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Risk Management in Automotive Manufacturing: Stop Problems at Their Roots
By Larry Smentowski, Senior Industry Consultant for Automotive and Tire, Rockwell Automation
In automotive manufacturing operations, risks that go unaddressed can lead to missed production targets, safety incidents and vehicle recalls.
Safety hazards, aging assets and security threats can negatively impact your business, including your employees, revenue, plants, intellectual property, vehicle quality and customers. They also risk tarnishing your company's brand and reputation – potentially to the point where they erode customer trust or loyalty.
To prevent risks from reaching this point, your risk-management efforts should focus where many problems can be controlled: your industrial automation infrastructure. You can help improve risk management by setting your sights on four key areas: safety, quality, obsolescence and security.
Safety: Focus on the Three Cs
While industrial safety is vital in any automotive operation, it's often viewed as a costly burden, at odds with productivity. But that doesn't need to be the case. Best-in-class manufacturers, defined as the top 20 percent of aggregate performance scorers, have been found to achieve higher OEE and less unscheduled downtime while experiencing less than half the injury rate of average performers, according to Aberdeen Group research. Top performers also experience far fewer workplace accidents than average performers – to the tune of one in 2,000 employees versus one in 111 employees.
So, what are best-in-class manufacturers doing to excel in operational excellence and safety? They share a common set of best practices that can be grouped into three core pillars – or the three Cs – of an industrial safety program:
- Culture (behavioral)
- Compliance (procedural)
- Capital (technical)
Of course, it's not enough to merely focus on these pillars. You should strive for peak performance in each of them.
From a capital standpoint, for example, too many automakers today are forced to shut down machines for safety reasons if a problem occurs on the line. But in certain instances, contemporary safety technologies can be used to keep a machine running at a designated safe speed even when the safety door is open.
One resource which automotive manufacturers can use to evaluate where their operations stand in each of the three safety pillars, is a self-guided assessment conducted with an appropriate safety index. The index is a tool that can measure current performance and provide recommendations for improvement, if needed.
Quality: Get Better Visibility With MES
Quality can never be sacrificed, even as production targets increase and workforces turn over. Amid these changes, one of the best ways to maintain quality is with real-time information visibility.
Modern manufacturing execution system (MES) software can harness the data that has long been buried in your operations to help you improve quality management and reduce process variability. For example, it can capture data on process results, defects and attributes to help you support key requirements, such as visual defect tracking, statistical process control and root-cause analysis.
Genealogy and track-and-trace applications in an MES also can give you new insights into your processes, production events and quality information. The applications offer forward and backward traceability to identify upstream or downstream quality issues. And they can provide product-location and as-built data to help limit the scope of recalls.
Beyond data collection, an MES with an error-proofing application allows you to create enforceable workflows. This can help verify workers consistently build vehicle assemblies and subassemblies to specification, and help improve your first-pass quality.
Should errors occur on the production line, MES hold-and-quarantine capabilities can be used to manage affected vehicles. This supports the ISO 9001 and TS16949 automotive quality initiatives. Ultimately, it could help prevent defective and potentially dangerous vehicles from leaving your production facilities and reaching customers.
Manufacturing-process quality control was a priority for Guangzhou Automobile Group, one of China's top 10 automakers, when it implemented a modern MES.
The company uses its MES to perform defect control, and to carry out inspections and verification of quality issues. The MES also collects key component numbers and binds them with vehicle numbers, forming a genealogy record for every vehicle to help confirm they are produced up to standard.
Obsolescence: Assess Your Assets, Identify Risks
Equipment and software obsolescence can result in downtime and lost productivity.
The best way to tackle obsolescence is with proactive life-cycle management. This includes working to identify obsolescence risks that exist today, as well as planning to facilitate easier maintainability of legacy equipment and access to spare parts.
