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Don't bother rooting around online in search of wagering details, track layout or a stakes calendar for Bay Meadows.
You won't find any of it.
Instead, you'll find info about pop-up yoga sessions and an event called "Explore the World of Kale." You'll find pictures of people with sleeve tattoos, pictures of people mounting fixed-gear bicycles and boarding commuter trains, pictures of people lugging around straw tote bags overflowing with fresh produce and grinning like they just won Powerball. You'll find leasing announcements. You'll find cupcakes. You'll find artisanal coffee. You'll find community.
Welcome to the new Bay Meadows.
In 2008, Bay Meadows Racetrack, a storied and very much old-school thoroughbred horse racing facility just south of San Francisco, was shuttered after nearly 75 years in operation. The iconic racetrack was subsequently demolished, grandstands and all, to make way for 1,066 new housing units for the rapidly growing city of San Mateo.
Bay Meadows Racetrack in 2006, two years before its closure. The fabled facility opened in 1934. (Photo: Erick Muñiz/flickr)
The fate of Bay Meadows Racetrack, once home to the legendary Seabiscuit, isn't unique. The racing industry is in decline and it has been for some time. Prestige facilities such as Pimlico, Belmont, Saratoga and Churchill Downs remain largely immune to shifting public opinion on horse racing, industry infighting and the rise of casino-based gambling. However, long-standing racing venues like Bay Meadows haven't been so lucky. And in horse racing, you need all the luck you can get.
One by one, these once seemingly infallible sports facilities, unable to pack the stands quite like they used to, have been razed and, in the process, freed up large parcels of underutilized land in primo locations in the process.
And so, an increasingly common — and desirable — breed of infill project has emerged in recent years: the old horse racing track.
Across the country, you'll find cookie-cutter housing developments, regional retail centers and mixed-use communities rising where fallen racetracks once stood. Last year, work commenced on Hollywood Park, a sprawling, 388-acre development on the site of what was once Los Angeles' legendary thoroughbred racetrack. Beulah Park, outside of Columbus, Ohio, Garden State Park Racetrack in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, and New York's Parr Meadows are now — or will eventually be — home to mixed-used developments with an emphasis on high-density housing.
And then there's Bay Meadows.
A view of things to come: An overhead illustration of the 83-acre Bay Meadows development. (Rendering: Bay Meadows)
Trains, bike chains and not-too-many automobiles
Now roughly 35 percent complete after breaking ground in 2012, Bay Meadows strives to be different from other racetrack infill projects.
Flush with public green space and promoting car-free-ish living, sustainability is placed front and center at this 83-acre "mid-urban" infill development. Targeting family-forming millennials who crave the convenience and flexibility of urban living but are also seriously looking to put down roots, Bay Meadows, if anything, is certainly the only racetrack-replacing mixed-use development to bestow new homeowners with a bicycle as a welcome gift.
It goes without saying that walking, cycling and taking full advantage of the adjacent Caltrain commuter rail station is a way of life at this transit-oriented project (one of the largest in California) developed by Wilson Meany in conjunction with financial partner Stockbridge Capital.
A recent survey conducted amongst current Bay Meadows residents showed that 85 percent prefer to bike or walk when shopping or dining in the area. The development itself offers a network of dedicated bike and pedestrian paths while San Mateo, as a whole, is regarded as an exceptionally cyclist-friendly city.
New home, new set of wheels: Homeowners in the Brightside neighborhood receive a Dutch city bike from PUBLIC. (Photo: Bay Meadows)
Twenty-eight percent of Bay Meadows residents surveyed claim to commute via Caltrain on a regular basis while 50 percent ride it monthly. Replacing the shuttered Bay Meadows station, Hillsdale is one of three Caltrain stations in the city of San Mateo. Positioned roughly equidistance between San Francisco and the tech hubs of Silicon Valley, northbound local trains from Hillsdale station to San Francisco run about roughly 45 minutes (26 minutes on the Baby Bullet train). Southbound trains terminate in the southernmost section of the Santa Clara Valley in Gilmore.
Just across the tracks — and El Camino Real — from Hillsdale station is Hillsdale Shopping Center, the largest regional shopping mall in San Mateo County.
Brennan Brockbank and his husband, Josh, are a fine example of two Bay Meadows residents who embrace San Mateo's half-way-ish locale on the Caltrain corridor. Toting a folding bike, Brennan takes the train south to his job as a science education leader in Mountain View (eight stations away) while Josh makes the daily commute north to his San Francisco office (nine stations away). It's a cozy little "dual-commute" set-up if there ever was one.
Smart growth worth smiling about: Resident Brennan Brockbank frequently ditches his car for a bicycle and commuter rail. (Photo: Bay Meadows)
And yes, the couple — they moved to their Bay Meadows townhome in mid-2014 — still own a car … they just rarely use it. Says Brennan: "My husband and I have always been big on riding our bikes, but — now that we're located so close to cafes and shops and right on the Caltrain line, there will sometimes be a week that goes by and I don't have to get in my car. That's a real joy!"
It's clear where Bay Meadows homeowners like Brennan and Josh are going to for work but where are they coming from to live?
As it turns out, it's split pretty evenly: 30 percent surveyed are San Francisco refugees; 30 percent hail from the South Bay (Santa Clara, San Jose, Cupertino and other Silicon Valley communities); and 30 percent, including Brennan and Josh, moved to the development from within San Mateo County. The remaining 10 percent of new homeowners have relocated from further afield.
And on the topic of surveys, a quintet of LEED-certified office buildings offering a total of 780,000 square feet of commercial space along with 41,000 square feet of retail will be completed at Bay Meadows over the coming years. One building, the built-on-spec Station 4, is currently under construction and has already been fully leased to Palo Alto-based digital polling powerhouse SurveyMonkey with a June 2016 occupancy date.
Located adjacent to the Hillsdale Caltrain station, construction on the first of Bay Meadows' five commercial office buildings is underway. (Rendering: Bay Meadows)
Green digs for social butterflies
Designed by St. Louis-based mega-firm HOK Architects, the 210,000-square-foot Station 4 is strategically located across from the Hillsdale Caltrain station within the beginning-to-gain-a-pulse commercial heart of Bay Meadows, the Town Square.
Described as an "energetic and dynamic urban core" and a "destination for everyone to celebrate life in motion," the European plaza-influenced Town Square will, when completed, feature a lively mix of retail and dining ("Boisterous sidewalk cafes!" Local artisan mercantiles!" A farmers market!) along with other amenities. And, as mentioned, Hillsdale Shopping Center is essentially right across the street ... and what more do young, upwardly mobile Bay Area residents need than a Trader Joe's, Nordstrom and an Apple Store? Not much.
Of course, every bourgeoning community also needs a main drag in which to see and be seen, right? At Bay Meadows, Delaware Street will serve this purpose and then some. To be eventually flanked by a biergarten, pop-up retail kiosks and outdoor fitness stations (residents and visitors can drink, shop and exercise but not necessarily in that order), Delaware Street will be the social hub of Bay Meadows.
Ping-pong parks and bocce courts: Welcome to Delaware Street, Bay Meadows' super-social main drag. (Rendering: Bay Meadows)
Referring to Delaware Street as a "a long-term interim concept that uses a collection of activity and park spaces rather than business to create the neighborhood's main street of social activity," CMG Landscape Architecture goes on to detail the programming that Bay residents can expect in the not-so-distant future:
In a way quite similar to bustling commercial streets, locals might find themselves drawn to Delaware Street many times in a given week for a variety of destinations and reasons, sometimes even just to walk and enjoy the social context. Anchored by the Town Square on one end, the length of the street is programmed at its edges by a beer garden, event lawn, swing garden, ice cream stand, fitness lot, ping-pong park grove, bocce courts, tetherball park, volleyball, and barbecue court. Trees add dappled shade, pedestrian scale, ornament, and color to the sidewalk experience
On the residential side, four townhouse communities on the north end of Bay Meadows have already been completed (and quickly sold out) as has a fully leased, 108-unit luxury rental complex named Field House.
