Fast service

The order cycle is the time that elapses between the customer s order placement and the time the product is received. The ability to achieve the targeted order cycle time consistently influences the amount of inventory held throughout the supply chain. Consequently, the speed and consistency of the order cycle are prime factors in supply chain design. Most customers prefer consistent service to fast service because the former allows them to plan inventory levels to a greater extent than is possible with a fast but highly variable order cycle. 

The use of computer databases and computer-controlled plants facilitates daily laboratory work. The recently set up expert systems for catalysts [79] help to reduce the number of experiments by rapid preselection, and accelerate catalyst development. In the structure determination of zeolites or non-zeolite molecular sieves (APOs, SAPOs), computers provide a valuable and fast service in that zeolite models are designed graphically on the screen, and the corresponding X-ray diffraction... 

Fast service Progressive Insurance, as described by Michael Hammer, has innovated its auto claims processing processes to speedily process claims in order to retain customers. ... 

Because the service is performed against preset parameters, the batteries are charged and discharged under true field conditions, a feature that provides accurate test results as well as fast service. Batteries with shorted, mismatched or soft cells are identified in minutes, their deficiencies displayed and, if necessary, the service halted. The derived battery capacities are organized into residual nd final capacities. Problems, such as insufficient capacity reserve at the end of field use, are easily identified to allow necessary corrections. 

In Chapter 8, we distinguished service and transport from manufacturing and supply operations with the use of system structures. We repeated Wright and Race (2004, p. 4) who say that A service organization exists to interact with customers and to satisfy customers service requirements. For any service to be provided there has to be a customer . Without the input of the customer the service cannot be provided. Rom the clients point of view, where in some service industries such as law and accounting time charged is calculated on 6-minute blocks (10 units per hour), the cost of the service is not cheap. Customers are becoming price conscious and thus service industries across the board are under pressure to reduce costs and at the same time to provide a accurate and fast service. 

Limited selection of items—A nutritional drawback of fast foods, particularly for frequent consumers, is the limited number of items on many fast food establishment menus, because variety is important for good nutrition. For this reason, meals eaten at fast-service, restaurants should be incorporated into a varied diet that includes many other food choices. 

In the coming months, Bradford White will introduce its OnGuard RMT System, a remote monitoring technology and service available for conunercial gas powered water heaters. OnGuard RMT combines proprietary hardware, alert status notification, 24/7 factory-based technical support, and fast service dispatch to give customers the ultimate level of awareness, protection, and peace of mind. 

The compact textual coding requires no graphical input and additionally permits a fast transmission. These are important advantages of using SMILES in chemical applications via the Internet and in online services. SMILES is also used for the input of structures in the Daylight Toolkit [22]. 

C. H. Detding and co-workers. Insensitive Munitions Characteristics ofAirEaunched In-Service Weapons Summay Keport of Fast Cook-offTimes, Reactions and Ha iards of Bombs, Pockets, Aircraft Guns, Air EaunchedMissiles, Mines and Torpedoes, Naval Weapons Center, China Lake, Calif., Sept. 1989. 

J. J. Bartel, H. J. Rack, R. W. Mar, S. L. Robinson, E. P. Gersde, Jr., and K. B. Wischmann, 1. Molten Salt and Eiquid Metal, Sandia Eaboratories Materials Fast Group Keview of Advanced Central Eeceiver Preliminary Designs, Sept. 1979, SAND 79-8633, available from National Technical Information Service, Washington, D.C. 

Properties. Most of the alloys developed to date were intended for service as fuel cladding and other stmctural components in hquid-metal-cooled fast-breeder reactors. AHoy selection was based primarily on the following criteria corrosion resistance in Hquid metals, including lithium, sodium, and NaK, and a mixture of sodium and potassium strength ductihty, including fabricabihty and neutron considerations, including low absorption of fast neutrons as well as irradiation embrittlement and dimensional-variation effects. Alloys of greatest interest include V 80, Cr 15, Ti 5... 

It is advisable that all the protective devices provided in the assembly be set to their minimum values to ensure fast tripping. They can be adjusted for proper settings when putting the assembly into service. 

Figure 16.6 shows the general yield and fast fracture loci for a pressure-vessel steel and an aluminium alloy. The critical flaw size in the steel is =9 mm that in the aluminium alloy is =1 mm. It is easy to detect flaws of size 9 mm by ultrasonic testing, and pressure-vessel steels can thus be accurately tested non-destructively for safety -vessels with cracks larger than 9 mm would not be passed for service. Raws of 1 mm size cannot be measured so easily or accurately, and thus aluminium is less safe to use. 

The low temperature which, if the materials come into contact with the body, can cause severe tissue burns. Flesh may stick fast to cold uninsulated pipes or vessels and tear on attempting to withdraw it. The low temperatures may also cause failure of service materials due to embrittlement metals can become sensitive to fracture by shock. 

Fast Rinse Cycle - The fast rinse step is essentially the service cycle except that the effluent is diverted to waste until quality is proven. This final rinse is always in the same direction as the service flow. Therefore, in countercurrent systems the displacement flow and rinse flows will be in opposite directions. 

Documents and Packages for Service Economy Low Very fast. The service economy requires quick communication. Air. 

Unlike the United States, countries such as Japan and China are far greater exporters than importers, and they site manufacturing facilities with easy access to waterways. Many of the ports operate as effectively as U.S. ports, but the intermodal operations needed for fast, dependable overland service lag well behind U.S. operations. 

The industry has developed higher compression tanks to expand the range, and more fast-fill stations are becoming available, yet the prospects of the majority of service stations adding compressed natural gas refueling anytime in the near future are bleak. The oil companies, which control most of the service stations and over 60 percent of America s natural gas reserves, are not eager to make the massive infrastructure investment to cannibalize the billions of dollars they have tied up in refineries, pipelines, and service sta-... 

This stability is important to plastics longterm performance. However, for some applications only short-term performance is desired before the product is discarded, as in the fast-food and packaging markets. In such cases it is considered advantageous for discarded plastic to degrade when exposed to microbes. There thus exists a requirement to develop or modify plastics possessing the properties required for their service life, but with the capability of degrading in a timely... 

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