Reliability Case Studies Samples For Students

Solid State Drives (SSD) are storage devices that have solid state memory, emulate a hard disk drive to store data, and uses hard disk drive (HDD) interfaces as well as Non-HDD interfaces. CPU performances have increased due to multi-core architecture, but HDD performance has stalled due to mechanical parts. Due to this, they have become bottlenecks while accessing data. An SSD with NAND flash memory can improve access speeds.

Advantages of SSDs

SSDs are very expensive. However, due to the benefits that are offered by the SSDs, more and more enterprises are considering the use of SSDs over HDDs. The SSDs offer ...

Integrated Corporate Reporting

Introduction
Integrated Corporate Reporting (ICR) can definitively be termed as a contemporary approach to communication by businesses with the intent of providing a holistic report on the organization’s strategy. Hence, ICR is a concise communication approach to bring together all mannerism of reporting on the state of the business enterprise. Such include concerns regarding strategy, risk, performance and sustainability etcetera. Therefore, ICR is particularly concerned with provision of succinct information that captures the key challenges and opportunities that a business is faced with in its sustainability. This paper evaluates the concept of Integrated Corporate Reporting in the context of Malaysian companies ...

Article Evaluation

Article Evaluation

A. Introduction

- Does investigator report on relevant literature?
- How many sources were used and how many were recent (i.e. within five years of publication date of the article)?
There was an apparent use of relevant literature in the study, which is evident in the linking of theoretical underpinnings of the study itself and those of the literatures being used. For example, the study establishes the relationship between academic, first-semester academic achievement and psychological attitudes. The relationship in these variables constitutes understanding of resilience among first year college students, which was reinforced by the findings ...

Criteria for effectiveness of a performance management system

Organizations use different ways to measure the performance of their employees. An effective performance management system must have strategic congruence, valid, reliable, acceptable, and specific (Phillips & Gully, 2013).

Strategic congruence: The performance management system adopted by the organization must match with the organization’s culture, goals, and strategy.

Validity: The validity of a performance management system represents its ability to assess all relevant aspects needed in the performance. When the performance system aims at improving productivity, the aspects used in the system must be relevant to the job performed by the employee.
Reliability: A performance management system must show consistency. Individuals evaluating the employee's level of performance must consider the reliability of the evaluating method to achieve consistent results.
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Company Overview
Trinity Mothers Frances Hospitals and clinics include Mother Frances hospital-Jacksonville, Mother Frances hospital – Winnsboro, the Louis and Peaches Owen Hospital. They are affiliated with the health south, Tyler Care Hospital a facility that is a long-term acute care facility and trinity Clinic. It is preferred by multispecialty media groups as it has over 350 physicians and mid-level provider that represent 40 specialists in 36 locations that serve east Texas since March 1937. It is a 404-bed acute care facility that is located in Tyler, Texas. It offers a wide range of services; emergencies and trauma care, surgical and medical care. ...

In a normal setting, something is referred to as open source when access to and redistribution of such product or commodity is free and can be done by anybody. Software, therefore, is categorized as open source when after being built, its code is published and made available in the public domain for use and redistribution and even modification by anybody without having to seek permission from any authority. Producers of open source software can be either individuals or a group of programmers who do communal codes and later emerge into large open source companies (Gasperson, 2007).
Adoption of open source ...

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Reinforcing Feedback Loop

According to Bellinger (2004), reinforcing loops can best be described by the fact that one action has a direct additive impact on another. This means that given action A and action B, it so happens that action A causes an addition to action B. In return, action B causes an addition to action A and thus each action adds to the other and thus reinforces the occurrence and/ happening of the other.
In the Industrial Service Industries of America, Inc., there are several reinforcing feedback loops that are identifiable. To start with, according to ...