The best place to begin is with an assessment of your assets. Many companies attempt to do this on their own, only to discover the cost. They sacrifice an experienced engineer for several months simply to collect a baseline of hardware and software information for a single plant.
An installed base evaluation (IBE) service is often much more efficient. It can collect and aggregate hardware and software data across multiple plants in just a few weeks. What's more, IBE services also provide reports that offer guidance on where critical risks exist. A software inventory, for example, could help you uncover potential compatibility risks between firmware and software versions as you connect systems or update devices.
The findings from these activities can then be shared across multiple functions. Maintenance personnel, for example, could receive a report comparing installed equipment versus storeroom inventory to improve spare-parts management.
Security: Go In-Depth
Being more connected requires the ability to get your data to and from machines and people – at every level, in any location and in the right context – in a secure manner. You can achieve this with three key steps.
First, conduct a security assessment to understand your risks and vulnerabilities, and to identify the mitigation techniques needed to help bring your operations to an acceptable risk state.
Second, adopt a defense-in-depth (DiD) security approach. DiD security establishes multiple layers of protection by addressing security at six different levels: policy, physical, network, computer, application and device.
Finally, work with trusted vendors that share your security goals. Before selecting vendors, request disclosure of their security policies and practices. Vendors should be taking steps to address security within their own operations, such as providing security training to employees, and in the products they supply to you.
As you go through these steps, don't forget to leverage industry resources for help. Daimler Trucks North America, for example, used aspects of the Converged Plantwide Ethernet (CPwE) validated design guides from Cisco and Rockwell Automation for its network architecture design and deployment. There are always resources available if you know who to talk to.
The Power of Prevention
You may not be able to stop every problem in your automotive operations. But you can reduce the likelihood of them occurring and disrupting your automotive operations by focusing your risk-management efforts on where those risks originate. Proactively leveraging existing investments and infrastructure will help you better protect your people, brand and business performance.
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The blend of French and Indian cultures is very prominent from the moment you step in. Bonjour-namaste is the greeting during the day and bonsoir-namaste is the greeting at night. The lobby has stone stupas from Indian heritage, the wall behind the reception desk holds a large stone carving of the Ashoka chakra to signify the strength and unity of the hotel. The chandeliers emulate dresses worn by French dancers. Paisley designs from India's northern state of Kashmir are etched on the Sofitel's glass. WHERE IS IT? It is located in
the heart of Mumbai's prime business district, Bandra Kurla Complex. It is less than a five- minute drive from The Bharat Diamond Bourse. Terminal 2 of the Mumbai International Airport is about 12km away, and the domestic airport is at a distance of six kilometres.
Guests are welcomed to their room with a small offering of sweets — Indian or French or a mix of both. The base category Luxury room, in which I stayed, is a spacious spread across 38 sqm. As you enter, a double-door cupboard, a full length mirror and a platform for your suitcase line the short corridor that leads to your bed. The Club Millésime room is 41 sqm; Junior suite is 48 sqm; and Prestige suite is 57 sqm. Each of the 302 rooms is equipped with a good-sized work desk, a 37-inch Samsung TV, free wifi, iPod docking station, illy coffee maker, a small sofa-bed, and a fully stocked minibar. In the Luxury room, the plug points are easily accessible on either side of the bed, as well as beside the paisley designed work desk. The curtains are controlled with a switch by the bed. The bedside lamp fixtures are mounted on the wall leaving the bedside tables empty for your belongings and the telephone. The bathrooms, as in all rooms, have a separate tub and a shower. The decor is slightly busy with the sofa-bed's darkly coloured upholstery matching the pattern over the bed. The colours of the bed's base are also dark — mine was in royal purple. The art in the room is tastefully picked out though. Guests of the club rooms and Le Club Accor Platinum and Gold members can access the business lounge, which has a small meeting room for eight, as well as plenty seating on the floor for guests to lounge and hold informal meetings. This is the only floor in the smoke-free hotel that has a balcony for its smoking guests. Additional facilities available to them include: personalised express check-in and check-out, late check-out at 4pm, free evening Millésime wine-tasting cocktail from 5.30pm to 7.30pm, free 2-hours per day usage of the Club meeting room, personalised butler service, and free laundry and ironing service for the first set. RESTAURANTS AND BARS Pondicherry Cafe on the lobby level is an all day dining that has live counters. They pride themselves for their regional cuisines that are served every Sunday. Jyran – Tandoor Dining & Lounge is the Indian restaurant that offers cuisines from India's NorthWest Frontier Province. Tuskers, named after the vegetarian elephant, has only vegetarian Indian and international cuisines. Le Bar Diamantaire, which can be accessed through Pondicherry Cafe prides its wine tower that holds an impressive selection of global wines. Artisan is a patisserie by day and turns into a jazz bar post 7pm.
