WE have a large material equipment fleet in a distribution facility. There are three general categories of equipment in use. I am trying to determine the utilization by work sampling, but to pin this down on an individual machine basis would take around 1,000 observation tours of this large...
I have a big "selling" job to do, to justify an approximate $8 million dollar investment for a sorter in a distribution firm. I have a very good rate of return, 22% after tax, if I use a 15 year time horizon, which is very much in keeping with the equipment capability and our own past...
I am looking for advice about a situation we face. We have customs inspectors at a site who check boxes and parcels of various sizes from foreign countries. We have encountered explosive objects at times, most of these being collector items such as old army ordinance like hand grenades...
I am considering a mass market measurement device which involves exposure of a semiconductor chip to outside temperatures, ranging from -30 degrees C. to +40 degress C.
The semiconductor would have to act as a microprocessor, having these needs:
1) Provide an accurate clock pulse with outside...