Question 1

Dittenhoefer Fine Company of China is competing on several dimensions. To begin with, the company will compete on customer service. Irrespective of how good the product is, the product may start to get bad reviews with bad customer service. If there is no improvement in the customer service, then the number of orders made may experience a sharp decline. The second quality dimension that the company can compete on is reliability. Prior to the introduction of the polymer coating machine, the company boasted of a good reliability record. However, a lot of reliability issues have been experienced over the ...

With the rising technological advancement and the need for efficiency in operation for any company, there is always a need for the development of a solution to meet these needs. In the case of Catacombs Inc., there are various technological solutions that will need to be implemented to make it competitive, deliver great customer satisfaction and increase its efficiency. This study is going to discuss the requirement, solution and the cost-benefit analysis of the proposed solution.

Requirements Analysis

The requirements for the company to implement an efficient solution are discussed as below:
There is the robustness requirement in the system. This ...

Impacts of Pollution on Wildlife

Introduction
Impacts of pollution on wildlife has been a controversy and a contradicting issue since it has been experienced in the world and specifically in the united States of America for a long period of time. There are environmental laws which are hard on some manufacturing and production industry in North America and this makes them to be held responsible of various wildlife cases. The environmental laws in the United States of America have enacted endangered species Act in which it is a general rule which has held several companies responsible of the reduction of Wolverines in Montana glacial ...

Policy questions and issues the company might face

In my company there are legal and regulatory issues that I will taken care of. When moving the company’s applications and data to the Cloud, they will be located anywhere in the planet by the providers. In this case the management of data will be determined by the set of laws applied to the physical location of data centers and clusters. I will use a conservative approach to host the companies sensitive data. Due to the availability of zones6 promoted by Amazon EC2 in US will be an advantage to the company because it will identify a set of resources ...

Homework

Discussion Questions
1: If you were part of the conversation taking place in this case, what advice would you give the CEO concerning how to assess training needs?
In this scenario, training needs assessment is required. Training needs assessment entails a continuous process that involves data collection to help identify what training needs exist. Once these training needs are identified, an organization can go ahead and develop a training plan that will assist in achieving organization’s goals.
First, I would advise the CEO to identify the specific areas of the business that needs training. It is important ...

Abstract

The Hurricane Katrina presents one of the most devastating disasters ever witnessed by the global community. From the Engineering perspective, the Katrina disaster is of high relevance because it challenged ethics in engineering professional. The disaster caused a storm surge that levees in New Orleans were unable to sustain. Evidence affirms that the Katrina disaster is attributable to failures in various elements including engineering, political and social systems. In the Katrina case, the engineering failure that prompted the incident is identifiable in the fact that the engineers failed to armor or protect the levees against erosion. Other factors including the ...

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Abstract

Strategic Management is a function of control, extended to long-term goals and actions of the company. Strategy Formulation (modus operandi) and its precise tools are the core of governance and an important sign of good management of the company.
Strategic management is a development and implementation of actions leading to long-term excess of the level of effectiveness of the company above the competition.

Strategy - the image of organizational actions and management approaches used to achieve organizational goals and objectives.

The five elements of the strategy (H. Mintzberg)
strategy as a plan;
strategy as the position;
strategy as a method;
strategy as a pattern of action;
strategy as a ...

Summary

During the application for credit of any nature from an individual or a financial institution, they have the permission as provided by the law to confirm the borrower’s credit record. The main aim of having such checks on credit checks is to know the borrower credit rating in order to determine whether the borrower is entitled to be given the credit (Schmitt, 2012). Therefore, the report that is obtained from the scrutinized credit check is vital, as it is part of the discovery process. In the process of confirming that the information in the credit checks are clean, then ...

According to the ARC Advisory Group, Transportation Management Systems (TMS) can be defined as software solutions that assist in acquisition of transportation services and in implementation of transportation related plans, enhance short-term planning of transportation activities, optimize the use of company’s resources and assets. These systems do not only manage the physical flow of goods, but also assist in measuring performance, enhancing collaboration and managing information and money flows that relate to transportation activities across all transportation modes.

