My experience of multiple contracting gigs for hospitals is that unless the expenditure can be linked directly to day-to-day patient care you pretty much have no chance of getting funding approved for any initiative, even when it will reduce operational expenses.
The biggest challenge would be making the touch panels I think.
I'm trying to think if any panels which weren't wall mounted were significantly larger than an iPad. Out local shopping mall has touch screen directories which are bigger than our 120" TV. I don't think getting large format touchscreens will be that much of an issue if they can pay for them.
Weta workshop had a number of 'One Ring's for sale that were made to the same specifications as those used in the film. I bought one for my husband a few years back. At the time they were out of gold rings in his size and we bought a silver ring. He recently got it electroplated with gold, it kept the engraving beautifully.
Not getting into an argument regarding the quality of candidates available for direct hire vs outsourcing, but sometimes there are other issues at hand.
I used to work as a consultant for an large outsourcing division of a name brand company. We specialised in providing office automation services for back of house functionality which was often not core business for our customers.
In many respects the biggest beneficiaries of our services were not the companies but the staff we took over. Most of them were in what the companies considered dead end jobs with no career paths (how many people get promoted to management from the mailroom in reality these days). We gave them training, mentored them for team leader and management positions, gave them the opportunity to be promoted to higher performing teams based at other clients' sites or at our own offices running training or process improvement initiatives. One of the most important things it did was give them a peer group they could network with and relate to.
Quite a few of the head office staff in operations roles had come from staff we'd acquired taking on mailrooms, printrooms or imaging centres. They had the same opportunities to apply for positions as people who had come in as graduates directly.
Most of our clients wouldn't have known an efficient performing printroom operator vs a poor one. They had no incentive programs to motivate them. They provided no opportunities for improvement. We had performance benchmarks, tailored job descriptions that went beyond 'other duties as required', offered training and peer review.
Large IT consultancies CAN offer similar benefits. I'm not saying that all do, or even try to. But done right there can be benefits to both the client and the staff.
I used to wear a lot of pastels right up to the point where I started working as a draftsman, at which point I started transitioning to mostly blacks - it doesn't show the ink as much. While I no longer draft for a living, I've kept the colour black as a wardrobe staple.
While interesting in concept, you would need to decide what size die to use, what the subset of options you were rolling against, how you handle overflow issues (more options or more die outcomes). It would probably have been less mental activity just to make a choice in the first place.
That said, when I am having trouble deciding something, I sometimes flip a coin, generally 'forcing' a decision is sufficient for me to articulate what I actually want to do - especially if it comes to overruling the coin decision because it's my least preferred option.
Whereas for a very long time I would end up throwing out perfectly good food because anytime I tried to plan ahead with the shopping, when it came time to make dinner, my husband was never in the mood to eat what I had in the house, he always wanted something else and would complain until I made it.
Things have improved slightly of late since he started trying to lose weight and has become slightly less food obsessive.
You joke, my husband used to do L2 corporate internet support and was on the phone to a customer on time when the police raided the premises - from memory he put it on speaker so the rest of his team could hear it.
Mr Hotline was my friend when doing Mac tech support in the 90's. 90% of people who brought their computers in to be rebuilt (usually after a HDA failure or virus) had 'lost' their discs but would scream blue murder if you couldn't restore the machine to it's previous working condition with all the previous apps.
Australia is largely populated by immigrant cultures from all around the globe, the vast majority of which are clustered in our major cities down the eastern seaboard. We don't have nearly the racial violence issues that the US has, nor is our homicide rate even close per capita. Gun crime is certainly lower, but that mostly because we got rid of most of the guns.
Reinforcing racism is not the answer to stamping out violent crime. Stamping out racism however may reduce the triggers for violent crime within your communities.
I would definitely second the suggestion to get a specialist on board earlier rather than later, it will save you time, money and headaches in the future.
WRT the raised floors suggestion, that was my first thought, but then I started thinking about the possible weight of the CNC machines (you haven't specified size). Possibly the shop floor should have channels in it for rerouting data and power as required over time, with platform flooring over the top of it. It could also potentially be used to run underfloor HVAC vents and take advantage of convection principles.
I would consider opportunities to being natural light into the workplace, and supplemental task lighting should be fully configurable given the precision of CNC equipment. High lux values are required for that kind of QA, but daylight is great for morale.
Again, coming back to the potential weight of the CNC equipment, look at your access paths for getting old machines out and new machines in. If data and power through the floor is going to restrict positioning of plant too much, look at an overhead grid system with cable drops, there's great umbilicals available for doing supported drops that can look quite attractive and are designed to be moved if required - better than fixed ducting.
Intentionally or not, the typical management response to saying you could complete your allocated tasks in 4-5 hours daily is to give you more tasks.
To some extent the trade off of being paid a higher salary is supposed to be that you are more efficient at the task and can generate a greater output than someone on a lower salary.
Being paid by output make working more efficiently beneficial for the worker (ability to generate more income in the same amount of time). Being paid hourly make working more efficiently beneficial for the employer (more output from a fixed number of hours).
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My experience of multiple contracting gigs for hospitals is that unless the expenditure can be linked directly to day-to-day patient care you pretty much have no chance of getting funding approved for any initiative, even when it will reduce operational expenses.
I always took it to mean "Grindstone, a type of millstone used to grind grains such as wheat".
Could you possibly found anything more offensive to say?
LMGTFY Judaism and Islamic religions have strictures about keeping the body intact, which some sects take to mean autopsies are forbidden.
I wonder if there was life on Mars during that period.
The biggest challenge would be making the touch panels I think.