Located on Pony Lane, the Build it Green-rated Field House is Bay Meadows' first apartment community. (Photo: Garry Belinsky)
Selected as a green demonstration project by the San Mateo Planning Commission, Field House — located at 282 Pony Lane, by the way — scored an impressive 115 points in California's Build it Green rating system. Most California jurisdictions consider 75 points to be roughly LEED Silver equivalent. Obviously, the bike 'n' rail-centric nature of Bay Meadows helped Field House comfortably shoot past LEED Silver equivalency as did an array of standard green building bells and whistles: high-efficiency lighting, Energy Star appliances, beyond-code insulation, water-saving fixtures and the list goes on. What's more, 86 percent of construction waste generated in the building of Field House was recycled.
Two mixed-use apartment communities, Rendezvous and The Russell, both of which overlook the bustling Town Square area and are spitting distance from Hillsdale station, are also under construction with work on an additional townhome neighborhood to commence next year.
When completed, 15 percent of all available residential units at Bay Meadows will be sold below-market rate.
Park life: Developed by Shea Homes, the Landsdowne townhome community is located opposite Bay Meadows Park. (Photo: Bay Meadows)
Goodbye golf course, hello edible communal garden
While much of Bay Meadows, particularly the mixed-use elements, is still in progress, one aspect of Bay Meadows that's already fully wrapped up is parkland.
Comprising an impressive 20 percent (18 acres) of the development, there are a total of four distinct parks. Bay Meadows Park, a 12-acre multipurpose space with ball fields and picnic areas is a shoo-in for families as is the playground-heavy Paddock Park. The linear, park bench-lined Landing Green features a bocce court and "elegant pathways" and is described as Bay Meadows' most "formal and contemplative space."
Last but not least is Persimmon Park, a public art-studded community garden with 99 raised planting beds for resident use, orchards and an al fresco dining area that's centered around a massive communal dining table. Standing in for the open space centerpiece of typical residential developments, the golf course, Persimmon Park is a "gathering spot that cultivates friendships along with bushels of organic and sustainable fruits and veggies."
Community garden-to-table: Persimmon Park's communal table is a popular gathering spot for neighbors, greenthumbed or not. (Photo: Bay Meadows)
Described by Brockbank as a "place where neighbors catch up while they're tending to their plot," Persimmon Park also hosts monthly classes run by Homestead Design Collective. "Our master gardener Mike teaches everything from how to ferment things to creating cocktails with your garden harvest," says Brockbank. "I love it that the classes are open to the general public and they're free."
While it wouldn't be completely accurate to categorize Bay Meadows as a proper agri-hood since it lacks a working farm, this rapidly blossoming urban village does come close.
In addition to Persimmon Park, a park where residents like Brockbank can "swing by [on my bike] to pick some fresh basil for dinner," Bay Meadows Park, the community's largest, serves a purpose beyond outdoor recreation and communal gatherings: stormwater treatment and management.
The centerpiece of Persimmon Park is a community garden with nearly 100 raised planter beds. (Photo: Bay Meadows)
Nestled between the park and the development's main road is a large wetland area and stormwater pond that doubles as a wildlife habitat and a means of preventing localized flooding. All of Bay Meadows' stormwater flows into the pond where it acts, in the words of CMG Landscape Architecture, as a "final filter" for runoff.
CMG elaborates:
The wetland and stormwater system also serves a broader city benefit, absorbing here the flooding that happened previously in low lying lands of San Mateo two miles away. In the event of a major (5-year) storm event, the detention pond and community park holds excess stormwater, and then releases it slowly to avoid flooding downstream
The neighborhood's streets are also lined with biofiltration planters that filter rainwater and runoff before it makes its way to the detention pond for re-filtering. Janice Thacher, a partner with Wilson Meany, describes the wetland pond as "as both an ecosystem for beneficial plants, birds and wildlife."
Located opposite Bay Meadows Park, stands the new 2.75-acre campus for the Upper School division of the Nueva School. The Leddy Maytum-designed building, opened to students at the start of the 2014 academic year, is also topped with a rooftop organic garden.
Baseball diamonds and stormwater detention: the 12-acre Bay Meadows Park is a true multitasker. (Photo: Bay Meadows)
And they're (finally) off!
Needless to say, such a smartly planned, thoughtfully designed project didn't rise in the place of the old Bay Meadows Racetrack over night.
The entitlement process, normally a complicated and drawn-out process to begin with, stretched out over seven years. The Silicon Valley Business Journal described the undertaking to get Bay Meadows off the ground as "epic." The recession of 2008-2009 didn't help usher things along any quicker.
Naturally, alongside positive support came some local resistance. Nostalgic-types, some pushing for preservation, bemoaned the absence of the old racetrack while NIMBY-ists fretted over potential issues (traffic, density concerns) that come along with 1,000-plus new residents moving into such a quickly growing area. Aesthetics was also an issue in a pocket of San Mateo where the existing housing stock consists mostly of modest midcentury abodes.
Thacher, who is also leading Wilson Meany's redevelopment of the old Hollywood Park racetrack near Los Angeles International Airport, elaborates on the initial concerns:
"The project proposed benefitted from significant community input and incorporated solid feedback that we received through that process," she explains. "Nonetheless, it represented a different style of housing than what had historically been built around it. Some groups were concerned about changing the fabric of San Mateo while others were concerned about the ramifications of height and blocked views or the potential impacts on traffic."
Located opposite Bay Meadows Park, the Bay Meadows campus of the Nueva School is topped with an organic garden. (Photo: Bay Meadows)
Thacher goes on to note that the City of San Mateo Planning Commission and other local organizations threw their support behind the vision for a new Bay Meadows. As Thacher notes, "by design and location it embodies smart growth along the transit-corridor and there's no question that we need growth to be able to accommodate housing for future generations."
She adds: "Through the public process, we were able to understand those concerns and modify our initial plan to respond to those concerns and we truly believe the project is better for it."
And one does wonder if the act of transforming California's longest continually operating thoroughbred racetrack (an airfield before that) into a blank slate fit for redevelopment presented Wilson Meany with a host of unique infill challenges, at least from an environmental standpoint.
Turns out, not really.
"As far as projects of this size go, we were fortunate that the site wasn't industrial or more built-out as the largest challenge was the demolition of the structure and water mitigation measures as we are fairly close to the Bay," says Thacher. "Aside from the in-fields, there was a significant amount of concrete on-site that we ended up grinding and recycling for reuse in the existing sidewalks and streets at Bay Meadows."
The 'sophisticated Edwardian architecture" of the Canterbury neighborhood is a "contemporary interpretation of traditional Bay Area styles." (Photo: Garry Belinsky)
That being said, Bay Meadows, as most longtime San Mateo residents knew it, has completely vanished from the landscape.
However, nods to the parcel's horseracing past are peppered throughout the development, largely though street and place names like Pony Lane, Paddock Park and Derby Avenue. A slew of the townhome-lined streets honor famous jockeys (Baze, Bisono, Olivares, Landeros, et al.) while one of the development's main arteries, E. Kyne Street, is named after Bay Meadow's founder, Bill Kyne. Racing paraphernalia is on display at Field House, giving the apartment building's public areas a kind of high-end equestrian club vibe.
While Bay Meadows has a ways to go before crossing the proverbial finish line, the development has already been deemed a winner. Sales at Bay Meadows, a model of smart growth in a bursting-out-of-its-seams region that's struggling to meet housing demand, are brisk to say the least. And while not exactly a fan of some of the development's architecture, John King, urban design critic for the San Francisco Chronicle, recently noted that at Bay Meadows, "density does not bring dystopia."
This ambitious redevelopment's homestretch phase, with its town square, social street and shiny new office buildings, should be a thrill to watch.


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I am back everyone with my second post of the day !
For this post I am sharing my project for
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CDD January 2017 Sneak Peeks.
Today we are sneak peeking the
super cute
Panda Holidays stamp set
Stitched Box die.
I used the Stitched Box die for my card today ...
warning I am LOVING this die !
You will be seeing more projects with it <3 .
For my card I used :
Digi stamp :
I also wanted to share the planner spread I created to match my mini .
