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Which inflation system is right for your lifejacket?

Updated for 2021: TeamO lifejackets now have four different inflation system options, which have different pros and cons depending on the type of sailing you are planning on. Here is a quick guide to help you decide which one is right for you.

We're always happy to talk, so there are contact details are at the bottom of this page if you still have any questions after reading the guide.

UML ProSensor Elite Firing Head

TeamO Ocean and Offshore lifejackets come with the ProSensor Elite Firing Head fitted as standard and are our preferred inflation system for these models because they perform consistently well and rearming kits are widely available at chandleries around the world. If you have cruised from Europe to the Caribbean and need to rearm your lifejacket when you get there you can bet you'll find a ProSensor Elite rearming kit stocked in a chandlery in one of the marinas or ports there!

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How it works: The UML ProSensor Elite firing head works using a water activated system. A compressed paper capsule is contained within the firing head. When water washes in to the bottom of the grey unit the paper pellet becomes wet, dissolves and releases a spring which fires the CO2 cylinder and inflates your lifejacket.

The firing head is designed so that water must travel upwards inside the unit to dissolve the paper pellet. It is then also protected by the lifejacket cover. This means that spray and rain will not cause accidental inflation.

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Above: Lifejacket CO2 cylinders before and after use. On the left you can see the new cylinder is sealed, there is no hole in the bottle at all. On the right the bottle has been punctured by the firing head, which means the CO2 has been used and the bottle must now be replaced when you service your lifejacket or rearm it for future use before you go sailing.

There are two colour tabs on the front of the unit to show the activation status as shown in the image above. When both the firing head and the CO2 cylinder show as green marks the lifejacket is armed and ready for use. Both of the tabs need to show green before you go sailing. If one of the tab marks shows red this indicates that the jacket is not armed and needs to be checked.

If the top tab shows red check this means that the CO2 cylinder needs checking. It may have been punctured and need replacing, or it may mean it is not screwed firmly enough in to the grey unit. You can unscrew the CO2 cylinder by hand and check the bottom of the bottle. If it has been punctured it will have a small hole in it, like Co2 cylinder on the right in the image above. This means that the bottle has been used and must be replaced.

If the bottom tab mark on the grey unit shows red check the bottom cap on the firing head. It may have been used and need replacing or it may mean it is not screwed firmly enough in to the grey central unit. To check, look at the bottom of the grey bottom cap. There are holes in it, as shown in the image below. Through the holes you should see a red plastic circle with a white paper ring surrounding it. If you can only see the red plastic circle then the cartridge has been used and needs replacing.

TeamO now also offers the UML Conversion Kit for the ProSensor Elite inflation system. This is a plastic cap that fits securely over the end of the ProSensor Elite head and converts the system from an automatic inflation system to a manual system. When this cap is in place the lifejacket user must manually pull the plastic toggle to inflate the lifejacket, it will no longer inflate automatically. Some sailors like to have the conversion kit onboard to allow them to switch easily between both the automatic lifejacket and manual lifejacket modes.

ProSensor Elite inflation systems expire after approximately 3 years and you should check the date which is printed on the side of the grey unit before you go sailing. We recommend that you service your lifejacket annually and replace the ProSensor Elite inflation unit at least 6 months before it's stated expiry date.

The TeamO Range: The UML ProSensor Elite is compatible with TeamO's Ocean and Offshore BackTow Lifejacket models.

Hammar Firing Head

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The Hammar inflation system looks very different to the UML ProSensor Elite, and it works in quite a different way too. The system is based on using water pressure to release a spring and inflate the lifejacket. Unlike the Pro-Sensor Elite described above, the Hammar firing head requires immersion in water to activate - the yellow cap shown above needs to be approximately 10cm underwater to achieve enough water pressure to activate the unit.

Water enters the unit from the spout shown on the top right hand side of the yellow unit. As water fills up inside the unit the pressure increases until it is high enough to trigger a pin inside the casing. Once fired the pin punctures the CO2 cylinder which is stored inside the bladder lung, causing the lifejacket to inflate.

The Hammar system is intended for use in more extreme sailing conditions where you are likely to be experiencing waves over the deck or similar - it is therefore often favored by sailors doing deep ocean and longer offshore sailing as it is less likely to inflate accidentally. Sailors with very wet boats or anyone working on the bow may also find that the Hammar inflation system is a good fit for them.

Hammar inflation systems expire after approximately 3 years and you should check the date on the front of the yellow unit before you go sailing. We recommend that you service your lifejacket annually and replace the Hammar inflation unit at least 6 months before it's stated expiry date.

The TeamO Range: The Hammar inflation system is only available in the TeamO Offshore BackTow model.

Manual Firing Head

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The UML Micro Manual Inflation units have recently been relaunched so that they are even smaller and lighter than previous editions. They are much more simple than the other systems described above - there are no paper pellets or water-pressure activated systems here. Simply pull the yellow toggle as shown above to inflate the lifejacket.

Manual lifejackets are sometimes favoured by sailors who want to have more control over when they do or do not inflate their lifejacket. If you have concerns about entrapment on boats (for instance, on multihulls in a capsize situation) you may want to have a manual lifejacket so that it does not inflate before you want it to. It may also be suitable for sailors who are sailing in more extreme conditions with a lot of water on deck or over the sailors, in situations where the water may accidentally inflate an automatic system.