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PRICE: Internet rates for a midweek stay for a base category room in September started from₹7,000.
CONTACT: Sofitel Mumbai BKC, C-57, Bandra Kurla Complex, Bandra East; tel +91 22 6117 5000; sofitel-mumbai-bkc. com
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Definitely ^_^
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My fate was decided by Meteor…
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BIDDEFORD, Maine – Falling behind early in its first game of the 2019-20 season, Regis College used a full-court press to nearly pull off the comeback, but the University of New England held on for an 89-82 victory Saturday evening in the first game of the Jim Beaudry Classic at the Harold Alfond Forum.
Four players reached double figures in scoring for the Pride, led by Devante Thompson (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.) with 16 points on 7-of-13 shooting from the field. Marc Trinidad (Bronx, N.Y.) notched a double-double with 12 points and 14 rebounds, while freshmen Cam Wilkins (Taunton, Mass.) and Justin Evelyn (Uniondale, N.Y.) scored 11 points apiece in their collegiate debut.
Siddiq Canty hit a three-pointer within the first minute of the game as UNE opened an 11-1 advantage in the first six minutes of the contest. Wilkins converted a traditional three-point play to start a 10-2 scoring stretch for the Pride, capped by a three-pointer from Jalen Watson (Woonsocket, R.I.) to close the Pride deficit to 13-11.
Another Canty three-pointer started a 10-0 scoring run for the Nor'easters, but the Pride quickly cut the UNE lead in half thanks to six unanswered points. Ray Evans hit two three-pointers to help the home team increase its lead back to 11 at 33-22, and then the Nor'easters seemingly answered every Regis basket with one of their own, taking a 47-34 lead into the locker room at halftime.
A traditional three-point play by Jackson McCoy two minutes into the second half extended the UNE advantage to 54-36, but the Pride started cutting into that lead, first going on a 9-1 scoring run to close to within 10 at 55-45. McCoy capped a 10-1 Nor'easter run with a layup, but Regis did not give up, scoring the next five points on a layup by Evelyn and a three-pointer from Thompson.
Down 70-53 midway through the second half after a three-pointer by Alex Kravchuk, the Pride rattled off a 14-2 scoring run over a three-minute span to close to within five at 72-67. Regis came within three at 76-73 on a layup by Jalil Wilkerson (New Haven, Conn.), but the Pride would not get any closer, as the Nor'easters were able to close out the game.
McCoy led the Nor'easters with 20 points, while Kravchuk scored 15 points and Canty and Evans collected 13 points apiece. Avery DeBrito contributed six points, nine rebounds, eight assists, and three steals, and Drake Gavin added seven points and seven rebounds.
The Pride shot 47.8 percent (32-of-67) from the field, including 5-of-15 from behind the three-point line, but only 39.4 percent (13-of-33) from the free throw line. Meanwhile, UNE shot 46.7 percent (28-of-60) from the field, including 9-of-23 from behind the three-point line, and 66.7 percent (24-of-36) from the free throw line. Regis did score 24 points off 18 Nor'easter turnovers.