This one is in the regular sized Happy Planner.
I really have fun decorating my planners .
One of my must haves is my Silhouette .
It makes it super easy to personalize .
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Zunesday [UPDATED]
Call it the Z2K9 bug. At approximately midnight EDT on Dec. 30, a number of first-generation 30GB Microsoft Zunes failed en masse. According to accounts posted to Zune forums around the Web, the players seized up during the initial boot process and became unresponsive to the standard reboot or reset commands. "From what I can tell it looks like every Zune 30 on the planet has suddenly crashed," one Zune owner wrote in a post to the Zune Forums. "Is this a virus? A glitch? A time bomb? A disgruntled Microsoft employee? Planned obsolescence to make us buy a new one? Or just a terrorist plot to drive the free world crazy?"
Microsoft (MSFT) hasn't yet commented on the failure, so it's difficult to determine what exactly is at work here, although it seems likely to be a firmware bug. Regardless of the cause, such a widespread simultaneous device failure is a nasty blow to Microsoft and to the Zune, which is already a powerful magnet for bad press.
"I hate to say it but I believe this is the end of the road for the Zune and I. Just as I was happy with the last update and things were fine, we get another major meltdown. I was always supportive and had good things to say about my Zune to those that would ask, however this is the nail in the coffin," one Zune owner wrote in a post to ZuneScene. "I can't take it anymore. I can't sit here all the time and wonder what Microsoft does right or wrong anymore, I just want to get up and go listen to my music. Listening to music is about the last thing I do with my Zune. I always have to reinstall, download new firmware, or wait for the slow software to catch up. Now this? I want to throw it away and never look back."
UPDATE: Microsoft is aware of the issue and working on a solution. From Zune Insider:
Customers with 30gb Zune devices may experience issues when booting their Zune hardware. We're aware of the problem and are working to correct it. Sorry for the inconvenience, and thanks for your patience!
UPDATE II:: Looks like Microsoft's discovered a solution to the Z2K9 bug, and it's a simple one: wait 24 hours and it will go away on its own. Here's Microsoft's explanation in full:
Early this morning we were alerted by our customers that there was a widespread issue affecting our 2006 model Zune 30GB devices (a large number of which are still actively being used). The technical team jumped on the problem immediately and isolated the issue: a bug in the internal clock driver related to the way the device handles a leap year. That being the case, the issue should be resolved over the next 24 hours as the time change moves to January 1, 2009. We expect the internal clock on the Zune 30GB devices will automatically reset tomorrow (noon, GMT). By tomorrow you should allow the battery to fully run out of power before the unit can restart successfully then simply ensure that your device is recharged, then turn it back on. If you are a Zune Pass subscriber, you may need to sync your device with your PC to refresh the rights to the subscription content you have downloaded to your device.


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Title: Charmed Life
Author: Diana Wynne Jones
Series: Chrestomanci
Eric Chant (aka Cat) looks up to his older sister Gwendolyn. She's been the only constant in his life after a steamboat accident drowns both of their parents and nearly drowns them. Even if Gwendolyn is the one getting all the accolades and attention, and Cat is left to muddle through in the background, he's happy with his life. Then the mysterious Chrestomanci takes both of them to live in his castle. And for the first time in her life, Gwendolyn isn't getting what she wants . . .
I would probably like this book more except Gwendolyn bugs me so much. She works very well as a villain—she's a sociopath of the highest order, with an entitlement mentality to match. But to Cat, she's his older sister, and he goes along with a lot of what she has planned, even when it's not in his own best interest. I particularly like the bit where Chrestomanci boxes Cat around the ears as punishment for NOT speaking out. Cat's passiveness works against him, but by the end he starts to realize that, and it's heartening to see him take a stand against the sister who has no regard for him.
Chronologically, this is actually one of the middle Chrestomanci books (The Lives of Christopher Chant would come first), but it's perfectly readable without having read the other. This being a shorter book, the world isn't as on display as some of the others, but the little details are still interesting. This is a world much more open about magic, and it's practiced by many sorts of people. Cat grew up under the shadier sorts, which shaped his sense of morality a bit (one also gets the sense, based on Gwendolyn alone, that his parents weren't exactly stellar role models either, since the beautiful spanking scene in the castle appears to be the first time she was ever punished for doing wrong).
Overall this is a very quick read. The story peers into some darker corners, but nothing too graphic, and it all wraps up in a mostly happy ending (it would've been happier if Gwendolyn had gotten more of a comeuppance….). If you want to see more of Cat and Janet, the next book to read would be The Pinhoe Egg. I rate this book Recommended.


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It's here!! My first "official" filofax post on Coffee & Literature. So exciting!!! I know you are just as excited as I am, right??? Thought so! 🙂 For my first "official" post I wanted to do a sort of introductory filofax/what's in my filofax post. I just got a new Personal Regency in Brown, and I LOVE it. But it does have a small ring issue on the third top ring, so sadly, I think it may be going back next week (Filofax, please work on quality control of rings!!!). But I do have a Compact Regency I can use until I get a replacement. Anyway…here's how I'm using my filofax at the moment.
Here's my beauty! I really love this filofax. The leather is so soft and has an ostrich type pattern on it. It lies COMPLETELY flat out of the box, which is one of my ideal filofax qualities.
Here's what you see when you first open her up: I keep my student ID (grad school), a cute panda gift card, some sticky tabs, a modeS4U business card, some random gift cards, and some of my business cards are tucked in the long pocket. On the clear flyleaf I've decorated it with some stickers–pandas (my favorite!!), sock monkeys, Bambi, Pooh Bear, etc. The pink glitter behind it is just a piece of card I cut into a divider.
Moving on…I've got some cute colorful star stickers and the personal filofax organizer stickers. I use the stars for blog posts and the organizer stickers for, well, what they're intended for. You can also see my sheet where I keep up with my washi tape to see what I've bought.
For my diary, I use month to view and week to view in 2 pages per week, cotton cream. I love the paper quality on the cotton cream. I use stickers and stamps and washi tape to decorate the inside of my diary. I love my Hello Kitty stamps!
I also keep a few A4 size sheets in my filofax for necessary purposes and I just fold and punch holes in these so they fit. Easy as pie!
And finally (I do have other stuff in there but it's rather boring) I have a clear envelope in the back where I keep vouchers, receipts, tickets, stickers, everything. Here is what is currently in the back pocket: neon arrows, Spongebob stickers, metallic star stickers, colored dots, a voucher for an Etsy seller, my ticket from Condoleezza Rice's speech at my university, and my Aerosmith/Cheap Trick ticket from last week (so much fun!!).
I hope you've enjoyed my little filofax tour! Let me know in the comments what you thought and also any other posts you'd like to see. I also have a YouTube channel that only has one or two non-filofax related videos on it now, so let me know if there are any videos you'd like to see, too! Happy planning!


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I recently came across a post written by a fellow mommy blogger about the issue of Vitamin D defenciency and nursing moms. I've been researching the Vitamin D topic since I began breastfeeding in 2003. Since I have moved out of the breastfeeding phase of my life (I loved, loved, loved breastfeeding my children and wouldn't trade the experience for anything but, can I just say that big boobs are highly over rated? I'm so glad to be able to run again). Anyway, since I've moved out of that phase in life, I don't think as much about it. But, I came across this post over at, Mommy Molecules and it has some great information in it.
Before I share that information. I want to be sure to say that Vitamin D deficiency is not only a problem for nursing moms but for 85% of Americans. I recently read an article that said that taking 2000 IUs of Vitamin D a day decreased the risk of certain cancers by up to 77%! It also improves energy and your immune system!
And Here is Muggs post:
Vitamin D and Nursing Moms
Today I got a call from my doctor about my blood test results for my annual physical. I am going to a new doctor who interestingly enough includes a Vitamin D test in the blood panel which I assumed I would ACE no problem living in Southern Arizona as I do and going outside for walks every couple of days. I was astounded when they told me I was Vitamin D deficient. The doctor told me to take 3000 units daily and get at least 10-15 minutes of daily sun on my arms and legs and then to get retested in 8 weeks.