Q1. Why are organizations showing more interest in TMS (Transportation Management Systems) today compared to the past?

The increasing interest in the TMS solutions has been driven by a number of factors. Firstly, the transportation costs are currently ...

Profosser

Introduction
Brand Momentum Inc. is a company that sells its services to other business to help them secure a foothold in their respective industries by showing them how to effectively market their products. BMI serves several major clients, though they are seeking to expand their cliental base through marketing. The options available to BMI are much more limited in scope; this is because of the difficulties associated with business-to-business marketing. BMI can directly advertise its services through various media forms, like magazines or newspapers. The company can also employ new media outlets to market the product, such as LinkedIn ...

The crash of Air France 447 is considered the biggest disaster ever to hit Air France and Airbus since the beginning of their venture into this industry. All of the 228 passengers and crew of the flight were killed in this accident (Palmer, 2013). Due to the delay in the recovery of the black box from the ocean bed, the investigations and final report, published by BEA, took nearly three years for completion (Jonathan, 2011). The final investigation revealed that the accident occurred due to the inconsistent data indicated by the FMC (Flight Management Computer System) regarding the fluid ...

LeanCor’s Supply Chain Case Study

Q1.
A consumer product company has a number of standard logistics operational characteristics. The main characteristics considered in the LeanCor case study include high inventory availability, constant flexibility during customer order processing and speedy deliveries from distribution points to the customer. These three characteristics all relate to improved customer service which is the main target for consumer product companies. More inventory availability means that there is no occasion that a consumer will require a product and find it out of stock. Inventory availability in the warehouses and distribution points is a key practice to ensure that customers get the ...

In this paper, the role of Joseph Dunn’s leadership at Ski Emporium and The Deli will be discussed. A good leader is the one who holds a prevailing and a dominating position. A good leader is capable of creating a stimulating visualization of the future and is able to encourage and motivate people to connect with that vision.
Since Joseph Dunn has created a company known as Dunn's Ski Emporium. The company is famous for their highly developed ski equipment and maintenance services. Dunn’s company provides reasonable prices to skiers. The speedy service offered by Dunn's sporting ...

Description of the Proposed Technology Solution

The technology solution to be implemented by Catacombs will be key in the improvement of service delivery and the reduction of cost for the company. The technology solution is composed of two data centers and several links for redundancy purposes. It will also have two perimeter networks that will connect to corporate WAN and internet simultaneously for redundancy. The internet connects to EDI system and web application system through VPN. The corporate IP WAN network will connect directly to IP phones, Wi-Fi devices and Video conferencing facilities. The solution will also have two WAN aggregation routers connected to the ...

WTTC’s Blueprint

World travel and Tourism Council is the organization of international significance with the overall aim to bring forward knowledge innovation and outline the critical role of tourism as the driver of national and international economic affairs. Comprised of the top management partners from various international companies within the top 100, the organization built on the sustainable internal capacity and experience, able to deliver the important mission of raising the awareness of the population about the impact of tourism and travel activities on generating global wealth and wellbeing (WTTC, 2016). The WTTC's Blueprint for New Tourism was announced in 2003 ...

Business Process

“Chemito Free” is the manufacturing company that produces the cleaning products free of toxic chemicals and insights. The mission of the company is to protect the environment from the toxic substances and facilitate the society with environmentally-friendly products. The products include household cleaners, vehicle cleaners, hand washes, sanitizers, baby cleaners, fresheners, bathroom cleaners and controllers. The company is going to offer its products in the local as well as in the international market. Being a manufacturing business, it is very required and important for the company to maintain its business processes to make its products outreach to the customers ...

This refers to a market approach whereby the organization’s attitude and culture aims to achieve long term success through customer satisfaction. This culture involves every member of the firm participating actively in the improvement of quality of goods, services and processes of the business to enhance consumer satisfaction. It centres its’ efforts in doing away with waste and inefficiencies by getting things done right at the first instance. This creates an all-inclusive and effective working culture.
Notably, the total quality management founded on eight essential elements that include, but are not limited to “ethics, trust, training, team work, ...