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'Doctor Sleep:' Still shining after all these years
Among recent big-screen Stephen King adaptations, Doctor Sleep has the distinction of not being a remake, as Pet Sematary and the It films were. It is, moreover, a sequel – to no less a King adaptation than The Shining (1980), which since its release 40 years ago has gradually become one of the most iconic horror films ever made, as well as arguably Stanley Kubrick's most popular and most discussed films.
Kubrick's film was touted as "the first epic horror film," and Doctor Sleep writer/editor/director Mike Flanagan (who earlier helmed the 2017 adaptation of Gerald's Game for Netflix) valiantly attempts to replicate that here. Doctor Sleep is epic in length and scope, and although never boring, it takes its time reaching the inevitable. By the time the narrative arrives at the condemned but still-haunted Overlook Hotel, one almost expects the gates of hell to blast open, but it doesn't quite work out that way.
Doctor Sleep exhibits more fidelity to Kubrick's film than King's novel Doctor Sleep (published in 2013), replete with direct and indirect references, and nods to the film. Indeed, this version takes as many liberties with King's novel as Kubrick did with the original. Over the years, King expressed his dissatisfaction with Kubrick's adaptation, but here he earns an executive-producer credit and has not made any complaints whatsoever.
Danny Torrance, the terrorized boy of The Shining, is all grown up and played by Ewan McGregor, who brings an appropriately haunted quality to his portrayal. Still tormented by his memories, he's making a valiant effort to regain equilibrium and a semblance of normality to his life, but needless to say, some ghosts won't stay dead, as it were. (If they had, there wouldn't be a movie.)
Rebecca Ferguson plays Kate the Hat, a wicked, willowy sorceress who acts as the guru to a roving band of nomads, known as The True Knot, which travels the countryside in luxurious recreational vehicles, preying on the innocent – usually children with psychic abilities – and feeding off their pain and torment.
Danny is inexorably drawn into this new terror by Abra (Kyleigh Curran), a bright young girl whose abilities Kate zeroes in on. Danny, who certainly has some experience with supernatural peril, becomes her protector, but the question is whether their combined powers will be enough to vanquish Kate and her fiendish cohorts.
McGregor, Ferguson and Curran all deliver strong performances, but theirs are the only characters who truly emerge. Even those supporting characters with significant time onscreen remain one-dimensional. Cliff Curtis, as Danny's friend Billy, is appealing, yet what should have been Billy's big character moment – when Danny finally details his past and enlists his assistance – is merely alluded to. As supportive as Billy is, wouldn't he have expressed at least some skepticism about Danny's tale? We'll never know because it's never shown.
By adhering so closely to Kubrick's vision, Flanagan isn't able to recapture the constricting, claustrophobic aura of impending doom that Kubrick achieved, yet Flanagan does succeed in creating a menacing, and at times, otherworldly mood.
It took some time for The Shining to be recognized as a classic, so it may be a while until Doctor Sleep finds its own place in the genre pantheon. Yet there's no question that this is a respectful and serious-minded endeavor. There are no cheap laughs and more than a few unsettling moments. It's not a complete success, but it succeeds enough to warrant a recommendation.
See Mark Burger's reviews of current movies on Burgervideo.com. © 2019, Mark Burger.


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The decrease in the operating profit of Samsung Electronics is blamed on the lack of a flagship offering in the first quarter of the year 2017. With the massive losses resulting from the recall of the Samsung Galaxy Note 7, Samsung relied on its older flagships, the Samsung Galaxy S7 and the Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge, and on its mid-range devices to deliver the much-needed sales over the said period. Analysts expect that the sales, and possibly the operating profit, of Samsung Electronics in the second quarter of 2017 may be bolstered by the launch of the manufacturer's newest flagships, the Samsung Galaxy S8 and the Samsung Galaxy S8 Plus.