Wow. How did that happen? I drink fortified milk, eat eggs, and get a good amount of sun, and take a prenatal vitamin. Hmmf. Well, I guessed it must be that I am still nursing our son who is now almost 15 months old but I thought I would do some research to share the recommendations for nursing moms.
I discovered that a study reviewed in 2007 found that nursing moms should be taking 10 TIMES the amount of Vitamin D Recommended Daily Allowance (RDA) for the average person. That amounts to 4,000 IU (International Units). The study researchers recommend a minimum of 2,000 IU but really push the higher dose saying up to 10,000IU is safe for up to 5 months just beware of toxicity of higher levels.
So, what are the health risks of low Vitamin D?
•Rickets (a bone deforming disease) if your baby is deficient
•Osteomalacia (bone thinning disorder in adults characterized by musculoskeletal pain, hmm, sounds familiar, that was a complaint of mine on this doctor visit)
•Heart Disease
•Diabetes in adults
•Flu infections
•High blood pressure
•Autoimmune diseases
Who is the most at risk:
•The elderly
•Extremely Obese individuals
•Exclusively breastfed babies
•Those who get little sun exposure (Did anyone hear new or working moms who only get sun going from the car to work and back to the car?)
•Those with darker skin as it is harder to absorb sunlight
So what can you do?
•Get sun on your bare skin (more effective in southern geography)
•Take a supplement
•Eat these foods: cod liver oil, fatty fish, eggs, beef liver (eww), mushrooms, some meats
•Talk to your pediatrician about a supplement for your child
Doing this research freaked me out pretty well but really made me realize how serious this can be and that you should never assume you don't have a deficiency of Vitamin D. (Another important nutrient for pregnant and nursing moms is Iron by the way. I stopped my prenatal vitamin for awhile after I had my son and starting having dizzy spells, etc.)
The links where I found the information above are here if you would like more information:
Thanks for sharing Muggs!
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
Vitamin D
2 comments:
- Jay said...
With Iron, I'm good --- too good. It's the whole reason I always get so stinkin' sick while I am pregnant, but I never even thought about Vitamin D. I do plan on TRYING to nurse this baby, so this was really helpful.
Thanks for sharing, Ma'am.
And yes, big boobs are over rated. So over rated.
- Mandy said...
My mom is going to love you even more than she already does...she has been harping on me about Vitamin D for some time now (Are you reading this Mom?!? I hear ya!!) :)
Have a wonderful Christmas.
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- Size
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As energy companies explore the Utica Shale play in Ohio and become established in the region, critical infrastructure is needed. As energy companies seek to tap into this valuable resource, a new state-of-the-art cryogenic processing plant is now part of the overall solution.
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Directions in Production Engineering Research – Part IV
- 13-10-2016
The concluding Part IV of this series attempts to connect capability and ambitions of next-gen manufacturing to next high of interconnected processes and enterprises engulfed through a systems approach, where connectivity of resources will be provided industry wide through internet. Call this as Industrial Internet of Things, which will be governed over the cloud using secure and public or private domains allowing control over distances for effectiveness, efficiency and sustainability.
This part attempts to model the paradigm of manufacturing in internet 4.0 era for which the essence is in system thinking, and the end objective a competitive strength at sustainability, quality and cost. The cloud manufacturing provides a complete transparency, maneuverability and control at high speeds and over long distances, and needs to manage advanced processes, materials and technologies. The essence is in managing zero-defect zero-effect as a Make in India paradigm.
Research is an all-essential operator of the creative technological development. In Part I through III of this series, we had discussed how the technology had transformed from a state of 'what' and 'how' (in mode 1) to beyond 'why' and 'how much,' and where we are now going, duly interspersed in the systematic integration-disintegration of technology phases. Due to multiplexing of technology triangulated with tools and techniques, and teams explored in their various forms and kinds makes the possible research directions more elaborate. Thus maintaining a parallelism of R&D versus innovation, the agenda with a five-step roadmap was slowly charted, necessary for graduation to world class and fit for world markets. In the meantime, the erstwhile production maturity of the style of Mode 2 integration with more of IT (information technology) and a superior knowledge infrastructure involving cyber physical systems displayed the onset of a newer fourth phase of industrialization, also called Industry 4.0 era. This paradigm is set to enter now into the second-growth phase in the four-part life cycle phenomenon with well known steps of initiation, growth, maturity and decline.
Albeit, the scenario is complicated; being in a glocal (global+local) domain as modelled in Part II, it encompassed a new knowledge infrastructure which is prompted by ambition and limited by capability. Thus it was emphasized that for want of realization of ambition and capability, enhancement of production research needs be pursued at a pace of {economy × competence}. In other words, due investment into production engineering research that assures a pay back through increase in overall productivity and competence, is maintained. Increasingly, manufacturers are partnering with research institutions, suppliers and end-users to make better and better 'smart devices' communicating through an array of sensors. On an organized front, several research projects have been funded, viz., by the European 7th Framework Program (FP7) to investigate important research issues. However, there are many challenges, both at the level of technology and research initiatives. Regarding the lacunae at the latter, Jukes and McCain foresee the operators as similar to that of a quarterback on a football team, who "…must be a futurist-throwing the ball not to where the receiver is, but to where the receiver is going to be. It is much the same with technology."
This is in line when viewed from the angle of value-chain perspective [6] which guides as to how a process is planned for future state performance. Pertaining to the trends in global manufacturing, Rodrigue et al. clarify that future developments in global manufacturing will be complemented by the enhancement of capabilities related to innovation, labor and infrastructures. On a similar note, Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, proposed a concerted Make in India initiative, with the slogan Zero-Defect Zero-Effect coined by India that calls for setting up production mechanisms wherein processes and products have no defects and the process through which product with zero adverse environmental and ecological effects are produced. Both deem to be founded on a country's production research and competence.
The Postulation of Industry 4.0 Era's from a Current Grounding
In the present Part IV, I begin by identifying the operational paradigms latent from the works of various contributors, suggestive so as to succeed the Industry 4.0 era, and by stipulating their strategic vision for a future state, and chart a roadmap for research accomplishments. The collated analysis of this exercise should point toward the understanding of competencies (Wesselink et al., who call them comparable constructs) for sustaining a growth phase into future manufacturing. or Wu feels any comparison of the strategic vision and current state leads to discovery of relevant suggestions for future work.
The identification is attempted using Joiner's triangulation again which calls for innovations in manufacturing competence, a culture and the system's thinking toward sustainability for meeting of customer needs at one end, and new wetware technologies in the other-Tools and Technique's segment. More tools include cloud manufacturing applications that enable flexibility with high speed over longer distances (HSLD) in processes and industrial control systems. The third apex of triad is facilitated by, say, innovations in manufacturing that provide for tomorrow's manufacturing for various competencies and comparable constructs. These futuristic requirements are disparate but yet connected as in the Joiner system, as shown in Fig. 1.
I seek this view of collated competencies, which has broadened in requirements, to reach and accomplish over the years to the present levels after having interfaced with plethora of scientific advancements as a part of current technological revolution. This evolution has been systemic in nature, with innovations as input and total sustainability as the objective. Thus the flow of this article is also guided by sustainability requirements for maximizing the achievement to ambitious levels in new industry 4.0 era.
While one chases such an ambition, further analysis of duly charted capabilities attained as in Fig. 1 may be made for ascertaining current directions of production research. Thus, for demonstrating a system view, I split Fig. 1 into three sets of triple constructs and centered it by agile (concurrent and outcome-oriented) duly linking from current manufacturing abilities through the ambitions deserved from Industry 4.0 paradigm. The split modeling of the constructs depicts a structure where each and every apex is governed by a systemic approach as one adores in the exemplar in Fig. 2 listed schematically at the top apex of each set. For example, the step of Systems Thinking in the middle (top) as a process connects Innovations & action as an input (on the left) to finish on other side with Competent sustainability as output on the right. This is made to presents the like of an input -> process -> output (IPO system), which form as reprimanded from previous data as in Fig. 2.
