the dimensions of productivity).
Principles, benefits and the procedure of application are described in the paper
Part II: A new methodical approach to increase productivity in production-logistical processes
No full textThe introduced methodical approach connects Value
Stream Mapping (VSM) and Methods-Time Measurement
(MTM) and offers new distinct advantages to reduce lead
time and increase productivity based on lean principles
and standardised processes. The mutually aligned design
and improvement of assembly and (production) logistic
processes takes either the workplaces, their surroundings
and the supply areas as well as the overall value chain
into account. The identification and exploitation of productivity
potentials is realised by the joint application of
VSM and MTM focussing the (work) methods, the performance
and the utilisation of the processes (the dimensions
of productivity).
Principles, benefits and the procedure of application are
described in the paper
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Quality management systems and maturity models with a case study in a small consulting firm
No full textDer Autor arbeitete zur Zeit der Entstehung dieser Arbeit in einem kleinen Dienstleistungsbetrieb der Beratungsbranche. In dieser Zeit sind folgende Fragen aufgetreten: Wie steht es um das Qualitätsmanagement des Betriebes? Was kann oder sollte verbessert werden? Wofür ist es sinnvoll Ressourcen einzusetzen? Diese Fragen beantwortet diese Arbeit.Zu Beginn werden die wichtigsten Begriffe zum Thema Qualität erläutert.Es gibt nicht die einzig richtige Definition dazu. Qualität von Dienstleistungen wird meist nur sehr subjektiv wahrgenommen. Zur weiteren Beantwortung der oben gestellten Fragen werden in der Arbeit die wichtigsten und aktuellen Konzepte vorgestellt. Systematisches Qualitätsmanagement ist nicht nur in groÿen Betrieben von Bedeutung. Es nimmt dort häufig einen anderen Stellenwert als in kleinen Unternehmen ein. Gute kleine Unternehmen arbeiten mit einem auf sie zugeschnittenen Qualitätsmanagement.Auf Basis der vorgestellten Konzepte und der beschriebenen Unternehmung wird ein Konzept ausgewählt, dass am besten die Anforderung des Unternehmens berücksichtigt.Das ausgewählte Modell ist das der "European Foundation for Quality Management", EFQM. Nach dem Modell der EFQM wird eine Selbstbewertung mit folgenden Zielen durchgeführt:- Aufdecken von Verbesserungspotentialen.- Reproduzierbarkeit und Vergleichbarkeit mit einer neuen Selbstbewertung in ein bis zwei Jahren.- Erfahrung über den Entwicklungsstand des Unternehmens und dessen Reife gewinnen.Als wesentliches Ergebnis wird festgehalten, dass das weit entwickelte Unternehmen die meisten Entwicklungsmöglichkeiten in der Schaffung eines Organisations- und Führungshandbuches und in der quantitativen Messung der Ergebnisse hat. Die Stärken liegen im Bereich der Organisation, Mitarbeiter und Kommunikation.Die angewendeten Methoden sind Literaturrecherche und empirische Forschung auf Basis von Vergleichen unter Berücksichtigung der Rahmenbedingungen. Ein qualitatives Interview des Geschäftsführers zur Erfüllung der Kriterien nach EFQM wurde ebenso geführt.During the date of origin of this work, the author was working in small-sized advisory services. During this time some questions were asked. What is the quality-management about? What could or should be done to improve it? Where could the resources be well spent? In the beginning, the most important terms and definitions are illustrated. Often quality is subjectively experienced, especially services. To answer these questions, the mostly actual concepts and models to quality-management are introduced. Systematic qualitymanagement is not only reasonable in big companies, but there it gets more attention.Good, small business companies also work with a custom-built quality-management.Based on the introduced concepts and the described company, one concept is selected.This concept considers mostly the needs of the business.The chosen model is from the "European Foundation for Quality Management", EFQM.Based on this concept, a self-evaluation with the following aims take place:- Uncover room for improvement - Repeatability and comparability with a new self-evaluation in the next one or two years - Get to know the stage of development and maturity of the business As a most recent result, the business has its development potential in creating an organisation manual, a management manual and by making more quantitative measures. The strengths of the company are organisation, communication and the staff.The methods used to build this document are literature research and empirical methods based on and compared under consideration of the general conditions. An interview with the executive about the implementation of the criteria of the concept of the EFQM has also been done
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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