Generally we advise sailors to seriously consider the automatic inflation systems first because they protect the wearer in the event that they end up in the water in a compromised situation (for instance, if they were not conscious when they entered the water). An automatic inflation lifejacket will inflate in this situation and the lifejacket is designed to turn you face-up in the water without any further action by the wearer, so that the Man Overboard/Person Overboard/MOB does not drown.

The TeamO Range: The UML Micro Manual lifejacket inflation system is available on the Offshore, Coastal and Inshore lifejacket models

UML Mark 5i Lifejacket Inflation System:

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The UML Mark 5i Lifejacket inflation system has recently been introduced to TeamO's lifejacket range when we launched the Coastal BackTow Lifejacket. It is currently available in the Coastal lifejacket model and will also be used in the Inshore and Micro models which will be launched in the next few weeks.

The UML Mark 5i firing head works on the same premise as the ProSensor Elite system described above. Water enters the black unit at the bottom of the firing head (see diagram above) where it encounters a paper pellet holding a spring in place. The water dissolved the paper pellet (usually within 3 seconds of immersion) and once this happens it fires a pin inside the casing which punctures the CO2 cylinder and triggers the lifejacket inflation. The firing head is protected from water by the lifejacket cover so it is unlikely that rain or accidental water splashes will accidentally trigger the lifejacket inflation.

There is also a plastic pull toggle on the side of the firing head. This is a safeguard in case the sailor wants to manually override the system and inflate the lifejacket at will. With a hard tug on the toggle the firing system can be activated and the lifejacket will inflate.

The UML Mark 5i firing head has a 3 year expiry date on it and TeamO advises that all sailors check the date of the capsule before going sailing. The expiry date of the UML Mark 5i lifejacket system can be found printed on the side of the black plastic cap. For pre-sailing checks we recommend you check the indicator status on the UML Mark 5i firing head. As shown below, if the system is armed and ready for use there is a green coloured mark on the firing head unit. If the lifejacket has been inflated and/or the firing head is inactive the mark will show red instead. If you see this red mark this means you need to check the Co2 cylinder and the black cap - they may need replacing. To check this, please follow the same instructions as above for the ProSensor Elite.

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To conclude, we're including a simple infographic below to show which TeamO lifejacket model carries which inflation system.

Still have questions about which inflation system is best suited for your lifejacket? Drop us an email with details about your sailing plans and we can help advise which option would be best for you: info@teamomarine.com

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Such spending is likely to grow overseas, too. In the U.K., the Tories—the conservative party—spent at least $2 million last year on Facebook, according to a BBC report. The company has increased the size of the team that serves government and political campaigns, whose roles include selling ads to politicians. And the company is presently advertising for more staff to help politicians around the globe.

Such facts help shed light on Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s efforts to quell the controversy after Gizmodo posted a report saying Facebook employees manipulated trending topics to deemphasize conservative topics. The Guardian reported separately that Facebook hand-curates its selection of trending topics and relies heavily on 10 mainstream news organizations to decide what’s most important.

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Since cobots can safely work alongside humans, companies are finding use in placing them on the frontlines of customer engagement. Cobots are popping up in a wide range of customer interactions, including aiding at the check-out line, cleaning stores, and performing inventory management. Home improvement store Lowes released its autonomous retail robot "LoweBot" in 2016 to roam store floors and help customers with simple questions in a variety of languages, as well as assist with inventory monitoring on shelves. This engagement with customers is allowing the bot to answer more routine questions -- freeing up employees to help with more complex questions, requests and tasks.

In 2017, Walmart deployed shelf-scanning cobots in 50 locations around the US. These cobots autonomously roam store floors to check inventory, but they can also scan shelves to make sure prices are correct or stock is in order, or identify misplaced items. Earlier this year, Walmart added about 1,500 floor-cleaning custodial bots that are able to autonomously scrub store floors, check for spills, or alert staff to larger messes. These cobots carefully avoid contact with humans in order to perform their function -- to clean up spills throughout the day.

Increasingly, customers are finding robots roaming grocery stores. The regional grocery store chain that owns Stop & Shop, Giant Food Stores and Giant Martin's stores, introduced "Marty the Robot" to roughly 500 stores in 2019. This retail robot roams the store looking for spills, food in aisles or misplaced items, and issues an alert to human workers for any intense clean up.

Taking it to the streets

In addition to engaging and interacting with customers inside stores, companies are taking the use of cobots to the streets to help with delivery. The pizza chain Domino's piloted a pizza delivery bot in select locations around the world to deliver hot pizza to customers within a one mile delivery radius of select stores. The company partnered with bot developer Starship Technologies to build delivery bots that aid with the problems that arise during the last mile delivery. Moving at a leisurely pace of 4 mph and with the ability to hold four or five pizzas, these bots can safely roll down city sidewalks any time to deliver pizza to hungry customers.

Similarly, retail juggernaut Amazon continues to look to artificial intelligence for ways to lower prices and improve delivery times. To help meet growing consumer demands, Amazon has been experimenting with a variety of autonomous and semi-autonomous vehicles such as drones and robots to deliver packages to customers.

Earlier this year, Amazon announced the Scout sidewalk delivery robot, with an initial deployment for deliveries in a neighborhood near Amazon HQ in Seattle. These autonomous robots are able to navigate sidewalks while avoiding pedestrians and curious animals that it encounters. The bot is weatherproof to allow it to operate in rainy Seattle conditions. Most importantly, Amazon is exploring Scout as the answer to the growing problem of package theft by forcing the package to stay locked at a customer's doorstep until they arrive home to unlock their package from the bot.