The operators connected in them are guided by manufacturing capability at input, with a goal of expediting response time to market changes (call it agile manufacturing), to achieve the Industry 4.0 ambition.
This is how manufacturing was defined by McKinsey & Company: "The new era of manufacturing will be marked by highly agile, networked enterprises that use information and analytics as skillfully as they employ talent and machinery to deliver products and services to diverse global markets." McKinsey uses a requirement 'Agile' which gets defined as "one engaged in high-volume, made-to order, arbitrary-lot-size production enabled by an information technology intensive flexible production capability." Such a connect of system paradigm that relies on customers' requirements is influenced by the characteristics of the manufacturing environment with the sustainability consideration, duly defining functional, cost, quality requirements vis-a-vis lead time of products and also personalization. Agile manufacturing has thus been advanced as the answer to the imperatives of a new industrial paradigm characterized by an unpredictably changing market environment. Bi posits a new challenge should emerge as to how an existing paradigm may be modified so as to accommodate the requirements of sustainability. Possibly, Fig. 3 provides a way out.
Back to system thinking, while reconsidering the paradigm of matching ambition and capability, as in Fig. 1 of Part 1 future of cars, and integrating with the IPO part of Fig. 2 above, a new type of 'P' (process) diagram is seen to evolve, duly controlled by controllable factors (as capability) and the noise (as ambition). Such a diagram is shown in Fig. 3. The difference is, however, envisaged in the substitution of noise versus the ambition. Noise is unwanted and the process is thwarted to keep it at bay. On the contrary, the ambition is generally chased for eventual realization. However, in case capability is lacking, for pursuance of present equilibrium and sustenance, the ambition may at times be kept at bay. But since the processes are subject to change and thus made conforming with respect to evolution, the directions of arrows has been realigned in the new transform.
Further, since the impetus of sustainability is ongoing, and shall continue to enforce innovation and action, the current technological revolution (CTR) must, therefore, continue to seek investments. To increase current capabilities in line with aspirations of industry, the system thinking may be progressed considering the limiters as operates the noise. The P diagram may therefore be considered in the new form connecting capabilities and ambition matched through system thinking, as in Fig. 4.
The aforesaid deliberation for upgradation of capability, in line
with mission (ambition), deserves a systemic approach. It is likely
to utilize a dynamic knowledge development and application framework.
Argue Harkins and Moravec the futures-relevant system's paradigms which
explain the knowledge frame work involves following salient:
1. Mechanical (conservatively repetitive) where knowledge is produced in controlled amounts accidentally (as a serendipitous discovery),
2. Evolutionary (self-organizing) produced continuously, but with unclear applications, and
3. Teleogenic (purposively creative); produced in great amounts, but judged according to fit with trends, designs, markets, and customers.
Harkins and Moravec define knowledge as decision-applicable transforms of information that serves in competitive national and global contexts, and is applied to manufacturing in present context.
The potentials of such knowledge multiplication for subsequent application to manufacturing were discussed in previous parts of this four-part series, and calls for an approach that promotes due grounding with competence. This requires a taxonomy defined by higher level thinking.
Further, for the sake of competence, envisaged for Indian manufacturing as in Make in India paradigm as proposed by Prime Minister Modi, it possibly calls for total competence in production and operation research. The implied objective is radically improving the way manufacturers thread processes and systems in the entire product value chain.
Grounding of New Design Directions for Manufacturing
Interpreting data from industry reports and case studies, Tennant et al. envisage: by 2020/2030 manufacturing will predominantly emphasize process and material efficiency toward complete sustainability solutions, as there will be financial and resilience drivers to do so. This, as a consequence, argues the National Science and Technology Council's (NSTC) plan documenting "the fundamental importance of advanced manufacturing" will improve the nation's competitiveness. The trend of use of high technology is already favored as evidenced in Fig. 5.
Figure 5 also warns of an erosion in output of American manufacturing. This is despite the manufacturing productivity growing by 32% between 2000 and 2010. Robert Atkinson, author of report of Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF) attributes this to non-replacement of low value-added manufacturing with high-value added manufacturing, or non-opening of new plants to replace closed ones. The trend is historic as well as global as other industrialized high-skill nations are also falling behind in manufacturing, he observes, while the demand has stayed robust. About plant closures since 2000 in USA, a net 60,300 manufacturing plants closed, or 15 per day. Such a trend helped invent a manufacturing versus making paradigm (e.g., Make in India), where the latter tends to provide design competencies, and benefits of innovation, and use someone else for manufacturing.
India has a similar story to tell, though the reasons may be different and varied. Those include thefts, envy, wrong costing, and lack of judgement for competitiveness. Of the factories that closed, many of them gave way to raising engineering colleges, marriage palaces, and shopping malls.
Exhibit I.Product Evolution in China
China has developed product know-how because of its strong position
within manufacturing as a location for outsourcing, and that knowledge
flows unidirectionally from outside into China to support related
innovation. A second opinion is that the information technology
revolution allowed the process of manufacturing to separate from the
innovation processes of R&D, product definition, design, branding,
and marketing. Neither of these link innovation and manufacturing,
however, which Nahm and Steinfeld argue is the key factor to China's
rapid advancement in manufacturing.
"Innovative manufacturing" takes into account the possibility of proprietary know-how and specialization (innovation) being embedded in the fabrication and assembly process itself (manufacturing). China's particular form of innovative manufacturing specializes in rapid scale-up and cost reduction, with globally unparalleled skills in simultaneous management of tempo, production volume, and cost. Consequently, production is able to scale up quickly and with drastic reductions in unit cost. This has enabled the nation to expand even in industries that are highly automated.
China, however, presents a stark contrast. From a dismal 5.7% of the global manufacturing output in 2000, China gained an impressive growth to a new high of 19.8% in 2011, the highest in the world. Nahm and Steinfeld assess the contribution of innovation in this growth is well attributed besides having accounting for the low production costs gifted in China's favor. Concur Breznitz and Cowhey; the product evolution occurs outside US (see China case in Exhibit I) call it Making, and the manufacturing as a service is undertaken in China. The gap in Fig. 5 also corroborates US's strength in innovating technologies. To correct this US looks forward to integrate innovations from universities and R&D labs (termed pipeline innovation) and the incremental innovations contributed by industry. The premise is supported by excerpts from Deloitte Manufacturing Competitiveness Index (Deloitte Council on Competitiveness 2010) which measures talent-driven innovation at 9.22 on a scale of 10, in contrast to manufacturing innovation at 6.62. This also corroborates that the contribution of academic and research bodies together is radical vis-a-vis the contribution of the industry. Further possibly, the lack of integration in academia's and industry's individual research directions corroborates the large gap shown in these two standards of 9.22 versus 6.62 respectively.
Such innovation-organization's reform is considered a prerequisite to implement new manufacturing technology paradigms. Endorsing 'Manufacturing Matters,' Helper et al. view manufacturing remains the major source of commercial innovations which is also essential for innovation in the service sector. Additionally, as manufacturing makes a disproportionately large contribution to environmental sustainability, it remains in line with larger objectives of sustainability management (SM). Thus, to abate the sustainability pressures, resorting to 'making' instead of 'manufacturing' is also one factor considered by industries for assigning manufacturing to developing economies characterized by cheap labor. 'Making' is hierarchically superior to manufacturing, given as Swamidas views the "Competencies derive less from specific technologies or manufacturing facilities and more from manufacturing infrastructure composed of people, management and information systems, learning, and organizational focus," who has the latter rule the roost.
An additional imperative that hides in between the gap connecting 'making' and 'manufacturing' is the schema which enables decision making over people, processes and machines (held by another manufacturer or in other country) is another character of the nextgen manufacturing.
Given that the interconnection between making and manufacturing is, therefore, of both soft and hard nature, this invisibility is set to be handled by the IT. Nikkei Monozukuri, in the foreword to 3-D Manufacturing Innovation, visualizes that it is the soft components that provide the "invisible competitive edge" in the business process. On the other hand, the hard contributors which are visible at the end of customer call for a product design development and improvement idea driving innovation at the making center.