Test plan

Test Objective
The purpose of conducting this test is to ensure that the minimum safe arming distance of the SRAW is accurately determined. The key objective of this test is that SRAW must be armed at a minimum distance of 16 metres. A properly planned and executed test program saves the cost of the entire program and ensures that results are obtained as expectations and that the device performs as per expectations when placed in actual conditions (Skelley et al., 2004).

Test Scenarios Set Up

In order to run the basic scenarios for proper functioning of SRAW CTP, System Development and Demonstration phase ...

Powers Report: The Enron scandal

The Enron scandal that occurred in 2001 has been cited as the biggest audit failure. The scandal would later lead to the bankruptcy and collapse of Enron Corporation. Enron was an American energy company that was based in Houston. It was the largest energy company in the United States. The scandal also led to the dissolution of Arthur Andersen, an accounting firm that was one among the largest five accounting firms in the world. The investigation began when the share price of the company declined sharply from $ 90.75 in the mid of 2000 to less than $1 in 2001 ( ...

Following the occurrence of the deep water horizon disaster, this case study is to evaluate the possible factors that contributed to the disaster at Deep Water Horizon, Crisis communication. This would help in coming up with recommendations and crisis management of such cases.

Organizational factors
The deep ocean water was preventable had there been existing practices and progressives guidelines to be followed. Those catastrophic failures was because of multiple violations of laws governing the public resource development and the proper regulatory oversight. Due to occurrence of this deep ocean water disaster, additional weaknesses in the barriers of the system ...

Qualitative research methods such as case studies, comparative and historical approaches have gained popularity and relevance as research methods within the field of social research such as international relations. This prominence has mainly been attributed to the unique features and advantages that these methods enjoy over other research methods in the study of complex social phenomena, events, groups, relations and communities within specific contexts (Becker, Bryman & Ferguson, 2012). Further, the capability of some of these research methodologies, such as case studies, to provide researchers with the ability or possibility of developing theories, evaluating programs and developing appropriate interventions has ...

Industry Issues

The automobile industry is experiencing rapid internationalization due to the expansion of the automobile companies. As a result, all of the companies are facing challenges of the changes in the global automobile market . Generally, it can be stated that cultures and legal environments of the different countries pose significant challenges and hindrances to international companies like the Volkswagen. Automobile companies are increasingly pressurized to produce a vehicle with reduced carbon emissions , In addition, to this, the threat of oil depletion also presents a significant challenge to the companies. The automobile industry faces the challenge of producing an efficient, fast ...

Background of the Study

The fast food industry is witnessing an unprecedented growth in the recent years. In this era of globalization, multinational organizations are willing to expand their business operations in growth markets. For exploiting this opportunity of global expansion, they must formulate appropriate business strategies according to the targeted market (DePalma, 2002). These strategies are based on host country’s geopolitical and socio-economic environment. Nowadays, companies are aware of the fact that if they want to attain lucrative business then they have to focus on local needs, as well. Glocalization is new business concept, which is used to elucidate the concept ...

Tulip Cycling is a small bicycle and rental touring company that has embraced the use of the internet for marketing its services. The internet is an effective way of reaching visitors from abroad, particularly those from the United States. However, the effectiveness of the internet as a medium of marketing greatly depends on the efficiency of the company’s web site.

Analysis and Evaluation

The company’s web site was developed in the year 2000. Adrian Blok, the owner of the company, employed the help of local professionals to create the web site. He used his knowledge, experience and enthusiasm of the cycling field ...

Abstract

Some employers do not have an active working policy or procedures in place to help those with addictions. In today’s economy, most employees are under tremendous pressure to maintain employment and support their family while being burden with financial stress. In the case, there are policies and procedures in place, however; it appears throughout the area some places have not exercised them. Maintaining and sustaining a highly competitive business in the global marketplace is a challenging venture for the Branch’s management because of the alcohol issue. Ensuring that the workforce drug free, highly achieving, motivated and supplied with tools ...

