The Need for Speed

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A second problem was that analysis showed that there were only 2 days of actual manufacturing hme within the 5-week lead hme. The nonproduchve hme represented waste. It also created the third problem — that of excess cash tied up in inventory and factory facilihes to store that inventory. Production was authorized by an MRP system that generated work orders for stock, rather than actual customer orders. The orders were not prioritized by the system, and manufacturing management had to sort out the priority of work from hundreds or thousands of job cards from the MRP scheduler.  

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Initially, when the number of compounds and samples is high, method quality can be balanced by the need for speed. The risk of a potentially incorrect decision based on low-quality bioanalysis is much more manageable in early discovery, particularly because this phase is not regulated but is for decision making and candidate selection purposes only. Expectations for method quality are generally lower for in vitro samples than those from in vivo studies. This is due in part to the amount of effort required to synthesize the relatively modest amount of compound for an in vitro experiment compared to the amount necessary to dose animals and also due to the complexity of the sample matrix, which is much simpler for in vitro samples than in vivo samples such as plasma or tissue. 

Lesney, M. S., Combinatorial Chemistry Feeds the Need for Speed. Today s Chemist at Work 1999, 8(1), 36. 

The difficulty in all current medical systems is that information overload, the high human and financial costs of medical errors and adverse drug responses (ADRs), and the need for speed, mean that physicians cannot practice high-quality evidence-based medicine (see Chapter 10 for the increasingly popular formal form of this) unless they move toward having decision support systems at the point of care. Such IT will naturally render the system more holistic because it can collate all data. However, if we are to consciously and aggressively go for a holistic form of medicine, then the need to achieve a more... 

The other factor is the electrophoretic separation of charged particles. The rate of this migration is dependent upon the viscosity of the solution the size and charge of the particles and most importantly, the potential applied. In normal electrophoresis, the potential is a compromise between the need for speed and the need to reduce heat. With capillaries, high potentials can be applied, as much as 300 V/cm to date. 

Olfactory flicking seems to be matched to the animal s olfactory need. For instance, the tropical mantis shrimp G. falcatus becomes increasingly involved in sophisticated aggressive and reproductive encounters as it grows. It also hunts faster and more elusive prey. These complex social and foraging behavior patterns require rapid responses. Perhaps to accommodate the need for speed, antennule flicking velocity and frequency increase several fold with body size (Fig. 11.5a, Mead et al. 1999). Flicking reduces the boundary layer so that odors penetrate the array more quickly (Mead and Koehl 2000), and increases the rate at which chemical information is obtained. 

The intense interest in recent years in determining DNA, ribonucleic acid (RNA), proteins, and the like in limited amounts of biological samples, as well as the drive in chemical laboratories to reduce sample and reagent volumes, thereby reducing waste, and the need for speed in many laboratories has led to the development of a variety of microvolume UV/VIS instruments, many of... 

For example, consider a set of chips that are manufactured in equal numbers of slow, medium, and fast parts. If the chips are speed sorted before assembly into the MCM, there should be 33% slow modules, 33% medium modules and 33% fast modules. If not speed sorted, these ratios change drastically as shown in Fig. 8.118. For a 4-chip module assembled from unsorted die, there will be 80% slow systems, 19% medium systems, and only 1 % fast systems. This dramatic reduction in fast modules also justifies the need for speed-sorted die. 

The War Department was but one of six major procurement agencies in the government consequently there was need for developing uniform termination procedures for all these agencies. At the request of the President, Bernard Baruch and John Hancock made a study of contract settlement and property disposal matters, which they embodied in their Report on War and Post-War Adjustment Policies (15 February 1944). Congress was meanwhile studying the need for new legislation and passed the Contract Settlement Act of 1944. This act, which pointed out the need for speed, equity, and finality in the settlement of terminated contracts, created an Office of Contraa Setdement with a director empowered to prescribe policies, procedures, and standards on contract settlements. 

The [MOE 07] setting corresponded to the need for speed tables (input/output block, different for the North LGV and for the Channel Tnnnel). The configuration of the input/output has to be adapted to the geographic configuration of the lines and signaling posts. 

Unfortunately, the two basic techniques used to assess flavor/fragrance quality— sensory analysis and conventional GC/MS—are generally too time-consuming, complex, and labor-intensive for routine quality control application. In fact, many of the test procedures and sample preparation methods described in this book are inappropriate for routine quality control testing. In industrial quality control applications, the need for speed and the large number of samples to be tested significantly impact the type of testing procedures and instrumentation that can be used. 

Finally, there is the need for speed [9]. Not in terms of time to market, but in process cycle times. In every design decision you should consider the processes that are involved, the process rates, and the cycle times of these processes. Whenever you can, design parts and select materials to allow for faster cycle times. Design parts so that they can be easily handled and easily transported. Remember, the easier it is to do something, the faster it can be done. 

The phrase the need for speed is a slang expression that is widely used in US culture. While the exact origins are unknown, its use was popularized by the 1986 film Top Gun, directed by Tony Scott and starring Tom Cruise and Kelly McGillis. 

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