Activity system design

This tool, described in detail in Chapter 10, will translate strategic choices into activities. These activities, in turn, will lead to the processes needed to perform them. Because application of the activity system method requires strategic choices, they should have been made or they should be made during the supply chain strategy design. For this, the team must be empowered to make needed decisions. Changing supply chains in ways that are counter to strategic direction will lead to confusion, if not catastrophe. 

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Supply Chain Strategy Activity system designs Development of themes and linked activities and process needs to support the strategy... 

The remainder of this chapter describes how to make the transition from activity system design to a strategy for adding partners in the supply chain. 

Failure Mode and Effects Analysis. The system design activity usually emphasizes the attainment of performance objectives in a timely and cost-efficient fashion. The failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) procedure considers the system from a failure point of view to determine how the product might fail. The terms design failure mode and effects analysis (DFMEA) and failure mode effects and criticaUty analysis (EMECA) also are used. This EMEA technique is used to identify and eliminate potential failure modes early in the design cycle, and its success is well documented (3,4). 

Thus from equation (6.99) it can be seen that the system designer has complete flexibility since, K, T and T2 are not linked. For a lead network, T must be greater than T2. The Bode diagram for an active lead network is shown in Figure 6.31. From equation (6.99)... 

A spherical preventer contains a packing element that seals the space around a drillpipe. This preventer is not designed to shut off the well when the drillpipe is out of the hole, although it allows stripping operations and some pipe rotation. Hydril Corporation, Shaffer and other manufacturers provide several models with different packing system designs for specific types of service. The ram-type preventer seals the annulus around the drillpipe however, each size of ram is designated for only one size of drillpipe. In other words, the preventer with 5-in. pipe rams can provide a seal only on 5-in. drillpipe. The preventer with blind rams is used to shut in the well if the pipe is not in the hole. If this type of preventer is activated with the pipe in the hole, the pipe can be cut. 

FIGURE 9.11 An example of a cellular system designed to study inflammatory processes related to asthma and arthritis. Multiple readouts (ELISA measurements) from each of four cell types are obtained under conditions of four contexts (mixture of stimulating agents). This results in a complex heat map of basal cellular activities that can be affected by compounds. The changes in the heat map (measured as ratios of basal to compound-altered activity) are analyzed statistically to yield associations and differences. 

The concrete block walls of the cell housing the generator tube and associated components are 1.7 meters thick. The facility also includes a Kaman Nuclear dual-axis rotator assembly for simultaneous transfer and irradiation of reference and unknown sample, and a dual Na iodide (Nal) scintillation detector system designed for simultaneous counting of activated samples. Automatic transfer of samples between load station to the rotator assembly in front of the target, and back to the count station, is accomplished pneumatically by means of two 1.2cm (i.d.) polyethylene tubes which loop down at both ends of the system and pass underneath the concrete shielding thru a pipe duct. Total one-way traverse distance for the samples is approx 9 meters. In performing quantitative analysis for a particular element by neutron activation, the usual approach is to compare the count rates of an unknown sample with that of a reference standard of known compn irradiated under identical conditions... 

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