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By introducing cobots into retail operations, companies are looking to streamline labor, save on costs and deliver a more consistent customer experience. With the slow introduction of robots that have cognitive capabilities, companies will naturally rethink their usage of human labor for a number of activities. Many stores are already using cobots for mundane, dirty, or repetitive tasks in order to free human workers up for higher value tasks such as engaging with customers and answering more complex questions. Like most AI, cobots are currently only used in streamlined, programmable robotic tasks and have not yet ventured into creative or sentient work.

As with all things, adoption and widespread acceptance of technologies such as retail robots takes time. People need to feel comfortable, not threatened, by these bots in their work and retail environments. While cobots do not have the expertise and specialty knowledge of their human counterparts, they will be used to augment existing human retail operations and provide additive value to simple tasks and requests.

With increased use and acceptability in the enterprise, cobots can be a permanent, widespread augmentative tool for helping humans perform work more efficiently.

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There is a fourth game on the Zelda edition of the Game & Watch; that is an adaptation of Vermin, one of the original Game & Watch titles. It is a whack-a-mole mini-game with Link as a playable character. The handheld also contains an interactive clock and timer.

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How can you get your learners speaking more in class?

Of the four language skills, speaking is the most important in terms of managing day-to-day classroom interaction. We deliver most of our classes through spoken information, and it is through a spoken activity that learners can show what they can really do with the language they are learning from moment to moment in class.

However, in most mainstream educational settings, class sizes and time constraints tend to preclude the development of authentic listening and especially speaking skills work.

This article will explore the reasons for this, and some ways that teachers can ensure that their students are getting sufficient practice in this important area.

Why is speaking an underdeveloped skill?

There are several reasons why speaking is given low priority in mainstream language education. Firstly, many schools focus on skills to pass exams, and take a product-focused view of language education.

Speaking is not always tested through grammar

As speaking is typically not tested as thoroughly as other more empirical aspects of language such as grammatical and vocabulary accuracy, reading comprehension and accuracy of written language. More time is devoted to these areas in order to improve test results at the expense of holistic language development.

Secondly, speaking skills are quite difficult to define, and therefore make purposeful.

The accuracy of a spoken repetition drill is relatively easy to assess, but the effectiveness of a discussion, debate or extended opinion is a greyer area.

Many teachers focus on the accuracy of information, which can be quantified and criticised easily, while missing the features of spoken language which make up effective oral communication.

Speaking is not always tested through grammar

Thirdly, the typical mainstream classroom environment is not designed to facilitate much-spoken interaction.

Desks are often arranged individually, or in pairs facing the same direction, with the focus of the class is often on the teacher rather than the interaction between students, and class sizes of 30+ makes it difficult for a teacher to monitor what is happening during mass speaking tasks.

This makes for a less-than-ideal setting for useful speaking work to take place.

Finally, many cultures of education dismiss free-spoken interaction as academically unimportant compared to paper-based skills such as reading comprehension, essay writing and formalised listening practice.

Authentic, communicative tasks such as discussions, debates and flexible speaking games are seen as just a bit of fun, and therefore not academically valid.

If this view is shared by teachers and students alike, the motivation to speak is greatly reduced, and less focus is given to speaking development.

Speaking as evidence of learning

Far from being invalid to the learning environment, student speaking is probably the best indicator of what learners are taking on from their learning experience. Speaking is performed in real-time, spontaneously and (usually) without long periods spent planning the message.

This means that when students are asked to speak out using examples of any grammar, vocabulary or comprehension points, they are showing the teacher their real level of understanding at that moment.

This is invaluable for teachers, as they can then respond appropriately, ensuring that all students are brought to the same level of comprehension and usage throughout a lesson.

Student taking lead in a classroom

Calling on students to lead answer sessions, asking students to discuss their answers before final confirmation of ideas, and responses to elicitation of new language may be daunting for students at first, but as they get used to this routine as a method of co-managing the interaction in the classroom, they will quickly take more opportunities to speak with confidence and participate more openly.

A couple of weeks of awkward silences is worth persevering with, in order to develop a more interactive environment where speaking work is incorporated into all areas of your students’ language study.

Also Read: 5 Tips for teachers to sharpen their listening skills

Keeping speaking work purposeful

The everyday use of student talk as a teaching tool in this way is one teacher-focused purpose for bringing more spoken interaction into the classroom, but if you want to develop students’ speaking skills specifically, start by defining what specific speaking outcomes you are working them towards.

Different genres of speaking involve different language features; presentations are very different from debates and discussions, we expect different types and lengths of turns from participants, and different types of development of ideas as the speaking event unfolds.

Defining a clear genre for speaking activity helps to add purpose to student talk. By planning the component features that we expect from this genre, defining language points which relate to the topic, and leading practice sessions in these areas before the final event are all good techniques for genre-based speaking.

Speaking as a language skill

The production of any form of spoken language involves a lot of different types of cognitive, socio-linguistic, strategic and linguistic processing, whether we feel it or not as we communicate.

The enormous and complex language skill of speaking needs to be broken down into its component sub-skills, which can be worked on one by one to develop effective use of appropriate language in specific settings.