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My literary idol is J.R. R. Tolkien, a lifelong Catholic who created the world of Middle Earth and developed his characters and stories–The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings being the best well-known–to depict the epic struggle of Good vs. Evil.
I was baptized Catholic as an infant, but I didn't start practicing until I was 19. I write young adult science fiction and fantasy, albeit on a smaller scale than Tolkien, but like him, the religious underpinnings are in my works, even if readers may not immediately notice.
My first published work, Dragontamer's Daughters (released in two parts in 2012, and re-issued in one volume this past summer), tells the story of Isabella and Alijandra, two sisters in an alternate Old West, who take home a small, injured dragon they find after a storm–and needless to say, their lives and that of "Pearl," as they name the dragon, are never the same again.
Even though there are cowboys and native people, horses and six-shooters and all sorts of other elements you'd expect to find in a Western, the world of Dragontamer's Daughters is a little different from ours. One such difference is the Church.
In my novel, it has a more feminine aspect: one can say it's even more Marian than in real life, with many references to "Our Mother," for example. One of the most important characters is a priest, Daon Raul, who helps Isabella and Alijandra take care of Pearl, and who is a crucial ally later in the story, when things look most bleak for the girls and their family.
The girl's mother is guided by her faith, relying on it to endure years of hardship, and drawing from it the compassion to take in and look after Pearl, which isn't easy. When we first meet the dragon, she's difficult to like, she's a lot of trouble, and, as the family learns, she's extremely dangerous.
Even one of the main antagonists–I won't call her a "bad guy," because she's neither–lives steeped in her faith. Governor Guzmarr is looking to arrest the girl's father, the dragontamer of the book's title, for high crimes he's accused of, but she does so not out of malice. She's a hard woman, ambitious too, but she's devout. She studied in a religious order for 12 years before the tragedy that the dragontamer was involved with changed her life and set her on the collision course with him, his daughters, and Pearl.
I didn't intend my follow-up novel, Lost Dogs (published September 2014), to have religious elements, but it did anyway, first appearing here and there as I drafted it, then having more and more allusions as I realized what was happening and embraced the approach.
Lost Dogs is told from the point of view of a German Shepherd named Buddy, who witnesses the end of the human world. In retrospect, I shouldn't have been surprised. How could a story about the apocalypse NOT make references to faith?
While reviewers have latched on to how true-to-life my canine characters seem, as well as the unique "dog dialect" that they speak, few have noticed the subtle religious mentions. But they're there:
- The Garden of Eden;
- Adam and Eve, and eating the forbidden fruit;
- The Satanic figure embodied by one of the dogs;
- Manna falling from the sky;
- Beings that may be "angels" appearing from the skies;
- A character spending 40 days alone in the wilderness.
All those and many more in the story, but they're subtle or inverted. For instance, the "manna" is not good to eat. The "angels" (if that's what they are) are not friendly. It's not fruit that someone is tempted to eat. And so on. Readers might not recognize them, but hopefully they'll pick them up subconsciously.
My next work–a modern-day fantasy/horror novel tentatively titled In Lonely Lands–will continue to express my faith, but I'm worried that not everyone will embrace it. Though it's intended for young adults, In Lonely Lands will be darker, scarier, with wounded characters who don't have God's love in their lives–and it shows.
In Lonely Lands looks Evil with a capital "E" right in the eye and rips off the glamorous facade that pop culture sometimes gives it. There aren't any sexy vampires or oh-so-cool supervillains, just monsters pulled from my nightmares. I'm hoping to publish that in October 2016. Keep checking back here for more on In Lonely Lands as it develops.
Kenton Kilgore is a member of St. Christopher's parish in Chester, MD; and is a 4th Degree Knight of Columbus.
Kenton is forging a new direction in young adult science-fiction and fantasy. In addition to the novels mentioned above, he is also the author, with Patrick Eibel, he of Our Wild Place, a children's book about the joy to be found in exploring Nature.
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