Acmes Performance

The next response asks for Acme s performance relative to the ideal supplier. Of course, the respondent must buy from Acme. This information will assist in filling the why portion, the customer perceptions, of the QFD matrix. Why depicts the performance gap that must be closed. Table 11.3 shows possible interpretations arising from the application of the ideal supplier concept with performance measures for the industry and Acme. 

Ideal Supplier Priority Industry Quartile Acme Quartile Implication 

2 2 1 Company excels in this measure Acme could capitalize on its relative performance 

The table shows three performance factors that the customers rank high, in 1st, 2nd, and 10th place. For the top-ranked factor, the fastener industry is seen in the second quartile of customers suppliers, but Acme is in the fourth quartile. Needless to say, action is required. The second rated factor is one in which Acme excels slightly over competitors. This might provide a way to increase its business with accounts prizing this performance factor. The third factor points to another clear-cut opportunity to promote its capabilities. However, the low ranking (10th) may mean improvements in this area are unlikely to improve competitive position. 

Company excels in this measure. Should assure that any changes don t reduce performance. If the area is of high value to the customer. Acme should publicize its reiative performance. 

Distinct advantage for expioitation. Could direct advantage at innovative segments. 

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The comparative information supports decision making in multiple ways. If Acme performs below industry standards in areas important to customers, it could be falling below the competitive threshold. There is no alternative but to reach the industry standard. Table 11.4 is an overall assessment that could reinforce the responses elsewhere in the questionnaire. 

The right side of the matrix contains customer perceptions of industry and Acme performance. An I indicates fastener industry performance an A is Acme s. Unit purchase price and Lead-time are second and third on customer lists. But Acme lags in both performance attributes. On the other hand, Acme excels in lower-ranked technology categories. This mirrors Acme s slowness in changing in the face of the tight supply environment for fasteners. 

Amine Cross-Linking. Two commercially important, high performance elastomers which are not normally sulfur-cured are the fluoroelastomers (FKM) and the polyacrylates (ACM). Polyacrylates typically contain a small percent of a reactive monomer designed to react with amine curatives such as hexamethylene-diamine carbamate (Diak 1). Because the type and level of reactive monomer varies with ACM type, it is important to match the curative type to the particular ACM ia questioa. Sulfur and sulfur-beating materials can be used as cure retarders they also serve as age resistors (22). Fluoroelastomer cure systems typically utilize amines as the primary cross-linking agent and metal oxides as acid acceptors. 

Specialty mbbers, to which ACM belongs, are selected on the basis of their performance. As a consequence, many elastomeric families may compete for the same appHcation. A first selection can be carried out on the basis of oil and temperature resistance, according to ASTM D2000 (Fig. 4). 

Again, we believe the more training, the better. In addition, as mentioned with electricians in a previous example, you will likely find workers who are trained and qualified to perform HAZWOPER, ACM, and lead abatement, especially if your site is near a large population center. 

Models which include exact exchange are often called hybrid methods, the names Adiabatic Connection Model (ACM) and Becke 3 parameter functional (B3) are examples of such hybrid models defined by eq. (6.35). The <, d and parameters are determined by fitting to experimental data and depend on the form chosen for typical values are a 0.2, d 0.7 and c 0.8. Owing to the substantially better performance of such parameterized functionals the Half-and-Half model is rarely used anymore. The B3 procedure has been generalized to include more filling parameters, however, the improvement is rather small. 

Soil samples were collected along a traverse over the Honerat kimberlite and extended off the kimberlite approximately 75 m SE and 225 m NW from the pipe s centre (Fig. 1). Although it is common practice to collect samples from upper B-horizon soil (Levinson 1980 Bajc 1998 Mann et al. 2005) our samples were collected from C-horizon soil because GAGI samplers were placed at a depth of 60 cm (well below the B horizon). Within 8 hours of sampling, a portion of each soil sample was mixed with Milli-Q water (1 1) to create a slurry. The values of pH and oxidation-reduction potential (ORP) were determined in each slurry. Ammonia acetate leach of the soil samples were performed at Acme Analytical Laboratories, Vancouver, where 20 ml of ammonium acetate was mixed with 1 g soil sample and elements were determined by inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry. The GAGI samplers installed at Unknown were placed in piezometers and submerged in water at a depth of approximately 1 m below ground surface. 