Students should be made aware of which aspects of their speaking they will be working on, and how they will be asked to do this during a lesson. Moving from the type of speaking event they will practice to the specific skills that the activity will develop is a good technique, as outlined below:

Language Features and Skills Chart

Sub-skills of speaking – teaching ideas, activities

There are many simple speaking tasks which can be used to teach these sub-skills of speaking before students are asked to perform in larger activities. Some simple preparatory games and tasks are outlined below:

Extended speaking: timed, topic-based speaking

Students are given a topic card containing 4-5 keywords that they must use in a timed speech on that topic, for example: Traffic private cars, public transport, pollution, congestion.

  • Students must speak for an allotted time (2-3 minutes) on that topic, using those keywords in groups.
  • Listeners in the group must guess the keywords according to the speech given.
  • Extend the time to extend the production of language, incorporating more of the students’ own ideas as they work to fill the time.

Paraphrasing and circumlocution: Just a minute

Based on the famous Radio 4 quiz show, students must speak for as long as possible on a random topic (spoons, baseball, dogs…) without repeating any single word, hesitating with silence, or outright lying.

  • Listeners keep their ears open for these and shout when they hear something wrong.
  • A correct challenger picks up the same topic where the first speaker finished, until one minute is up – whoever is speaking at the end of the minute wins the round.

Structured discussion: Function cards

Helping students to organise their ideas with speaking function cards can give more structure to interaction.

  • Put a pile of cards with functions such as ‘agree’, ‘disagree’, ‘example’ or ‘contrast’ in the middle of a group of students, who have to discuss a given opinion for five minutes.
  • The first student introduces the topic, and the next student picks up a card, continuing the discussion with that kind of information.
  • Go around the group until everyone has spoken or the cards have all been taken, and the last student must summarise the discussion as they had it.

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Whichever activity you use to practice these sub-skills, remember that students need input into what kinds of phrases they can use to do these jobs, and how to pronounce them, before they attempt the task. These are practice activities, so do not teach students how to structure their ideas, they just provide a framework for them to start putting this into practice.

Good luck planning and delivering more focused speaking activities with these in mind!

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81 Migrant Children Separated from Families by US Since June

  • Thousands of children have been separated from their families and guardians at the U.S. / Mexico border this year alone.

    Thousands of children have been separated from their families and guardians at the U.S. / Mexico border this year alone. | Photo: Reuters

Published 6 December 2018

U.S. President Trump's immigration policies have exposed a profound disregard for the lives of people fleeing life-threatening conditions in Central America.

The administration of United States President Donald Trump separated 81 migrant children from their families at the U.S.-Mexico border since late-June, according to government data obtained by The Associated Press.

Caravan Couple Awaits Asylum Bid After Son's Birth in US

Amid a crackdown on illegal border crossings, an executive order was issued in June to halt the practice of separating families, AP reports.

However, despite that order and a federal judge’s ruling that followed, immigration officials are still allowed to separate children from their guardians in certain cases -- such as in instances where serious criminal charges have been brought against a parent, if government officials have concerns over the health and welfare of a child, or if there are medical concerns.

The executive order released June 20, 2018, refers to non-U.S. citizens immigrating to the U.S. and asylum seekers as “aliens,” and states that “the Secretary shall not, however, detain an alien family together when there is a concern that detention of an alien child with the child’s alien parent would pose a risk to the child’s welfare.”

Immigrant rights groups and advocates fear that parents are being falsely labeled as criminals because the decision comes down to government authorities.

Of the 76 adults separated from the kids, 51 were criminally prosecuted -- 20 for unspecified reasons, 10 had ties to gangs, nine were hospitalized, four had warrants for extradition, and two had orders of removal due to previous immigration violations, according to the government data secured by AP.

Violence and poverty in Central American countries have driven families to risk everything as they seek a better life elsewhere. | Reuters

“Separations are rare. While there was a brief increase during zero tolerance as more adults were prosecuted, the numbers have returned to their prior levels,” said Katie Waldman, a spokeswoman for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) which manages U.S. immigration enforcement.

Waldman said the government’s data demonstrated “unequivocally that smugglers, human traffickers, and nefarious actors are attempting to use hundreds of children to exploit our immigration laws in hopes of gaining entry to the United States.”

However some 170 cases since April, in which children and their guardians were considered unrelated, and then subsequently separated, could very likely have included cases in which relatives did not have proof of their relationship on hand. Many people fleeing harsh conditions of poverty and violence in Central America, a region that has been historically disrupted by U.S. economic and political interference, leave in a hurry without formal documents.

Rejoining families is all but impossible in many cases. When the policy took hold, there was no designated system that would track parents and children. This was partially due to a procedure in which after 72 hours children are turned over to the Department of Health and Human Services, which is a separate agency.

Currently, thousands of migrants who make up an exodus from Central America, mostly from Honduras which has one of the highest rates of homicides with impunity in the world, are awaiting entry to the U.S. in makeshift shelters in the Mexican border town of Tijuana where they are subjected to xenophobia, sparked in part by the town’s mayor.

The migrants, families, unaccompanied minors, pregnant women, and infants among them have traversed thousands of miles along a harrowing journey in the hopes of reaching the U.S.

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NEW YORK — McDonald's chief executive officer has left the company after violating company policy by engaging in a consensual relationship with an employee, the corporation said Sunday.

The fast food giant said former president and CEO Steve Easterbrook demonstrated poor judgment. McDonald's forbids managers from having romantic relationships with direct or indirect reports.

In an email to employees, Easterbrook acknowledged he had a relationship with an employee and said it was a mistake.

"Given the values of the company, I agree with the board that it is time for me to move on," Easterbrook said in the email.