Technically, manufacturing is dependent upon 3-P's, viz., the people, processes, production planning and control. On the other hand, making is more influenced by 3-D, viz. design, decision, and development; for the former, capacity and capability are important.
Thinking in Harrington Emerson's way the "overall equipment effectiveness (OEE), as proposed by Seiichi Nakajima in the 1960s, serves as the hierarchy of metrics used to evaluate how effectively a manufacturing operation is utilized toward Lean Mean and Green operations as a roadmap for sustainability management. It measures efficiency × availability (say of machine tools)".
Bi posits manufacturing systems become more and more complicated due to the expanded activities and the dynamics of manufacturing environment. Li and Mehnen count the stance of cloud manufacturing into the new scope. Since manufacturing is evolving as more of a mechanized transformational technique to add value precluding society's overall interests, I followed up how "Modern day ethical dispositions value dimensions of safety and environment more than quality and productivity."
Evidently, manufacturing is contemplated to improve the quality of life, which follows the basic tenets of the existence of the fact of "life." From the angle of value chain perspective also, while analyzing the trends in global manufacturing, Rodrigue et al. stipulate that future developments in global manufacturing will be complemented by the enhancement of capabilities related to innovation, labor and infrastructures. The schema calls for due flexibility in use, which are made concurrently available 24×7× 65 through cloud. While the soft and hard systems are encompassed along with the domain of cyber physical systems-a set of control equipment over internet-the system of cloud enables much higher capatence (capacity + competence) making manufacturing cost effective.
Cloud as a Pillar of Next-gen Manufacturing
Given that the manufacturing industry is the mother of a healthy society, and the making and the manufacturing getting matured in disparate directions, the interspersing of cloud technologies can facilitate a collaborative environment that can give people agility, more transparency, and empowerment. In a scenario when manufacturers are under constant pressure to increase accuracy, make processspeed a competitive force, they tend to capitalize on their internal intelligence and knowledge by incorporating every interaction between suppliers, distributors and services for improvement ." This is especially applicable to the high-tech, industrial and aerospace and defense industries, where rapid product lifecycles and short time-to-market schedules are commonplace.
Emphasizing on solutions, provides Kunio, "Solutions play an important role in transforming enterprise systems, contributing to cost reduction, agile deployment of services, expanded flexibility and improved productivity." Well, cloud is a logical facility that is built, hosted and delivered through a soft computing platform over the Internet. Cloud servers possess and exhibit similar capabilities and functionality to a typical facility, but are accessed remotely through the service provider. Their operability adapted to ''manufacturing'' by lateral thinking imparts it a logical (and natural) manufacturing competency environment in the new millennium, which is increasingly IT-reliant, agile, globalized, with high reliability, scalability and availability in a distributed environment.
Tipped as service-oriented, customer-centric, demand-driven manufacturing model, NIST defines cloud manufacturing as ''a model for enabling ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications, and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction." It leads to enhanced efficiency, reduced product lifecycle costs, and allows for optimal resource loading in response to variable-demand customer generated task in." This helps show an exemplar from the world leader in stainless steel sinks, water coolers and kitchen cabinets manufacturing- Elkay Manufacturing Company-which has successfully adopted and benefited from cloud computing technologies. Morley evaluates how cloud computing will benefit the manufacturing industry, when connected for full functionality in an agile way and with minimum resources being applied. Since cloud environment encompasses three core components, Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and finally Software as a Service (SaaS), these three components have the ability to replicate an entire behind-the-firewall IT environment within a hosted or cloud-based environment. Such SaaS type applications are adapted ERP system in the cloud, e.g., SAP with their business by design. As per a 2013 survey by Jutras of SaaS adoption in manufacturing, distribution and other industries SaaS-based applications are used by 22% of all manufacturing and distribution software, and will grow to 45% within ten years.
Being in a multidisciplinary domain that centralizes operation management of the services, cloud manufacturing provides a seamless, stable and high-quality transaction of manufacturing resource services. Thus it encompasses networked manufacturing, manufacturing grid (MGrid), virtual manufacturing, agile manufacturing, Internet of Things, and of course cloud computing. In a typical distributed manufacturing environment, the resource service provider and resource service demander have little coordination. On the other hand, in cloud manufacturing, collaborations can happen at a much broader scale encompassing enterprises or nations. It thus reflects both the concept of will integration of distributed resources" and the concept of "distribution of integrated resources". Sums up Industry Week "Connected enterprise is a foundation upon which to build great things," say, "The connected enterprise is not just a revolution, it's an evolution. It sure has the potential to bring make and manufacture to a new renaissance."
It was argued above that in order to be futuristic, the constructs of 'manufacturing for competence' journeying as the 'connects' in Fig. 2, through the three apexes are in need of continual progressing both in terms of action and innovation. In their editorial Sinderen & Almeida envisage that "In order to cope with legacy and heterogeneity problems and consequently with [a] lack of interoperability, considerable research efforts have been spent on integration of otherwise isolated systems either within the scope of a single organization or across organizational boundaries" ('a' has been appended to claim that there is a concerted devotion toward envisaged competencies). We continue with the grounding phase of postulation to Industry 4.0, and attempts to seek the 'state of art' in each of these directions/sub-directions. Firstly, we assess the state of innovations in IoT (Internet of Things) era and evaluate the role of cloud facility toward Industry 4.0, manufacturing state. The cloud is a resource set to harness global availability of goods and services effectively. After its due consideration and applicability to manufacturing, we then need to see how action and innovation should guide each of these initiatives, viz., quality and sustainability in marketplace. Understanding their role is an imperative, whereby manufacturing should prosper on the basis of the coveted competencies, which need a dedicated research in manufacturing (Make in India style), and productivity. For every activity, requisite sets of tools and techniques are required to resource the competency enhancement to meet both the designated objectives and for the 'state of art' in future wetware technologies, viz., HSLD-industrial control systems, and the thematic development of cloud to facilitate manufacturing in action and innovation.
Metamorphosing Cloud to One Compatible with Industry 4.0
Cloud-based strategies enable collating their own innate intelligence
and knowledge into every sales (including production) situation, to the
extent that these create epiphanies, such that these are quicker to
roll out, easier to customize and offer high adoption rates
across customers/ consumers. Columbus counts ways organizations use
cloud computing to revolutionize manufacturing, and free up time to
invest in new products by streamlining key areas of their business. The
ways in which cloud computing is exploited in manufacturing is tabulated
in Exhibit 2. Evidently, computer as a tool (controlling IoT), and
cloud as a resource help improve the platform which
facilitates industrial controls over high speed and long distances. To
win the future skills race and meeting challenge, it is vital to
understand how cloud technologies may span multiple sets
of manufacturing roles with advanced technologies and materials. A
report by US Council on Competitiveness posits the areas to harness
next-generation productivity using smart innovation and
next-gen manufacturing, advising:
1. Industry and labor should develop state-of-the-art apprenticeship programs for 21st century manufacturing, while
2. Creating national advanced manufacturing clusters, networks and partnerships, by
3. Prioritizing R&D investments, deploy new tools, technologies and facilities, and
4. Accelerating commercialization of novel products and services.
How all these options are facilitated is endorsed in Exhibit 2.
The idea of "capturing domestic competitive advantage in advanced manufacturing" is expected to promote investments therein with potential to transform industry. The Advanced Manufacturing Partnership Steering Committee proposed that a national advanced manufacturing strategy be established to secure a sustainable resurgence therein. This will put in place a systematic process to identify and prioritize critical cross-cutting technologies. The committee proposed to create a searchable database of manufacturing resources which support a key mechanism to access enabling infrastructure, toward which resourcing of IIOT and cloud would offer immense opportunities for a manufacturing renaissance. It is to ensure that one reacts quickly and efficiently to changing markets, recommends the 21st Century Manufacturing Enterprise Strategy report.