General Motors has assessed the required activity of a catalyst that costs less compared to the current state-of-the-art Pt activity based on these con-straints. i Assuming that the catalyst layer thickness could be increased to MOO pm from the currently used 10 pm, GM has calculated that the minimum volume activity (i.e., Acm ) for a cathode catalyst that costs less should be at least 10% of the current Pt activity. In reality, this seems rather generous, given the recent trend to reduce catalyst layer thicknesses to optimize high-current performances. The DoE has developed a series of volume activity targets for nonprecious metal catalysts, with the 10% of Pt activity target (300 Acm 3 at 0.8 V, H2/O2) necessary by 2015. 

Note that, because electron correlation often stabilizes delocalized electronic structures over localized ones, HF theory tends to be inaccurate for such systems in the opposite direction from DFT, and thus, again, hybrid ACM functionals tend to show improved performance by an offsetting of errors. 

The following peptide chains were constructed by solid-phase methodology al, which contained either 3 or 5 Gly-Pro-Hyp repeats on the N-terminus of H-Gly-Pro-Gln-Gly-Ile-Ala-Gly-Gln-Arg-Gly-Val-Val-Gly-Cys(Acm)-Gly-Gly-OH a2, which contained 3 or 5 Gly-Pro-Hyp repeats on the N-terminus of H-Gly-Pro-Gln-Gly-Leu-Leu-Gly-Ala-Hyp-Gly-Ile-Leu-Gly-Cys(Acm)-Cys(StBu)-Gly-Gly-OH and al, which contained either 3 or 5 Gly-Pro-Hyp repeats on the N-terminus of H-Gly-Pro-Gln-Gly-Ile-Ala-Gly-Gln-Arg-Gly-Val-Val-Gly-Leu-Cys(StBu)-Gly-Gly-OH. All three peptides were synthesized using Fmoc chemistry on HMP resin. Couplings were performed with HBTU/HOBt except for Cys residues, which were coupled as pentafluorophenyl esters to minimize racemization. Peptides were cleaved from the resin with H20/TFA (1 19) containing 1% Et3SiH. 

Fig. 1. CAT activities in seeds of transgenic tobacco plants containing hs promoter-CAT constructs. A, Schematic structure of chimaeric genes introduced into tobacco. Details of the construction are described by Schoffl et al. (1989,1991). HSE sequences with the consensus C-GAA-TTC-G are symbolised by boxes the synthetic HSE2 is represented by two overlapping soybean HSEs. The CaMV promoter is a truncated silent version of the 35S promoter, providing only the TATA box and the transcription start site. B, CAT assays were performed as described by Schoffl et al. (1989), using 50 pg protein from seed extracts and 10 jig from leaf extracts. Dry seeds (ds) without imbibition and 20 h imbibed seeds (is), derived from the same plant, were used. Heat treatment (hs) was carried out for 2h at 40 °C prior to protein extraction. Control extracts (c) were prepared from leaves incubated at 25 °C. cm, WC-chloramphenicol acm, acetylated form of cm.

The synthesis of a linear precursor peptide of the HSV-a-[Tyr ]-conotoxin chimera (see Note 8) was performed by solid phase methodology on an Applied Biosystems Mod. 431A peptide synthesizer (Applied Biosystems Paris, France). Fmoc-based chemistry was used for the preparation of peptide using Rink-amide resin with 0.43 mmol/g loading. Four equivalents of Fmoc amino acid derivatives and HBTU/HOBt were used for coupling. The following amino acid derivatives were used in the synthesis Fmoc-Cys(Trt)-OH, Fmoc-Gly-OH, Fmoc-Val-OH, Fmoc-Pro-OH, Fmoc-Cys(Acm)-OH, Fmoc-Asn(Trt)-OH, Fmoc-Tyr( Bu)-OH. The synthetic protocol for Fmoc chemistry was as follows ... 

DMSO/1M HCl oxidation (39), was used for the second disulfide bond formation. The Acm groups were removed by treating 10 mg of the protected peptide in 2 mL TFA with 40 eq of AgOTf and in the presence of 30 pL anisole at 0°C for 1.5 h. The unprotected peptide was precipitated with ether, then collected by centrifugation. The oxidation was performed in 10% or 50% DMSO/1 M HCl solution (1 mg/ mL peptide concentration) for 14 h at RT. 

Today, this typical small industry of the Middle West is now in full production equipped with the latest type of forging machinery and machine tools. The upset forging is performed on a new 4-iri. Acme machine. The layout is extremely compact, with a minimum of manual handling between conveyor carriers and machines. So simple is the set-up, that only three men are actually needed to produce the forging, namely, the forging machine operator, the heater, and the inspector. Production ranges from 80 to 100 per hr. with an average of 600 to 700 for an 8-hr. shift. This rate could be stepped up about 20 per cent, but it would decrease considerably the tool and die life. 

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