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The project started in the Kellogg Radiation Laboratory with a federal grant of 200,000 and quickly grew to an 80 million industry, employing nearly five thousand workers at a number of nearby sites. In 1944, the one-millionth Caltech rocket, nicknamed Holy Moses, rolled off an assembly line outside of Pasadena. Caltech had become, in the words of Lauritsen s assistant William A Fowler, a branch of the Bureau of Ordnance. ... 

Step 5 Determine What You Need to Protect. An asset is anything the facility owns or employs that could possibly be exploited by a terrorist. In a chemical plant, physical assets include tanks, reactors, and warehouses. Bridges, trains, power lines, herds of cattle, and assembly lines are examples of assets in other sectors. In all sectors, people are assets, as are computer infrastructures. In the asset identification step, you need to identify everything under your control that you may need to protect. 

Raman spectra for SO -deactivated HM, CuHM and CuNZA were examined by a Spex 20 spectrometer equipped with a Spex Datamate computer. Zeolite samples were excited using the 514.5 nm line of a Spectra Physics 171 Ar ion laser powered with a Spectra Physics 265 exciter. To minimize local heating effects where the laser beam impinges on the catalyst surface, a rotating lens assembly was employed. 

Obsolete chemical weapons that have been in storage since the decades following World War II constitute the U.S. chemical stockpile and are differentiated from nonstockpile materiel. Facilities in the United States that have been constructed to destroy this stockpile employ assembly line systems for separating the agent from the munition. This is feasible because the munitions are overwhelmingly in a good and consistent condition. Leakers and other occasional nonuniform munitions that are periodically encountered can cause problems out of proportion to their numbers, however. 

The order-promising process employed partitions the due date time horizon into three intervals fixed product, flexible product and flexible resource. For the fixed product interval, which spans from approximately the present time to two weeks into the future, resources, in the form of manufacturing orders (MO) are fixed. An MO specifies the production quantity for each product at each assembly line in each factory. That is, a fixed production schedule is set, which takes into account both production capacity availability and critical material availability. Having a fixed schedule stabilizes production dynamics in the near term and allows for the required materials to be set up and put in place. Any order commitments made for this time interval must fit within the fixed production schedule. In the flexible product interval, two kinds of resources, capacity and material, are considered. The capacity consists of both production capacity in different factories and transportation capacity from factories to sales subsidiaries. The production capacity is given daily at factory level in terms of machine-hour and manpower availability, while the transportation capacity is specified as weekly maximum quantity from factories to sales subsidiaries. The weekly availability of individual critical materials is aggregated into finished good level availability grouped based on the bill of material (BoM). Any order commitments made for this time interval must satisfy the capacity and material availability constraints. The flexible product interval spans from approximately two weeks to two months into the future. For the flexible resource interval, which covers due dates more than two months into the future, the only constraint considered is production capacity. This interval starts beyond the resource lead times so any resource commitments can be met. 

In the twenty-first century, CAM is more or less the mechanical output aspect of GAD work, but in the early days, CAM was developed independently to speed up industrial production on assembly lines. Patrick J. Hanratty, regarded as the father of GAD/ GAM, developed the first industrial GAM using numerical control (NG) in 1957. Numerical control— the automation of machining equipment by the use of numerical data stored on tape or punched on cards—had been in existence since the 1940 s, as it was cheaper to program controls into an assembly machine than to employ an operator. Hanratty s PRONTO, a computer language intended to replace the punched-tape system (similar to punch cards in that the automaton motors reacted to the position of... 

The manual sorting method is labor intensive and requires operators to monitor an assembly line and sort out clear plastic bottles (PET) from the milk containers (HDPE) and colored plastic containers (LDPE, PP, PVC). The automated method can employ one of several analytical techniques, including X-ray fluorescence, mass spectroscopy, Fourier Transform Near Infrared (FT-NIR) spectroscopy, Fourier Transform Medium Infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy, or tribo-electric analysis, on the recycled plastic materials. The state of Rhode Island has a single stream process to sort out the recycled materials with optical sorting technology. The recycled materials include cardboard, paper, glass, metal, and plastics (Rhode Island 2013). 

Car-Type Trolley Conveyors. These employ an endless chain to pull a series of small cars or trolleys which carry the material to be moved. These often have fixtures to be used in assembly lines or contain molds for use in foundry processing operations. 

Another example might involve a manufacturing assembly line job where an employee is much shorter than other employees. The employee reports persistent shoulder and elbow pain, which the employer observes is caused by reaching higher than the other employees to perform the job tasks. This may also be an appropriate case for you to focus the analysis and control efforts on the employee who reported the problem. 

The target board, located at the focal line of the mirrors, lies under a wind tunnel along which cooling air is deflected across the specimens. A nozzle assembly is employed to spray the specimens with deionized water in accordance with established schedules. Nighttime spray cycles can be used to keep specimens moist during the nontracking portion of the test. The entire three-year real-time Florida... 

A report is presented on the diagnosis of the failure of a component made from a 33% glass-reinforced nylon 66 on the assembly line with the aid of DSC, thermal gravimetric analysis, which was utilised to determine filler content and type. X-ray fluorescence and IR spectroscopy. The analytical procedures employed indicated that failure of the component could be attributed to the presence of chlorine probably arising from contamination of the process by PVC. 

In addition to the automated material handling system used for transporting panels and trusses between the sub-assembly workstations and the assembly line, the following equipment is employed In the factory ... 

The spinnerets in a production line assembly consist of multiple groupings of orifices thus the number of fibers from a single spinning ceU can vary. AU three spinning techniques mentioned above commonly employ spinning lines that carry as many as 250 fibers (sometimes referred to as a rope) drawn from a single multiorifice spinneret. 

For conducting tests in pipe lines of 75-mm (3-in) diameter or larger, a spool holder as shown in Fig. 28-21, which employs the same disk-type specimens used on the standard spool holder, has been used. This frame is so designed that it may be placed in a pipe line in any position without permitting the disk specimens to touch the wall of the pipe. As with the strip-type holder, this assembly does not materially interfere with the fluid through the pipe and permits the study of corrosion effects prevailing in the pipe line. 

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