Introduction

There are key factors in business growth and sustainability. These factors are: reliability of the service offered, high product quality and management of the business operations. Undertaking the analysis of Starbucks reinforces the three concepts of control and quality management, providing reliable service and having efficient operations. Starbucks is a global American coffee company headquartered in Seattle, Washington and was founded in 1971. Starbucks one of the largest coffeehouse company, with approximately 23,305 stores spread in more than 63 countries around the world. The stores offer hot and cold beverages, whole-bean coffee, snacks, pastries, teas and ground instant coffee. ...

Management

Module 1 – SLP
Mission and Vision statements defines an organization’s core values and are often used as the guiding principles in establishing organizational objectives. However, more and more companies have a discombobulated notion about the role of the mission and vision statement resulting to a creation of a rather more confusing jargon. What constitutes a good mission and vision statement according to Welch and Welch (2008) should convey a clear definition of realistic and more achievable expectations. Mission and Vision statements should possess specific elements that define the universal values of an organization.

The key elements that an explicitly constructed mission statement that demonstrates definition of an organization’s priorities are:

- Specific aim - Organizations often fall victim into ...

The UMUC Haircuts has been serving customers for two decades. During this period, Myra opened six more premises offering similar services in other locations and increased the variety of services. Many other businesses that offer haircut services also established their premises closer to UMUC hence offering competition. Myra, who is the manager, wants to introduce high technology solutions to improve her services. Over time, she was unable to keep contact with her customers and send them birthday wishes. She also was not able to keep track of prices of products of her suppliers. She became desperate for a technological solution ...

How should Jonathan describe the rationale of the dividend discount model (DDM) and demonstrate its use in calculating the justifiable price of PCU share?
Firstly, Jonathan should explain to Dwayne that there are different methods how a financial or a security analyst can analyze the fundamental and technical aspects of a security, which in this case is the PCU share, including its price, the forecasted growth rates, and a lot of other aspects. There is more than one way of predicting the future stock price of a company . A security analysis can focus on the fundamental aspects of the company such as the ...

Introduction

The world automobile industry has undergone considerable changes influenced by various challenges and priorities. As a result, automobile producers have to apply effective tools managing challenges and problems. They must introduce efficient strategies to successfully meet their business goals within the shortest period of time. Porsche SE is a well-known world leader in sport and luxury cars manufacturing, which was established in 1900 by Ferdinand Porsche (Hitt, Ireland, & Hoskisson, 2008). The company is located in Germany and is presented all over the world in main automobile markets. The success of the company is the diversification of produced models and its ability ...

Introduction

The Small Package Express Delivery Industry is one of the industries where transportation and logistics giant, FedEx, is heavily involved in. Small Package Delivery pertains to a service wherein a company, which in this case would be FedEx, would accept payment from customers and other business owners in exchange of guaranteeing that their small packages would be delivered on or within a specified amount of time or a given schedule to their specified destination. Door to door small package delivery services have been a common service offering in this industry. During the early 70s, at a time when electronic methods of sending and receiving packages ...

The acquisition of the Brain Electrical activity mapping will reduce the physicians the time they spend on a patient. The Hippocratic Oath requires medical physicians to perform their tasks with due diligence and provide effective treatment methods to the patient. The medical field has recognized the need for the need for the BEAM technology in their institutions. Any healthcare facility that acquires the technology will become reputable and attract high profile patients.
The Metropolitan Hospital has already recognized that necessity and is planning to acquire a Brain Electrical Activity mapping machine. The machine will help physicians to detect abnormalities in ...

Self-driving cars

Google has developed self-driving cars. Although the cars are not yet fully developed, they have been tested on the roads. The cars are manned by operators who understand how the technology works. The cars have been developed to make use of cameras, sensors that use sensor technology and laser range finders so that they are able to navigate the traffic. They have also been developed to make use of maps which are detailed. This way, they are able to know the traffic and the road that has been set ahead. This is enhanced and made possible with the well-developed ...

