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Ever wondered how your smartphone works? Take a journey down to the atomic level with scientist Cathy Mulzer, who reveals how almost every component of our high-powered devices exists thanks to chemists -- and not the Silicon Valley entrepreneurs that come to most people's minds. As she puts it: "Chemistry is the hero of electronic communications."
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- Chemistry
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- Photolithography Chemistry Smartphones Telecommunication
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- Video
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Learners follow step-by-step instructions for creating a current-state map to identify how materials and information flow.
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- Manufacturing processes Production management Process control
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In this interactive object, learners examine the five problem-solving steps of Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, and Control. Some of the most common measures and tools are listed for each step.
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- Management
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- Production management -- Quality control Process control Six sigma (Quality control stard)
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The learner will explore the challenges commonly faced with remaining motivated and identify the obstacles that cause a loss of motivation.
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- Motivation (Psychology) Goal (Psychology)
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Students read how the Plan-Do-Check-Act Cycle is used in problem-solving and process improvement. In an interactive exercise, students organize process improvement steps following this model.
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- Management
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- Process control Industrial management
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Learners view examples of waste in an office environment and are asked to consider what they can do to eliminate or reduce waste in their own workplace.
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- Management
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- Work environment Organizational behavior Office management
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The learner will examine strategies for evaluating new ideas and accepting change that will enhance teamwork
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- Management
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- Teams in the workplace
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In a series of three interactive exercises, learners explore the relationship between process cycle time and defect detection, and between process cyle time and smaller batch sizes. The techniques of lean/JIT are applied to achieve the continuous improvement (kaizen) goal of reducing inventory by pursuing one-piece flow.
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- Management
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- Production planning Production control
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Students read how profits can be doubled with the elimination of only a fraction of the "waste" in a company's operation.
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- Management
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- Workflow -- Management Process control Production management
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In this animated object, users view how a kanban signals production to start.
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- Management
- Keywords:
- Production management -- Quality control Process control
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- Others