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- 51: Fordism And Scientific Managem
- ... get it out, you get out (Rupert, 1997, p.11) His results were increased stability in Fords labor force and a substantial reduction in operating costs. Then the Model T automobile was introduced in 1908. With the help of this model, Ford became America s largest automobile producer and vendor. Nevertheless throughout the 1930s Ford began losing business to his competitors, mainly because they were slow introducing new models of automobiles every year. (Encarta, 1998) Scientific Management ... technologies, permit shortened product development time. There is a new way of organising production and a departure from Fordism and all it contains. However, scientific management was used by Japanese automobile constructors in the 1970s when they began to compete using fundamentally improved manufacturing processes that consistently produced vehicles of higher quality far faster than Detroit (Oakes p.569). Japan ...
- 52: The Anti-Trust Case Against Microsoft
- ... just as well with more than one standard. Along the same lines, there are quite a few other industries that can get along without one standard. Take for instance the automobile industry. If you accepted the idea that one standard was best for everyone involved, then you would never be tempted to purchase a BMW, Lexus, Infiniti, Saab or Porsche automobile, due to the fact that these cars all have less than one percent market share in the automobile industry and therefore will never be standards. Probably the biggest proponent of government intervention into the Microsoft issue is Netscape Communications, based out of Mountain View, California. Netscape has ...
- 53: Crime
- ... in city or county jails or houses of correction. Crimes against people include assault, kidnapping, murder, and sexual attacks. Such crimes usually bring severe punishments. Crimes against property include arson, automobile theft, burglary, embezzlement, forgery, fraud, larceny, and vandalism. In most cases, these crimes carry lighter penalties than do crimes against persons. Robbery is the crime most difficult to classify. The ... business. It may apply to petty thefts by employees, as well as to million dollar stock market swindles. It could also include a service stations owner's charging for an automobile repair that was not made, or a physician's billing a patient for services that were not performed. Many consumer protection laws are aimed at whitecollar crime. these laws regulate ... as drug addicts, steal to get money to buy narcotics or other things they need. Some shoplifters steal for excitement, but others do so to stretch the family budget. Many automobile thieves take cars for the joy-riding, but others strip down the stolen autos and sell them. Many embezzlers take money from their employers to meet a personal emergency, ...
- 54: The Production, Characteristics And Use Of Aluminium And Its
- ... that the use of aluminium in all its various forms - plate, sheet, extrusions, castings and forgings - is increasing across the whole range of transport applications. The use of aluminium for automobile engine blocks and cylinder heads, heat exchangers, transmission housings, engine parts and automobile wheels has risen steadily over the last decade. The reasons for the extensive use of aluminium lies in the diverse range of properties (mechanical, physical etc.) exhibited by aluminium and ... Aluminium Association ¡V www.aluminium.org 7. World Aluminium ¡V www.world-aluminium.org 8. Innovation, Mercedes-Benz ¡V www.mercedes-benz.com 9. Ostermann F, Aluminium materials technology for automobile construction, 1993, Mechanical Engineering Publications
- 55: Fordism And Scientific Managem
- ... get it out, you get out” (Rupert, 1997, p.11) His results were increased stability in Fords labor force and a substantial reduction in operating costs. Then the Model T automobile was introduced in 1908. With the help of this model, Ford became America’s largest automobile producer and vendor. Nevertheless throughout the 1930s Ford began losing business to his competitors, mainly because they were slow introducing new models of automobiles every year. (Encarta, 1998) Scientific Management ... technologies, permit shortened product development time. There is a new way of organising production and a departure from Fordism and all it contains. However, scientific management was used by Japanese automobile constructors in the 1970s when they began to compete using “fundamentally improved manufacturing processes that consistently produced vehicles of higher quality far faster than Detroit” (Oakes p.569). Japan ...
- 56: How The Canadian Economy Is De
- ... the border to the United States. Canada also relies on the U.S for imports, Canada imports 233,634,800 million worth of goods in 1998 alone. Canada imports mostly automobile parts, chemicals, machinery, crude petroleum, durable consumer goods, computers, telecommunications equipment and parts. Since NAFTA came into existence the Canada has spent 96.6 billion on imports. Canada imports automobile parts mainly from the U.S. “As with exports commodity imports are dominated my automotive product.” With about 30 per cent of automotive parts bought from importing around 87 per cent of that comes from the U.S. Next to automobile parts is “industrial machinery, communications and electronic equipment.” With about 70 per cent of these products are being imported from the United States. With imports growing at the same ...
- 57: Movie: Life, Like The Great Gatsby
- ... on, there are some odd things that Fitsgerald relates to the story as important things. These important things make you really think about what it means to the story. The Automobile in The Great Gatsby is a very big topic for the conclution of the story. What we have in The Great Gatsby is a creative manipulation of the automobile as symbol and image to accomplish a variety of ends (O'Meara, 74). O'Meara goes on to say that when Fitzgerald accentuates mechanism and minimizes aesthetics, he depersonalizes vehicles ... on one or the other of these two functions.(O'Meara, 75). The result of the car is that it ends up killing Myrtle. Kenneth and Irving Saposnik discuss the automobile imagery from a technological standpoint. Knodt asserts that all of the novel symbol's of technology - automobiles, trains, and telephones are connected with destruction and evil (Saposnik, 131). I ...
- 58: Hemp
- ... dependence both on foreign oil and on nuclear power. Is hemp used for fuel today? One acre of hemp will produce one thousands gallons of methanol. Methanol makes a good automobile fuel and is often used in professional automobile races. It has the potential to replace gasoline as a regularly-used automobile fuel. It would not be in the best interest of Canada to continue in the direction we're heading. The cost to clean up waste from fossil fuel production ...
- 59: Hemp...A Help For Today
- ... distillation, or "pyrolysis." Fuels made out of plants like this are called biomass fuels. This charcoal may be burned in today's coal-powered electric generators. Methanol makes a good automobile fuel, in fact it is used in professional automobile races. It may someday replace gasoline. Hemp may also be used to produce ethanol (grain alcohol.) The United States government has developed a way to make this automobile fuel additive from cellulosic biomass. Hemp is an excellent source of high quality cellulosic biomass. One other way to use hemp as fuel is to use the oil from ...
- 60: Henry Ford
- By: Moe Transportation has become a major necessity in today’s society. Without the industrial revolution introducing the automobile, most people would find it very hard and frustrating to get around. Henry Ford had become a big part of starting this faster and safer “transportation era”. His brilliant thoughts ... of 15 he went to Detroit to train as a machinist. In 1888 he married Clara Bryant and had a son named Edsel Ford. In 1896, he completed his first automobile, the “Quadricycle” and in 1903 he founded the Ford Motor Company. Henry’s success was in fast motion and he was ready for anything that he was given. He was ... helped Henry Ford carry on his legacy. To this very day the “Ford” is one of America’s best selling cars. Without Henry Ford’s ideas and inputs into the automobile business, cars as we know it may not even be around. Henry Ford has gone down in history as one of the world’s most popular inventors of his ...
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