Abstract

The healthcare sector has seen the introduction of information technologies that has helped in the enhancement of health care procedures. This effort has been seen to be going on for a long time. Information processes like information retrieval have helped in achieving efficient management of health care processes and procedures. The source of information that are fed to healthcare information systems should be assessed to ensure that the integrity of data is achieved. Data management is an important aspect of the information process. There should be ways on which e information is ensured to be safe.

Organization’s information security policies

Johns Hopkins hospital has ...

Introduction

In modern management due increased competition, the pressure for efficiency and reliability has occasioned the need for organizational changes. Most of the changes are aimed at facilitating operations on a new paradigm that promises to provide efficiency and reliability. Key in this approach is the application of information technology. In the health sector, the application and functionality of the electronic health record (EHR) systems has increased. It is on this premise that the Happy Trials Health Center has committed to developing an organizational culture that is quality driven and patient oriented. This decision calls for implementation of the electronic health ...

Introduction

Economics describes markets depending on the factors that define their competitive nature. In that respect, factors like the number of firms, their market share, market power, pricing strategies as being price leaders or price searchers as well as the ease and barriers to market entry. Therefore, markets are defined into categories of monopolistic, competitive and oligopolistic and have differences in their pricing and output decisions hence different effects and implication on the national economy. In that respect, governments tend to exercise appropriate regulation on the markets in order to achieve national objectives. In this consideration, this analysis seeks to ...

Background Information:

Union Carbide Corporation is a corporation or a wholly owned subsidiary of Dow Chemical; it is the producer of chemicals and polymers that undergo more than one conversion before it reaches the consumers. The company employs over 2400 people. The markets that are served by these products include paints and coatings, packaging, cable and wire, household products, personal care, automotive, textiles, agriculture, oil, gas and pharmaceuticals. The Union Carbide Corporation is a earlier constituent of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
The company had found a cost-effective way to produce ethylene from naturally found gas and liquids, such as propane and ethane. This ...

Customer First:

Customer first refers to activities with customers in focus. Customer focus goal align all activities in direction that is aimed to meet the customer need. Toyota has realization that best product that does not meet the customer desires is of no value. Customer focus forms the basis of every product development process as given in the flow chart:

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For the purpose, Toyota has R&D centre that work for the development of appealing products and maintaining high quality that ensures all desires of customers are met; hence, customer comes first being actually implemented.

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Abstract

Mergers and acquisitions (M & A) is a topic that has over the years generated much heat due to the surmounting number of cases of failure. Some critics have argued that failure can be attributed to misconceptions prior to mergers, wrongful strategies and tactics while others inability of most employees to acclimatize to the changes. For example, it is presumably argued in Sbeit that every worker gets affected when changes are effected in an organization. In some cases, the employees are quick to adapt to the changes that may potentially lead to great success in the merger while on the other ...

Shaping the market offerings

1. At the second level of the customer value hierarchy, the marketer has to turn the core benefit into a basic product.
2. Design is the totality of features that affect how a product looks and functions in terms of customer requirements.
3. Top firms audit service performance by collecting voice of customer (VOC) measurements to probe customer satisfiers and dissatisfiers.
4. Services are typically produced and consumed simultaneously. This is an example of the inseparability characteristic of services.
5. In considering an observed price, consumers often compare it to an internal price called a reference price.
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1. This case study outlines a meticulous, multifaceted process that Standard Life utilizes in order to find the best candidates for this incredibly competitive job. The human resources management strategy they are implementing in this process is highly selective and aims for the best of the best, knowing that highly qualified individuals will desire to work for them. While they do send out information to all universities to let everyone know about their job opportunities, they only send out HR staff to career fairs at 25 of the most well-regarded universities, showcasing their search for excellent. Next, they have to ...