I'm trying to think if any panels which weren't wall mounted were significantly larger than an iPad. Out local shopping mall has touch screen directories which are bigger than our 120" TV. I don't think getting large format touchscreens will be that much of an issue if they can pay for them.
Possibly he was mocked by his imaginary friends, making it all that much more humiliating.
Weta workshop had a number of 'One Ring's for sale that were made to the same specifications as those used in the film. I bought one for my husband a few years back. At the time they were out of gold rings in his size and we bought a silver ring. He recently got it electroplated with gold, it kept the engraving beautifully.
Not getting into an argument regarding the quality of candidates available for direct hire vs outsourcing, but sometimes there are other issues at hand.
I used to work as a consultant for an large outsourcing division of a name brand company. We specialised in providing office automation services for back of house functionality which was often not core business for our customers.
In many respects the biggest beneficiaries of our services were not the companies but the staff we took over. Most of them were in what the companies considered dead end jobs with no career paths (how many people get promoted to management from the mailroom in reality these days). We gave them training, mentored them for team leader and management positions, gave them the opportunity to be promoted to higher performing teams based at other clients' sites or at our own offices running training or process improvement initiatives. One of the most important things it did was give them a peer group they could network with and relate to.
Quite a few of the head office staff in operations roles had come from staff we'd acquired taking on mailrooms, printrooms or imaging centres. They had the same opportunities to apply for positions as people who had come in as graduates directly.
Most of our clients wouldn't have known an efficient performing printroom operator vs a poor one. They had no incentive programs to motivate them. They provided no opportunities for improvement. We had performance benchmarks, tailored job descriptions that went beyond 'other duties as required', offered training and peer review.
Large IT consultancies CAN offer similar benefits. I'm not saying that all do, or even try to. But done right there can be benefits to both the client and the staff.
Dogs have owners. Cats have minions.
It's almost like you are implying they should be making phones out of turtles...
Rooting means something entirely different in Australia, I was a bit taken aback by the subject line when it scrolled past my screen.
I used to wear a lot of pastels right up to the point where I started working as a draftsman, at which point I started transitioning to mostly blacks - it doesn't show the ink as much. While I no longer draft for a living, I've kept the colour black as a wardrobe staple.
Having had a CT scan in the last month, I was asked to fast for 2 hours beforehand. YMMV
While interesting in concept, you would need to decide what size die to use, what the subset of options you were rolling against, how you handle overflow issues (more options or more die outcomes). It would probably have been less mental activity just to make a choice in the first place.
That said, when I am having trouble deciding something, I sometimes flip a coin, generally 'forcing' a decision is sufficient for me to articulate what I actually want to do - especially if it comes to overruling the coin decision because it's my least preferred option.
Whereas for a very long time I would end up throwing out perfectly good food because anytime I tried to plan ahead with the shopping, when it came time to make dinner, my husband was never in the mood to eat what I had in the house, he always wanted something else and would complain until I made it.
Things have improved slightly of late since he started trying to lose weight and has become slightly less food obsessive.
As my husband likes to point out, that's not how the make cmd actually works.
You joke, my husband used to do L2 corporate internet support and was on the phone to a customer on time when the police raided the premises - from memory he put it on speaker so the rest of his team could hear it.
The fact that it even got a publishing contract made me weep. If I want to read psuedo-BDSM soft pron, I'll read Anne Rice's Beauty series again.
Mr Hotline was my friend when doing Mac tech support in the 90's. 90% of people who brought their computers in to be rebuilt (usually after a HDA failure or virus) had 'lost' their discs but would scream blue murder if you couldn't restore the machine to it's previous working condition with all the previous apps.
Australia is largely populated by immigrant cultures from all around the globe, the vast majority of which are clustered in our major cities down the eastern seaboard. We don't have nearly the racial violence issues that the US has, nor is our homicide rate even close per capita. Gun crime is certainly lower, but that mostly because we got rid of most of the guns.
Reinforcing racism is not the answer to stamping out violent crime. Stamping out racism however may reduce the triggers for violent crime within your communities.
Arrrrgggghhhh, must resist correcting so many deliberate errors.
I would definitely second the suggestion to get a specialist on board earlier rather than later, it will save you time, money and headaches in the future.
WRT the raised floors suggestion, that was my first thought, but then I started thinking about the possible weight of the CNC machines (you haven't specified size). Possibly the shop floor should have channels in it for rerouting data and power as required over time, with platform flooring over the top of it. It could also potentially be used to run underfloor HVAC vents and take advantage of convection principles.
I would consider opportunities to being natural light into the workplace, and supplemental task lighting should be fully configurable given the precision of CNC equipment. High lux values are required for that kind of QA, but daylight is great for morale.
Again, coming back to the potential weight of the CNC equipment, look at your access paths for getting old machines out and new machines in. If data and power through the floor is going to restrict positioning of plant too much, look at an overhead grid system with cable drops, there's great umbilicals available for doing supported drops that can look quite attractive and are designed to be moved if required - better than fixed ducting.
Intentionally or not, the typical management response to saying you could complete your allocated tasks in 4-5 hours daily is to give you more tasks.
To some extent the trade off of being paid a higher salary is supposed to be that you are more efficient at the task and can generate a greater output than someone on a lower salary.
Being paid by output make working more efficiently beneficial for the worker (ability to generate more income in the same amount of time). Being paid hourly make working more efficiently beneficial for the employer (more output from a fixed number of hours).
I had a nerf gun when I was a BA for a Y2K COBOL team for an insurance company. It was given to me for keeping the developers in line. :)