In this Wednesday, July 26, 2017, file photo, McDonald's CEO Steve Easterbrook is interviewed at the New York Stock Exchange. McDonald's said Sunday, Nov. 3, 2019, that Easterbrook has stepped down after violating company policy by engaging in a consensual relationship with an employee.

McDonald's board of directors voted on Easterbrook's departure Friday after conducting a thorough review. Details of Easterbrook's separation package will be released Monday in a federal filing, according to a company spokesperson. Easterbrook was CEO since 2015.

The board of directors named Chris Kempczinski, who recently served as president of McDonald's USA, as its new president and CEO.

McDonald's is planning to file its third-quarter earnings report on Tuesday, and the leadership transition is unrelated to the company's operational or financial performance, the company said in a news release.

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5 Quality Techniques You Should Know in Quality Planning.

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Quality planning, according to EN ISO 9000:2015, is: "Part of quality management directed at defining the quality objectives and the necessary execution processes and associated resources to meet the quality objectives."

In quality management, clearly defined goals are often required in order to be able to establish a sustainable quality management system (QMS). Defining these goals is the task of quality planning, which develops them with the help of quality techniques. Quality techniques include all tools, procedures and methods that are used in the field of quality management and quality assurance at all product creation levels to solve specific problems. 5 of these quality techniques are explained briefly and clearly below.

APQP – Advanced Product Quality Planning.

Advanced Product Quality Planning , also known as Product – Quality Preplanning and Control Plan, was developed by Chrysler, Ford & Feneral Motors Supplier Quality Requirements Task Force. The APQP comprehensively describes which steps and activities are to be carried out prior to the start of production in order to ensure a high-quality product for the end customer. It ensures that the product to be realized actually meets the customer’s requirements. This means that quality is already defined during the definition and development of the product and not just during production.

FMEA – Failure Mode and Effects Analysis.

Failure Mode and Effects Analysis is a method that deals with the early detection and treatment of potential failures. In the context of quality management, FMEA is used to minimize the risk arising from the occurrence of errors. Faults in processes, systems and designs are analyzed and measures are derived to detect them as early as possible.

The risks recorded are evaluated and countermeasures are subsequently formulated. By addressing sources of error at an early stage, the foundation of a sustainable strategy for error prevention is pursued instead of inefficient error elimination.

The most important factor of the FMEA is the risk priority number (RPN), which makes a statement about the probability of occurrence of a defect and its consequences. This is formed from the probability of occurrence (A) and detection (E) of a specific defect and the significance of the consequences of the defect (B). All factors can assume values between 1 (error to be assessed as low) and 10 (error to be assessed as high). This results in maximum result values for the risk priority number (RPN) between 1 and 1000.

Depending on the respective area of application and purpose of the FMEA, a distinction is made between system, design and process FMEA. These build on each other, but have completely different issues. The classification helps to reduce the complexity of a problem and to maintain an overview.

Phases of an FMEA:

The execution of an FMEA is teamwork. The exact distribution of tasks & deadlines are jointly determined and continuously tracked by the project manager.

Phase 1: System analysis (system & functional structure)

Phase 2: Error analysis

Phase 3: Risk assessment

Phase 4: Optimization

The aim of FMEA is to detect a defect at the stage of occurrence and to determine the risk of defect on the basis of RPN. With the help of the FMEA methodology, the risk can be reduced. The success of an FMEA depends to a large extent on the team skills and motivation of the employees.

Advantages of an FMEA include:

  • Universal applicability of the method
  • Uniform and simple documentation
  • Improvement of the object
  • Increase of productivity
  • Exchange of information between departments is promoted
  • Quality awareness of the employees is increased

Disadvantages of an FMEA include:

  • High effort
  • Costs for errors that did not occur cannot be specified / can only be specified with difficulty
  • Evaluation of individual criteria takes place intuitively on the part of the employees

QFD – Quality Function Deployment Methode.

Quality function deployment (QFD) or quality function representation is a method of quality assurance. The aim of the method is to develop products that the customer really wants. The method was originally developed by the Japanese Yoji Akao.

As a method, QFD should help to convert market and customer requirements into technical characteristics in order to derive a product or service from them within the company. Customer requirements for products or services can be named by external as well as internal customers (production, assembly). The derived requirements must be taken into account in every area and every phase of service production.

The application of the QFD method is based on the following questions:

What is expected/demanded? (Demands?)
How? How do we meet the requirements (characteristics)?
How much? What value should the WIEs have? (Characteristic values?)
Why? How well do competitive products meet the WIEs?

The objective of QFD is to simplify the problematic translation of the “voice of the customer / Voice of Customer” into technical-constructive specifications and characteristics on the basis of early team-oriented cooperation between product planning / development, manufacturing and marketing / sales.

As a result, the QFD supports, among other things:

  • the customer orientation in product planning
  • the combination of different fields of knowledge, such as marketing & development
  • the structuring of complex interrelationships
  • the identification of interconnections and interrelationships
  • simulations and stability studies
  • the communication within the development team
  • the creation of a common and transparent
  • setting of objectives and definition of measures for action

Benefits of QFD:

  • Simultaneous task execution
  • Increase of internal communication
  • Increase in employee & customer satisfaction

Disadvantages of QFD:

  • vHigh effort
  • Long lead time until the first (countable) successes are achieved
  • Risk of confusion if the “House of Quality” is too large

Benchmarking is a frequently used method for the systematic comparison of products, services and processes within the company or with other companies. The aim is to sustainably secure or increase competitiveness.