Exhibit 2.The 9 Ways Organizations Use Cloud Computing to Revolutionize Manufacturing
The need of competence, for surviving and prospering in a competitive
environment of continuous and unpredictable changes calls for agility
in providing customer-designed products and services. Bozdogan provides
way out. By gaining both conceptual traction and practical relevance, it enables viewing enterprises as purposeful complex adaptive systems. Bozdogan further recommends adopting the construct of enterprise architecture as a central conceptual framework toward developing effective future transformation strategies.
* The report on Emerging Global Trends in Advanced Manufacturing issued by Science & Technology Policy Institute (STPI – part of the Institute for Defense Analyses), foresees new frontiers in next 20 years. It visualizes an increasingly automated and data-intensive manufacturing sector that will likely replace traditional manufacturing. This report on Advanced Technologies Initiative by Deloitte and the Council on Competitiveness (Council) highlights five converging overall trends, viz.:
* Rapidly proactively changing manufacturing systems in response to customer needs and external impediments.
* Reliance on modeling and simulation in the manufacturing process.
* Ubiquitous role of information technology.
* Acceleration of innovation in supply-chain management.
* Fully supporting sustainable manufacturing.
* This will be met through emerging technologies, viz., additive manufacturing (aka 3-D printing) and biomanufacturing with a focus on synthetic biology. Report argues most of these trends are not simply technological, but have organizational and business-model focus as well. There is a renewed focus on integrated computational materials engineering.
On the technology side, the report notes major advances in two mature areas which are, say, semiconductor fabrication and advanced materials.
The fact is endorsed as in NIST reports the federal government chose
four categories of investment "to position promising, nascent
technologies for broad adoption and commercialization" as under:
1. Advanced materials
2. Production technology platforms
3. Advanced manufacturing processes
4. Data and design infrastructure
The appendix of the strategy also contains a skills competency model framework for advanced manufacturing. Li and Mehnen exemplify a near-real-life simplified shop floor that consists of typical manufacturing objects. It is a referenced infrastructure of ubiquitous manufacturing (UM), in which a smart gateway and a real-time work-in-progress management system based on smart objects such as RFID/Auto-ID devices and web service technologies are designed to improve the optimal planning and control of the entire shop floor. Manu Cloud is one cloud-based infrastructure that provides better support for on-demand manufacturing supply chains in automotive sectors and also in PV (photovoltaic) and organic lighting. Lu visualizes a hybrid manufacturing cloud to manage their periodic business goals, which are supported in the system by a set of private cloud, community cloud and public cloud and effectively manage access to the resource through self-defined access rules such that unauthorized companies cannot intrude. To manage these user-defined clouds, a cloud management engine is put forward which may use semantic web technologies as the main toolkit for managing resource access.
All such above-cited expansions in activities and dynamics of manufacturing environment make latter more and more complicated. But targeted quality-driven response strategy in cloud may help organizations reposition themselves to enhance the capability of operation systems and help organize for sustainable development. It is recommended that the resources at all levels must work together so that system reconfigurability can be maximized, cost-effectively. At lower levels, reconfigurability is managed by changing methods or adapting organizations. This is further achieved by aligning systems with resources which are software, wetware and hardware at higher levels extending to lower levels respectively.
The 'State of Art' In Competent Sustainability and Quality
Herrmann et al. (2004) perch that knowledge base of best practices help support systematic concept generation for effective platforms that may replace obsolete technologies and parts with newer parts, when the former get supported by design for manufacturing (DFM) tools to develop product platforms. They weigh the whole exercise as being prohibitively expensive. However favored by the analysis of system viability, and understanding of the application of 'design refresh planning' one can help quantify and reduce the cost of sustainment. Since viability is a measure of producibility, supportability, and evolvability of a system and it holds the key to achieving a competitive manufacturing business, it reliably acts as a metric for assessing both sustainability of a product and technology-insertion opportunities. Hence enterprises are increasingly becoming aware that their ultimate success is no longer built around a firm's capability and capacity to achieve efficiency, effectiveness, flexibility, and creativity, but on that of supply chain that facilitates meeting of the strategic objectives of sustainability management (SM).
Given that sustainability of economy, society and environment has
been recognized as a priority in fundamental engineering research, all
metamorphosis of people and of glocal value chain systems are poised
to undergo a transformation to change from its traditional management
approach to SM. The facilitation for transformation emanates from
deployment of quality management (QM) principles coupled with
sustainable development. I envisaged a zero-waste culture (as an
organizational) … paradigm to sustainable progression … to maintain it
in fitness mode. The solution is through a higherlevel cognizance to
win-win. That is, a system as a whole needs to be sustainable. Cohen
et al. assert sustainability metrics are quantifiable and easily
measured, but Bi, the metrics of sustainability have not
been quantified, and their residual relations to design parameters of a
manufacturing system
also need to be established. Jawahir et al. posit sustainable manufacturing is not just about manufacturing processes or the products, but form a multi-level approach on products, processes, enterprise and supply chain, as a system. This is in line with the ambitions of US Department of Commerce that sees sustainable manufacturing as the creation of manufacturing products that use materials and processes that minimize negative environmental impacts, conserve energy and natural resources, are safe for employees, communities, and consumers and are economically sound.
Bi endorses the requirements of sustainability are ubiquitous, with customers' requirements, governance and regulation, public values, environmental priorities, and increasing energy costs as major drivers. The shortage of natural resources, manpower, and energy are other issues asserting in favor of better qualte-k-nology initiatives, duly exemplified through direct consolidation of steel swarf and strategic development of, say, aluminum-lithium alloys. Obviously, knowledge and technology are no more important than quality. As Peter Drucker clarifies, "Quality in a product or service is not what the supplier puts in. It is what the customer gets out and is willing to pay for." Any 'loss a product imposes on society after it is shipped' owes to manufacturer, quips Genichi Taguchi. His definition of quality is aptly based on a more comprehensive view of the production system, which is another objective for next-gen manufacturing.
Necessarily, "advanced manufacturing enterprise begins with modeling and simulation [with] an agile supply chain capable of rapidly responding to both upstream changes such as resource prices and downstream changes such as demand." Shipp asserts "the smart factory utilizes sophisticated applications to optimize production efficiency and quality control." The future manufacturing systems, therefore, have to be evolved to meet emerging needs either from the customers or from the manufacturing environment. For example, Vaucouleur discusses the evolvability of enterprise systems, considering this quality dimension for enterprise resource planning systems in particular. The author puts forward the argument that anticipation of possible evolution is not a panacea and that mechanisms to cope with unforeseen upgrades to enterprise systems are thus required to enable evolvability. To face this challenge, the Vaucouleur proposed an aspect-oriented mechanism to customize an existing system. In connection with evolution of quality manpower, I argued it has "to go through an evolutionary process." Appraise Snee and Hoerl the "century of quality and job creation can be achieved through, among other advances, addressing the inevitable role of human variation in innovation." Similarly, my mapping for manufacturing people reads: "the Quality will … become a coercion. But first it has to become a compulsion, a norm, one preceded by Awareness…." And this awareness is implicit for all, customers, operators, and leadership et al.
The paradigm calls for a radical change. William laments: "We must begin to truly think differently about things we assume we already know quite well. Take customers, for example we think we understand them well already, but we don't. …we are at the dawn of a new era of customer understanding and [yet we are un] able to keep pace with changes in the nature of customer demand, and it is a field that is changing perhaps faster than any of us realize." Such behavior determines that the interfaced sustainability managed "quality-driven response strategy [sh]ould help organizations reposition themselves and enhance the capability of operation systems for sustainable development". The answer lies in a thorough reengineering of manufacturing competence. And it must be systemically invoked managing input and processes.
