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		<title>Acceptance Sampling and its Types</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Acceptance sampling is a procedure used for sentencing incoming batches. The most widely used plans are given by the Military Standard tables, which were developed during World War II.
This article provides information about types of acceptance sampling.
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		<title>Acceptance Sampling, Lot Acceptance Sampling</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Feb 2009 11:59:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Acceptance sampling is an important field of statistical quality control that was popularized by Dodge and Romig and originally applied by the U.S. military to the testing of bullets during World War II. If every bullet was tested in advance, no bullets would be left to ship. If, on the other hand, none were tested, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Acceptance Sampling: LTPD and AQL</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Feb 2009 11:57:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Acceptance sampling is an important aspect of statistical quality control. It originated back in World War II when the military had to determine which batches of ammunition to accept and which ones to reject. They knew that they couldn&#8217;t test every bullet to determine if it will do its job in the field. On the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Process Control Charts</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Feb 2009 11:53:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the most important actions that can help maintain the quality of any good or service is to collect relevant data consistently over time, plot it, and examine the plots carefully. All statistical process control charts plot data (or a statistic calculated from data) versus time, with control limits designed to alert the analyst [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Process Control Charts, Shewhart Chart, Process Behaviour Chart</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Feb 2009 11:47:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In statistical process control, the control chart, also known as the &#8216;Shewhart chart&#8217; or &#8216;process-behaviour chart&#8216; is a tool to determine whether a manufacturing or business process is in a state of statistical control or not. If the chart indicates that the process being monitored is not in control, the pattern it reveals can help [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Value Engineering, Value Analysis</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Feb 2009 11:45:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Value Analysis-Value Engineering (VA-VE) is over half a century old! The concept evolved, during the ‘40s, as a ‘creative problem-solving system, implemented by the use of a specific set of techniques, a body of knowledge and a group of learned skills’.
The practice of VA-VE Team Approach spread ‘like wild fire’ and by the ‘70s, emerged [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Value Engineering, Main Steps</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Feb 2009 11:43:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Value Engineering is a conscious and explicit set of disciplined procedures designed to seek out optimum value for both initial and long-term investment. First utilized in the manufacturing industry during World War II, it has been widely used in the construction industry for many years.
Value Engineering (VE) is not a design/peer review or a cost-cutting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Maintenance Department Functions</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Feb 2009 11:40:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mission of maintenance department - To repair, service, and maintain the recreational areas, buildings, structures, supporting infrastructure of the built environment, motor fleet, and other capital facilities throughout the forest preserve.
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		<title>Measuring Maintenance Performance - A Structured Approach</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Feb 2009 11:38:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This research paper is made up of nine chapters of which seven discuss the theory of maintenance organisations and measuring their performance. The remaining chapters demonstrate this theory in a practical case study taken from an automotive plant. The author has structured the chapters in this way so that theory and practice can be kept [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Facilities Layout and its Types</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Feb 2009 11:36:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In manufacturing, facility layout consists of configuring the plant site with lines, buildings, major facilities, work areas, aisles, and other pertinent features such as department boundaries. While facility layout for services may be similar to that for manufacturing, it also may be somewhat different—as is the case with offices, retailers, and warehouses. Because of its [...]]]></description>
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