Improvements can be achieved through comparisons. Benchmarking is based on a comparative evaluation of product features, organizational procedures, coses, manufacturing processes, etc. The aim is to find out design information, facts and figures, and to adopt the best approaches. Benchmarking means to locate hidden potentials in one’s own company. Making one’s own position in the competition transparent helps to reduce internal resistance against changes in one’s own company and to increase the motivation of the employees.

The benchmarking process can be divided into 5 phases:

Phase 1: Goal Setting

Phase 2: Internal analysis

Phase 3: Comparison

Phase 4: Information evaluation, action

Phase 5: Implementation

Types of benchmarking.

Internal benchmarking:

  • Comparison of companies that all belong to the same group. Related processes, e.g. customer service in different companies, are examined.

General benchmarking (external):

  • Comparison of business units and processes that have commonalities despite different industries.

Functional benchmarking (external):

  • Comparison between companies from different industries. However, the partner companies should have similar characteristics in terms of size of the company, form and structure.

Competitive benchmarking (external):

  • Comparison with the “best” in the industry or with the direct competitor. Fairness plays a major role in this form of benchmarking, as both companies want to benefit.

Benchmarking is a continuous process. Internal benchmarking takes place within a company. External benchmarking, on the other hand, is more difficult to implement.

Benchmarking results.

  • Information on the status and performance of competitors and the “best” in an industry.
  • Identifying performance levels that a company needs to achieve in order to compete. (Where & how big are the own deficits?)
  • Pointing out characteristics to reach such a performance level (learning from others)
  • Through continuous benchmarking, the company develops into a learning organization.

Weaknesses in connection with benchmarking are difficult to formulate. There are rather problems or obstacles to overcome, e.g. finding suitable partners or building trust to disclose internal data. However, the following problems can be formulated:

  • Internal BM: Limited perspective
  • External BM: Difficult data collection; Time-consuming analysis; Disclosure of information

Poka Yoke.

People working in an automated production process that requires strong concentration easily make mistakes. The systematized, repetitive activities tempt people to underestimate them. It becomes clear that forgetfulness and inattention are responsible for the majority of error types. This realization is the starting point for Poka Yoke, because no human being is capable of completely avoiding unintentional mistakes.

Poka Yoke is an error-oriented, simple technical aid that forces the correct insertion of a workpiece, e.g. by means of a device. The device can be designed in such a way that, for example, an asymmetrical part can only be inserted in one direction, i.e. Poka Yoke is design-related and prevents incorrect actions by the employees.

Types of Poka Yoke.

The check

Prior to the work process, the proper preparation of the process must be checked. When inserting a part, for example, a switch can confirm or signal the correct position of the workpiece

The monitoring

The process sequence must be constantly monitored. A sensor can, for example, count the correct number of holes in a drill plate and issue a warning signal (signal tone, signal lamp) in the event of non-compliance.

The self-examination

After the operation, the worker checks that his work is free of defects. This can be done, for example, using a template.

Examples of Poka Yoke.

Hard Poka Yoke: avoid mistake or mishandle

  • Form fit
  • Sizes
  • Tape stop
  • Same material
  • In-process testing with shutdown

Soft Poka Yoke: Detect mistake or wrong action

  • Colors
  • Checklists
  • Lights
  • Horns, buzzers
  • Notes

Poka Yoke is a simple method based mainly on mechanical conditions. The main advantage of Poka Yoke is the shortening of the quality control loop. Incorrect actions are detected at an early stage, so that defects do not occur in the first place. This keeps quality costs low. The disadvantage is its limited applicability.

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Lubbock, TX -- A single-vehicle crash in the area of Lubbock, TX left one unidentified person with injuries Friday, May 12, 2017.

The incident took place on North Loop 289 around 2:58 a.m.

According to the report, one person was injured in the incident. The victim was transported to a local hospital with injuries describes as "serious."

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Fresh Food Supply Chains: Challenges and Innovative Business Concepts

Our food should be fresh, healthy and visually appealing. And bananas, cheese and frozen pizza should be transported and stored as sustainably as possible on their way to the shelf. What new responsibilities does this present to companies, and how should they tackle them? Professor Sandra Transchel, co-founder of the Food Research Group at KLU, shares the results of a workshop that addressed this question.

Most people expect flawless fresh foods at low prices in the refrigerated section when they go shopping. What challenges does this pose to the actors in the supply chain across production, transportation and distribution?

Sandra Transchel:The greatest challenge at present is high inflation and the extreme price increase it entails, especially for energy costs. This affects the cost of refrigerated transport and of course the storage of fresh products. For both companies and end customers, the effects are palpable. In the near future we’ll have to expect continued price increases. Especially on fresh foods, which make high demands on continuously functioning cold chains.

Another challenge is the conversion to more sustainable supply chains. Here, we consumers need to rethink too. Whether carrots, broccoli or cucumbers meet certain standard measures shouldn’t factor into one’s purchase because this leads to unnecessary food waste. If nothing else, it’s the high expectation of always finding “flawless fresh food at low prices” and the tremendous competitive pressure in food retailing which make it so difficult to transform food supply chains sustainably.

KLU teamed up with three universities in Munich, Bayreuth, and Eichstätt-Ingolstadt in April and organized a workshop online for students and others. What were the objectives?

