Systems integration management, relativity

In the area of documentation systems, there were several managers who had volunteered their site to be the pilot location. A relatively small location (Poole Harbor) was selected because while it had numerous documentation systems, it was also determined that the overall implementation time would be fairly short. This provided feedback in an expeditious fashion. The remaining managers who had volunteered their sites were used as part of a pilot review team to keep their interest and support active. They actually started to implement the protocols for a few of the documentation systems on their own, in advance of the roll out at their sites. They also became key proponents of the corporate-wide roll out of the overall integration effort, based on their involvement in just this one area. 

FIGURE 11.6 Scheme of data management and integration. Samples undergo several simultaneous assays, generating data that are transformed into results. Each project consists of a combination of results from different tests. The data management system correlates all data relative to each box (assays, results, projects). In this example, samples are declared positives to project X when the proper combination of results from assays 1, 2, and 3 is encountered. 

Simpler and more manageable expressions are obtained in the limit where the dynamics of the bath is much faster than that of the system. In this limit the functions A/ (Z) (i.e. the bath coiTelations functions C(f) of Eq. (10.121) or Cm (Z) of Eq. (10.124)) decay to zero as t oo much faster than any characteristic system timescale. One may be tempted to apply this limit by substituting r in the elements Omn(t — 1 ) in Eq. (10.141) by zero and take these terms out of the integral over r, however this would be wrong because, in addition to their relatively slow physical time evolution, non-diagonal elements of d contain a fast phase factor. Consider for example the integral in first term on the right-hand side of (10.141),... 

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