The Conscience of Action and Innovation
Until a group is constituted and agrees to take action, no innovation can result, especially when it triples while following as a helix as in Fig. 1. Thus there is "a strong need to address evolvability during the whole lifecycle of the system" [while] "obtaining better insights in and control over the corresponding processes." Visualize Sinderen and Almeida exhorting: "complex business processes have to be designed with performance and quality goals in mind." Especially in case any enterprise system is run at reasonable costs, action and innovation deserve a boost. To increase productivity, reduce costs, improve quality, and thus strengthen their position relative to competitors, it is implicit business and software development processes are strategically improved. Observe Vachhrajani and Vachhrajani "The innovation landscape is changing rapidly. Innovations are becoming more and more inclusive and rapid. They are transforming lifestyles and empowering customers to create value for them, as perceived by them." Implementation, however, requires a concerted action as "Organizations are made up of people and what counts is not their number but their brains, i.e., capability of exhibiting original thinking-call it a radically different way of thinking/organizing (or a paradigm)." In fact, it takes time and focused effort for enterprises to shift their paradigms and integrate innovation with action into their business strategies and cultures. In present case, "The paradigm of manufacturing therefore is the genesis of the factoring of customer requirements to yield high-quality low-cost products efficiently and productively to meet exacting schedules and priorities. The methods employed should be kind on raw materials and other resources, inputs impacting environment including energy, forest-wood, mined products, etc. The net manufacturing competence is thus a trade-off between the results in transformation obtained and the costs of achieving requisite gains". The modus operandi of combining action with innovation is attempted in a previous work around metal casting which sees "a newer paradigm over the road map for present growth, development, invigoration, idealization and innovation [that] sets in the enabling of forecasting the trajectory (direction) of metal casting industry. [Thus] An opportunity of correcting the technological progression and augmentation of competencies (while narrowing technological competitiveness) exists amply.
The writing on the wall is clear. And it is: (i) Develop your (manufacturing people), as a mother does to her child; (ii) Hurry up translating learning into skills, and technology into facilities; (iii) competency for innovation; and (iv) forecasting for meeting unprecedented challenges to maintain competitive positions. The Chak De! success envisages a strategic planning, and team work." For, a high-quality leadership is sought for "team work," training (thru trials) and transformation.
Teaming up to total transformation is invigorated because "on a higher hierarchical level, it is process capability in designing, reengineering design changes and product improvements and process rejuvenation for a great product! Teams provide a collaborative environment that can give people agility, more transparency, and empowerment through more effective collaborations. At a still higher level, it is the organizational competence to display a product worthy of that of being expected out of a world-class [organization], which requires a culture for innovation."
To help establish the foundation of an innovative culture, Marisa Brown, subject expert, product development and innovation at APQC, advocates the deployment of overarching cultural frameworks and well articulated strategies with transparency. She guides the recommendations as in Table 1 must be facilitated with due roadmaps and guide posts to provide direction and impetus for action and innovation.
Table 1.The Requirements for Grounding Innovation Culture in an Organization
Vouches William Troy, CEO, American Society of Quality, through his Introduction to 'The Future of Quality: Quality Throughout' argues: "The implications of almost limitless connectivity will change how we think about, and do, almost everything." Falling in line with the butterfly effect 'everything affects everything else,' feels Troy "This is not really true today, but it will be tomorrow. From the connectivity that is an essential part of smart manufacturing, …a crisis in one sector can be immediately identified, communicated, and reacted to in seconds, affect [ing] everything else, both for better and for worse."
This becomes an opportunity for action and innovation because as a consequence of the humans' unique ability that transcendences experience earned in one domain of life, and after extraction of lessons those get applied to an entirely different domain of their existence. Moreover, the phenomenon is systemic, and follows the modus operandi vide, say, a type of models schematically illustrated above. Breja et al. envisage that to gain competitive advantage through the systems approach, the business organizations need to master challenges like (1) maintaining strategic focus (viz., for a limitless connectivity), (2) matching strategic options with aspirations (say ambitions), for which it is necessary to (3) align the human resource to match their mission with that of the vision of their organization, and (4) to work for a total organizational transformation, or rather metamorphosis of people, processes, and even systems.
Meir Ben-Hur asserts their branching (of knowledge interface) laterally to a different application becomes much easier through applying similar tools and concepts, and this becomes the modus operandi of futuristic directions in production engineering research. Simultaneously, the research directions get wide spread. The [knowledge] life cycle concept exhibits advancement of [knowledge learning to] maturity phase with respect to people's awareness/perception or technology benchmarks, explored through Thareja's conceptual model for knowledge innovation. It is helped by a process of iterations right from the earliest stage of design which can not only provide early estimates of downstream metrics but also help link performance metrics directly to intended function.
Through a pre-production, production and post-production of
manufacturing organization and their interrelationships Nookabadi
and Middle proposed a conceptual generic quality management model
consistent with systems development processes, where the three phases
fulfill following roles as implicit requirements:
1. The preproduction phase should ensure that the product that has been developed meets customer requirements and can be produced fast, defect-free and reliable.
2. The production phase should ensure that quality and reliable product is produced fast and is made available when needed.
3. The post-production phase should ensure that produced quality and reliable product is delivered on time and defect-free.
In an environment devoid of boundaries in which companies gather to
achieve a common goal, any such initiative will significantly enhance
and strengthen the ability of following:
1. Shortening of product development cycle time; the product is rapidly brought to market.
2. Reduction of product costs.
3. Making customer-chosen options reconfigurable and upgradeable.
4. Offering individualized goods and services.
5. Enabling ever-changing models, with longer-lived product families.
6. Replacing mass markets by niche markets.
7. Forming flexible organizational structures in response to economic opportunities and challenges.
8. Enabling organizations to participate simultaneously in various forms of virtual enterprises.
As a corollary of knowledge-learning as above, "new information becomes part of a coherent conceptual structure," which should become our natural approach to systemically integrate knowledge for desired change in manufacturing-natural because it must address achievement of economic development, environmental performance, and social equity. Rodrigue et al. stipulates global manufacturing; from a value chain perspective it impacts on three fundamental pillars: factors, standards and costs. For making a paradigm work, these factors need be implemented simultaneously with sustainability for competence guided by zero-defect zero-effect. It calls for integrating quality and environment with sustainability management toward total business integration.
1. Development of manufacturing has transformed from competitiveness toward the aspirations of a beyond-competence phase called Industry 4.0, which may be approached by 2035/2039. It is presumed that even at such a stage, this will still remain at war with eco-sustainability / management. Hitherto, system thinking has successfully allowed incorporation of developments in allied fields, viz., IoT (Internet of Things) @ Industry 4.0, to enable through Industrial Internet of Things (IIOT), but has not really bridged the quick transfer of innovative products developed at universities and research laboratories.
2. Sustainable manufacturing has been a constant call for manufacturing renaissance within the last few years. But the impetus has grown into a large realization for the effectiveness of sustainability management's implementation. This is defined by the paradigm of zero-defect zero-effect-a made in India product.
3. Cloud is being used to service a manufacturing system. Multiple companies may deploy manufacturing resources for sustainable management over the Internet providing a cost-effective, flexible, and scalable solution to global manufacturing.
4. The need for system thinking has been postulated over the series, which advocates due action with innovation for success. System thinking may be invoked, practicing modeling and simulation. The end objective is a competitive
5. The practicality and implementation imperatives of cloud manufacturing in this work endorse that it has a large contribution to transform current manufacturing to Industry 4.0 era.
Dr. Priyavrat Thareja
Dean, Faculty of Engineering & Technology
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The music here is definitely hard to pin down. We get electronic dance music on a couple of the tracks.
Robertas Semeniukas hails from Lithuania and seems to have quite a following in his homeland. After hearing this album, I understand why.
The sound here is certainly unique. This music seems to blend modern alternative rock based stuff with country and more.
There is a real timeless quality here. This feels very much like it could have been released in the 1970s.
I have to say that I'm not a big fan of a lot of modern pop music. This new single from Sereda, though, is an exception to that rule.
This is an album that qualifies as a good set, but it seems that it could have been great.
I need to allay some confusion here. I've previously released another single from this artist.
In some ways this occupies a lot of the same territory as the music of Gary Wilson. It has a lot of the same charms.
Jim McCarty was probably the biggest claim to fame of this group. This band was formed after his work in the Yardbirds and the original version of Renaissance.
This three song EP is quite cool. The music here borders modern electronic progressive rock of acts like Porcupine Tree and The Pineapple Thief.
This is the second set from Jeri Silverman that I have reviewed. The mix of sounds here lands somewhere between folk music, pop rock and other rock sounds.
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