Performance Measurement Project

Data include items such as collisions, fatalities, injuries, fires, gas releases, and well control losses. 

Names of the IRF members and their respective countries that provided the data are presented in Table 9.1 [3]. 

This association is a very good source for obtaining offshore and onshore oil and gas industry accident-related data. The association was formed in 1974, and today most of the world s leading publicly traded, private and state-owned oil and gas companies, oil and gas associations, and major upstream companies are its members [4]. These members produce more than half of the oil of the world and around one-third of its gas. 

Since 1985, lOGP has been collecting safety incident-related data from its member companies, and in 1987, it published a first comprehensive collection on global safety performance indicators [4-6]. lOGP performance indicators 

Names of the IRF Members and Their Respective Countries That Provided the Data 

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Centers for Medicare Medicaid Services. 2003 Annual Report, End Stage Renal Disease Clinical Performance Measures Project. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Medicare Medicaid Services, Center for Beneficiary Choices, Baltimore, December 2003. Am J Kidney Dis 2003 42(Suppl 2) S1-S96. 

Statistics reported by national authorities of different countries to IRF Performance Measurement Project. The guidelines of the IRF focus on the following themes (International Regulators Fomm 2orr) ... 

International Regulators Fomm (IRE) (2011a) IKP Performance Measurement Project. Homepage ofinternational Regulators Fomm. http //www.irfofFshoresafety.com/country... 

The case studies that follow have mainly come from live product development projects in industry. Whilst not all case studies require the methodology to predict an absolute capability, a common way of applying CA is by evaluating and comparing a number of design schemes and selecting the one with the most acceptable performance measure, either estimated Cp, assembly risk or failure cost. In some cases, commercial confidence precludes the inclusion of detailed drawings of the components used in the analyses. CA has been used in industry in a number of different ways. Some of these are discussed below ... 

Keep the presentation focused on the integration project do not be drawn into discussions on particular strengths or weaknesses of the existing systems. If possible, illustrate expected improvements using existing measures of performance. Where performance measures do not exist, propose them, and propose to define the existing level of performance in order to measure future improvement. 

Whereas all experiments described so far used systems in which the diene was covalently tethered to the RNA, true catalysis with multiple turnovers was the final goal of this project. We therefore performed measurements in which the tether... 

Meyer, Stephanie is a Principal of Stratos, a Canadian-based sustainability consultancy. She works with a wide range of private and public sector clients to improve their sustainability performance through enhanced performance measurement, management and reporting practices. She was project head for Stratos s 2001 and 2003 benchmark surveys of corporate sustainabiity reporting in Canada Stepping Forward and Beyond Confidence. 

A measurable variable used as a baseline or reference in evaluating the performance of projects or actions The idea that emissions reductions anywhere within a specific area count toward compliance. The possibility of forming a bubble represents one of the flexible mechanisms included in the Kyoto Protocol... 

It is not always feasible to directly measure the ancilla independently from the information system in other words, it is sometimes impossible to perform a projection onto disentangled subspaces of H of the form 7T/0Span o ) in some cases, as for the example proposed in Sec. 3, one can only project onto entangled subspaces of the total Hilbert space H. In such a case the information initially stored in the vector ipi) = J2i=i r< Iu<) G Hi must be transferred into an entangled state of X and A of the form ip) = i r> H) where the I vectors 0) (i = 1.. .., I) which form an orthonormal basis of the information-carrying subspace C, are generally not factorized as earlier but entangled states. Nevertheless the same method as before can be used in that case to protect information, albeit in a different subspace C. 

In Fig. 3 the apparatus is shown with which Stolte (1972) has performed measurements of this type NO molecules were selected with the help of electrostatic sixpole fields, in accordance with their linear Stark effect in strong fields. The source slit of 0 05 mm width has an image formed by the selected NO molecules in the plane of the detector slit which has an experimental width of 1-4 mm f.w.h.m. this width includes all disturbing effects like the magnification factor (about 18), the imperfect linear Stark effect of the NO molecules in the selected state, the finite width of the transmission of the velocity selector (Av/v = 7% f.w.h.m.) in combination with the chromatic lens errors and the directional dependence of the maximum transmitted velocity of the velocity selector. The j = nij = Q = 3/2 state was selected where 1 is the projection of the electronic angular momentum on the molecular axis. The hyperfine structure of NO influences the situation only slightly. 

Due to uncertainty, cost control is required to detect deviations and decide how to react to such deviations and change requests. The cost-control system is based on performance measures, such as actual cost of activities or deliverables (milestones) and actual cash flows. Changes to the baseline budget are required whenever a change in the project scope is implemented. 

The purpose of these processes is to ensure that the project will satisfy the needs for which it was undert en. These needs are multidimensional—Garvin (1987) suggests that quality has eight dimensions or performance measures ... 

The Maintenance Excellence Index (MEI) The sample MEI shown in Table 8 provides a composite index that integrates a number of key metrics. Each metric can also be monitored and trended individually. The MEI helps keep in focus the fact that the success of maintenance operations depends on many factors. Therefore, one or two metrics can t provide the total performance picture. The MEI concept provides a complete approach to maintenance performance measurement. If a maintenance process improvement has been justified on craft productivity increases, parts inventory reduction, maintenance cost per unit of output reduction, or value of increased asset uptime, the original projection of benefits and savings can be validated with the MEI. 

By asking the above questions prior to beginning a modeling project, the human factors practitioner can develop a better sense of what is important in the system in tenns of both aspects that drive system performance as well as the measures of effectiveness that are truly of interest. Then and only then can a human performance modeling project begin with a reasonable hope of success. 

CIM implementation, 514, 515 for information systems, 98-99, 106 FeasihUity stage (project fife cycle), 1242 Feasible region, 2528, 2541 Feasible solutions, 2528, 2583, 2584 Feature extraction (AVIS), 1905-1906 Features in CAD, 185 manufacturing, 452, 454 as performance measure of quahty, 1246 Features mapping, 463-466 Federal Aviation Administration, 1141, 1909, 1910... 

All sub-processes of the development process, beginning with the perception of deficiencies, require the analysis of process data. The data characterizes the system s performance and behaviour. This is necessary to parametrize the simulation model and build a credible basis for comparing the model s behaviour and reality. A common database maintained by both modellers and managers allows linking necessary and available information. A lack of data may lead to uncertainty, more complexity, and a loss in accuracy. Uncertainty is reflected e.g. by stochasticity at variables which in turn may lead to a larger number of simulation experiments and more volatile performance measures. On the other hand, the information collected in the project database needs to be relevant for the project. Otherwise, a flood of data to be evaluated and analysed hinders an efficient development process as it is time and resource consuming. 

Our calculations using an equilibrium stage model agreed well with the experiments based on separation performance measurements using catalytic rings as internals (Fig. 2.6). On the basis of these results, we have to contradict various publications that attribute the decrease to reaction-kinetic effects. The primary effect is the saddle-point character of the products and the associated choice of a second feed point. The options for calculation and especially interpretation of RD lines, which have merely been outlined here are implemented in the program SYNTHESISER, a software product from the first EU-project. 

Many thanks to Dr. S. Nunes for providing the PEEK-sn-0 and PEEK-sn-Zr membranes, and the CICYT (Spain) for partial financial support during the performance of some measurements (Project MAT2007/65065). 

Of greater value is the ability to discover strategic supply chain opportunities. The questionnaire will not tell how but can point to the what, the output of the QFD matrix. These could be needs that no current supplier does a good job of satisfying. The strategic initiatives described in Chapter 10 are examples of responses to needs like these. In many cases, the strategic projects may also reinforce needs to improve in customer-critical performance measures. 

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