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Continuous Flow Manufacturing (CFM) is one of the key strategies to enable the United States industries to adapt to any volume increase and rapidly changing requirements of the market place. CFM is an on-going analysis and improvement activity used to optimize the efficiency, effectiveness and flexibility of any process. The two basic goals of CFM are to reduce cycle time to less than customer order leadtime and to eliminate inefficiencies from the overall manufacturing processes. The thesis will describe reasons for the scarcity of CFM in United States industries. The methodology applied was a detailed six page questionnaire sent to over thirty-five industries in United States, using CFM as a part in their manufacturing operations. The research focused on difficulties experienced during preparation and implementation of CFM. The theoretical research and the questionnaire analysis revealed that CFM is indeed partially culture-based, difficult to understand, not easy to accept and hard enough to implement. Although the research was taken from a stratified sample of already known CFM implementors, full scale implementation fell very short. In fact, most industries in United States seemed to be engaged in preparing for CFM. Hopefully, the information presented will help the United States industries to formulate plans and strategies to implement further actions that will lead to more efficiency and effectiveness in their manufacturing operations.

In this election year of 1987 the state of Britain's technology has remained high on the political agenda. Following the critical report from the House of Lords on civil research and development (1986), the government recently announced changes in its machinery and priorities and expressed concern about British industry's (lack of) funding of R and D compared to the main sources of foreign competition (see HM Government, 1987).

AbstractHeavy competition in India in almost all product categories, due to diversification by large and medium companies and increased entry of multinationals, has restricted the growth of domestic companies. Previously, large companies enjoyed high profit margins by targeting premium priced products in the upper strata of Indian society. High levels of competition from equally reputed brands have not only decreased the companies' market share but also created price wars, reducing profit margins and limiting market growth. This has motivated companies to consider the lower classes and the rural segments, which they had previously ignored. By targeting these segments with products in small packs at lower price points, companies have experienced great success. At the same time, small packs also pose some challenges for the companies. This paper explains the importance of small packs for market expansion in various product categories within the Indian market, drawing on several examples to support the views of the authors. Copyright © 2004 Henry Stewart Publications.

The proposed paper gives a real time insight regarding the various scenarios of traffic conditions and proposes a Collaborative GeoLocation based data storage repository for purpose of smart traffic management system to tackle problems related to pollution and environmentalmanagement. The proposed system architecture help us to identify the shortcomings of the current systems and software tools used and proposes acollaborative model in order to overcome the current limitations in the traffic management systems with the help of data mining and analysis in orderto tackle with serious problems related traffic congestion and problems related to environmental pollution due to traffic The system proposed can alsofunction as a full fledged one stop solution for Environmental Management and Audit System for controlling traffic and pollution in various locationsand abide by operating principles and rules of any traditional EMS i.e Plan-Do-Check-Act Cycle [14][15]It is used along with highly scalable big database management systems such as MongoDB or H-Store for the storage of historical and highlydynamic environmental monitoring data in order to tackle serious problems related to the environment by studying data and the factors such as trafficand pollution affecting the environment for that location .Effective management of the environmental resources is possible by mapping of real timetraffic data and various other forms of environmental based data. this will help the corporate ,government and the concerned authorities to take smartand informed decision also simultaneously educating the masses using web as a medium of propagation of information and promoting a social senseof responsibility for every citizen to contribute for the betterment of the environment of the city.[29] [36]Keywords: Geolocation , GPS , Pollution , Environmental Management Systems, MongoDB, NoSQL , Big Data , Data Mining, Data Analysis,Traffic Management, Hadoop , H-Store, Road Safety