Sandra Transchel: The workshop is the prelude to a small series in which we’re pursuing two key objectives. For starters we want to create a platform for exchange between science and companies regarding the challenges particular to food supply chain management and their possible solutions. We’re interested in the extent to which research can contribute. The second aim is integration into teaching. Students at all participating universities benefitted from four practice-oriented talks and a subsequent panel discussion.

What were the main results of the exchange?

Sandra Transchel: The company representatives agreed that in addition to broad practical training, through various internships, for example, a solid base in scientific education is also necessary. As data preparation and analysis are no longer a choice but a necessity at many companies, solid skills in mathematics and statistics are increasingly important.

Prof. Alexander Hübner at TU Munich and I had the idea for a workshop series a year and a half ago. Prof. Christian Fikar at the University of Bayreuth and Prof. Heinrich Kuhn at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt joined later as co-organizers.

How can science contribute to solving practical problems in supply chains for refrigerated fresh foods?

Sandra Transchel: The effects of the covid pandemic and the war in Ukraine have led to many companies having to reorganize their supply chains. In many areas you can see a trend towards shorter, even regional supply chains. And the food sector won’t circumvent the shared work of continuing to scale down carbon emissions and transportation routes. The question, however, is what exactly that can look like.

How can regional food supply chains, which consist of many small independent suppliers, become more sustainable and competitive? How do logistics networks have to be designed and organized to ensure the availability of food in times of crisis? Or how do innovative concepts, such as vertical farming, influence food supply chains and logistics networks? There’s an array of research questions like this which we’re currently working on in our Research Group Food Supply Chain Management at KLU.

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Philipp Bächle, Director Supply Chain & Procurement, HelloFresh: Supply Chain Management & Procurement are one of the toughest areas to keep food services/groceries shipping up running. But it's also fun to solve the most pressing problems in the day-to-day work. (LinkedIn profile)

Dr. Benedikt Schulte, Strategy & Quality Management Logistics/SCM, REWE Group: Given today’s volatile environment, logistics and supply chain management are of increasing importance in fulfilling our customer’s rising expectations. In this context, we employ operations research and machine learning in order to help improve efficiency, increase performance and minimize food waste. (LinkedIn profile)

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Is anyone in the NFL a top contender? Week to week, it seems as if we have no idea.

Cam Newton is back in Carolina and feeling good!

How did we get here? The Patriots are already back on top in the AFC East.

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Ulysse de Pauw will race for RAM Racing this weekend at Donington Park after the team parted ways with Jamie Caroline in the #15 Mercedes.

The team released a statement on Twitter, “Caroline and RAM Racing have parted ways after a difference in opinion over how best to move forward with this year’s programme. The team would like to wish Caroline the best of luck with his future racing activities.”

While there will be disappointment that the team has to bring in a new driver mid-way through the season, de Pauw is a driver that many believe is a future star in the racing world and the British GT campaign will be alongside his already successful spell in GT World Challange Europe.

Speaking on the official British GT website, de Pauw said “I’m both really excited and really grateful to be joining RAM Racing for the next British GT round at Donington Park. I know British GT well from watching it during my two years in BRDC British F3. I know it’s a great and competitive championship and I’m really looking forward to being a part of it.

“I haven’t tested the Mercedes-AMG GT3 before, but I know it will be different to the Ferrari 488 I’m racing in Fanatec GT. Being front-engined the driving style will be different for the Mercedes-AMG, and I’m expecting it to have a lot of front-end grip, which should actually suit my natural driving style. I’m confident I can get up to speed with it quickly and RAM’s record with these cars speaks for itself.

“I’m looking forward to working with John because it will be my first experience of Pro-Am racing. It should be great racing alongside him, sharing coaching tips and advice, trying to help him improve his own driving while learning a lot of new things myself. Not only does it give me a lot more track time across this year, but it also allows me to experience a new style of racing, and I love a new challenge.”

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When Kids Realize Their Whole Life Is Already Online

Googling yourself has become a rite of passage.

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For several months, Cara has been working up the courage to approach her mom about what she saw on Instagram. Not long ago, the 11-year-old—who, like all the other kids in this story, is referred to by a pseudonym—discovered that her mom had been posting photos of her, without prior approval, for much of her life. “I’ve wanted to bring it up. It’s weird seeing myself up there, and sometimes there’s pics I don’t like of myself,” she said.

Like most other modern kids, Cara grew up immersed in social media. Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube were all founded before she was born; Instagram has been around since she was a toddler. While many kids may not yet have accounts themselves, their parents, schools, sports teams, and organizations have been curating an online presence for them since birth. The shock of realizing that details about your life—or, in some cases, an entire narrative of it—have been shared online without your consent or knowledge has become a pivotal experience in the lives of many young teens and tweens.

Recently a parenting blogger wrote in a Washington Post essay that despite her 14-year-old daughter’s horror at discovering that her mother had shared years of highly personal stories and information about her online, she simply could not stop posting on her blog and social media. The writer claimed that promising her daughter that she would stop posting about her publicly on the internet “would mean shutting down a vital part of myself, which isn’t necessarily good for me or her.”

But it’s not just overzealous mommy bloggers who construct a child’s online identity; plenty of average parents do the same. There’s even a portmanteau for it: sharenting. Almost a quarter of children begin their digital lives when parents upload their prenatal sonogram scans to the internet, according to a study conducted by the internet-security firm AVG. The study also found that 92 percent of toddlers under the age of 2 already have their own unique digital identity. “Parents now shape their children’s digital identity long before these young people open their first email. The disclosures parents make online are sure to follow their children into adulthood,” declares a report by the University of Florida Levin College of Law. “These parents act as both gatekeepers of their children’s personal information and as narrators of their children’s personal stories.”

Preschools and elementary schools often keep blogs or upload photos of kids to Instagram accounts and Facebook pages so that working parents can feel like a part of their kids’ day. Sports scores are recorded online, as are notable moments from after-school clubs.

When Ellen, an 11-year-old, finally decided to Google herself, she didn’t expect to find anything, because she doesn’t yet have her own social-media accounts. She was stunned when she found years of swim scores and sports statistics on the web. A personal story she wrote in third grade was also published on a class website with her name attached. “I didn’t think I would be out there like this on the internet,” she told me.

Ellen said that while she didn’t find anything too sensitive or personal, she was frustrated that all the information about herself had been posted seemingly without her consent.

“No matter what you do, it’s out there for people to know,” she said. “Even if you’re just swimming—the rest of the world will know. My meet records are out there; now people know I’m a swimmer. [The internet] tells you where all the swim meets are, so that would probably tell my general location. It tells you my school. Parts of my story online were in Spanish. Now people know I speak Spanish.”

Allie was in fourth grade the first time she Googled herself. Like Ellen, she wasn’t expecting to find anything, since she doesn’t yet have her own social-media accounts. Google turned up just a few photos, but she was shocked that there was anything at all. She immediately became hyperaware of the image her mother was building for her on Instagram and Facebook. “My parents have always posted about me,” she said. “I was basically fine with it … then I realized I was making an impression and I was an actual person online too, through her page.”

Not all kids react poorly to finding out they’ve been living an unwitting life online. Some are thrilled. In fourth grade, Nate searched his name and discovered that he was mentioned in a news article about his third-grade class making a giant burrito. “I didn’t know,” he said. “I was surprised, really surprised.” But he was pleased with his newfound clout. “It made me feel famous … I got to make new friends by saying, ‘Oh, I’m in a newspaper [online],’” he said. Ever since, he has Googled himself every few months, hoping to find things.

Natalie, now 13, said that in fifth grade she and her friends competed with one another over the amount of information about themselves on the internet. “We thought it was so cool that we had pics of ourselves online,” she said. “We would brag like, ‘I have this many pics of myself on the internet.’ You look yourself up, and it’s like, ‘Whoa, it’s you!’ We were all shocked when we realized we were out there. We were like, ‘Whoa, we’re real people.’”

Natalie’s parents are stringent about not posting photos of her to social media, so there are only a handful of photos of her out there, but she yearns for more. “I don’t want to live in a hole and only have two pics of me online. I want to be a person who is a person. I want people to know who I am,” she said.

Cara and other tweens say they hope to lay down ground rules for their parents. Cara wants her mom to tell her the next time she posts about her, and the 11-year-old would like veto power over any photo before it goes up. “My friends will always text or tell me, like, ‘OMG that pic your mom posted of you is so cute,’ and I’ll get really self-conscious,” she said. Hayden, a 10-year-old, said he realized several years ago that his parents used a dedicated hashtag including his name on photos of him. He now monitors the hashtag to make sure they don’t post anything embarrassing.

Once kids have that first moment of realization that their lives are public, there’s no going back. Several teens and tweens told me this was the impetus for wanting to get their own social-media profiles, in an effort to take control of their image. But plenty of other kids become overwhelmed and retreat. Ellen said that anytime someone has a phone out around her now, she’s nervous that her photo could be taken and posted somewhere. “Everyone’s always watching, and nothing is ever forgotten. It’s never gone,” she said.

In order to help kids navigate these waters, more elementary schools are rolling out digital-literacy programs. Jane, a 7-year-old, said she learned about her internet presence partly from her school in an online-safety presentation. Her father has also warned her about social media and lets her approve photos before they go up.

Still, Jane—who, like all the other kids in this story, spoke to me with her parents’ permission—worries. She’s too young to navigate the web on her own, but she feels that a lot of what’s out there on the internet about her is beyond her control. “I don’t really like how people know things about me, and I don’t even know them,” she said. “Thousands and millions of things are out there maybe.” Andy, also 7, is always on the lookout for people who might take unflattering photos of him. He once caught his mother taking a photo of him sleeping and, another time, doing a silly dance. He immediately told her not to post it on Facebook, and she obliged. He felt the photos were embarrassing.

Some legislatures are also getting involved. In 2014, Europe’s highest court ruled that internet providers must give users the “right to be forgotten.” Under the ruling, European citizens can petition to have past damaging information, including crimes committed as a minor, hidden from Google search results. And in France, strict privacy laws mean kids can sue their own parents for publishing intimate or private details of their lives without consent. In the United States, however, teens and tweens aren’t offered such protections, and many simply walk on eggshells. “You definitely just have to live cautiously,” Ellen said.

Jaime Putnam, a mom in Georgia, said she has started to be more mindful of the fact that many of her kids’ friends don’t yet know how much information about themselves is out there. Recently she saw on social media that one of her child’s friends got a puppy. She brought it up when she next saw him, and he looked at her, horrified. He had no idea how she had learned that seemingly private information. “It made me realize these kids don’t know what’s being posted all the time,” she said. Now she’s careful about what she reveals. “It kind of feels like you’re maybe crossing a line telling them everything you know about them.”

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