The Revolution Lean Six Sigma 4.0

Industry 4.0 makes a factory smart by applying advanced information systems and future-oriented technologies. Today, thanks to the application of the most innovative digital technologies offered by the new Industry 4.0 paradigm, in this Fourth Industrial Revolution, there is a significant “evolution” of many methodologies of Continuous Improvement, such as, e.g., Lean Six Sigma (LSS). Most of the tools of Lean Six Sigma relies on data to know in depth problems: data is necessary to drive any process improvement. The key issue is based on data integrity and on real time data. The aim of this paper consists of proving the efficiency of the so called “Lean Six Sigma 4.0”. This paper deals with engineering approaches, here applied in HealthCare environment, in order to optimise the services supply process and to reduce the waste of resources (human and/or material), while improving the Quality of Experience (QoE) of the patients. Indeed, it has been proved that the huge growth in the HealthCare costs is due to inefficient use of available resources and not-optimised service processes. Applying Lean Six Sigma 4.0 it is possible to reduce HealthCare costs, improving at the same time the QoE perceived by the patient

Student Activism Against the Neocolonial, Neoliberal University: Exploring a Sociology of Absences, Emergences, and Hidden Fires

The struggle for cognitive justice is an integral part of decolonising education: it seeks to destabilise the grip that Western thought has over the world and pay more attention to other forms of knowledge that have been deliberately marginalised as part of the colonisation agenda. Aotearoa New Zealand is certainly no stranger to debates and struggles regarding the decolonisation of education. The highly revered work of Linda Tuhiwai Smith and the recent collection by Jessica Hutchings and Jenny Lee-Morgan, are just two examples of scholarship that have made significant contributions to scholar-activism in this area. To extend these debates further and link them to a parallel set of critiques about the neoliberal university, I employ the tools developed by the Portuguese sociologist Boaventura de Sousa Santos, who encourages us to engage in both a ‘sociology of absences’ and a ‘sociology of emergences’. The discussion hinges on an example of the recent student protests in South Africa, dubbed by some as the ‘fallist movement’. The student uprisings highlight the mutually constitutive nature of neoliberalism and racism and underscore the need to frame the global struggle against the neocolonial, neoliberal university as an intersectional one. Given that learning from one another’s struggles is a critical aspect of social movement praxis, the use of this example aims to encourage a ‘north-south’ dialogue between scholar-activists in Aotearoa New Zealand and South Africa. &nbsp

The Revolution Lean Six Sigma 4.0

Industry 4.0 makes a factory smart by applying advanced information systems and future-oriented technologies. Today, thanks to the application of the most innovative digital technologies offered by the new Industry 4.0 paradigm, in this Fourth Industrial Revolution, there is a significant "evolution" of many methodologies of Continuous Improvement, such as, e.g., Lean Six Sigma (LSS). Most of the tools of Lean Six Sigma relies on data to know in depth problems: data is necessary to drive any process improvement. The key issue is based on data integrity and on real time data. The aim of this paper consists of proving the efficiency of the so called "Lean Six Sigma 4.0". This paper deals with engineering approaches, here applied in HealthCare environment, in order to optimise the services supply process and to reduce the waste of resources (human and/or material), while improving the Quality of Experience (QoE) of the patients. Indeed, it has been proved that the huge growth in the HealthCare costs is due to inefficient use of available resources and not-optimised service processes. Applying Lean Six Sigma 4.0 it is possible to reduce HealthCare costs, improving at the same time the QoE perceived by the patient

Kitchen Rag: Spaces of Food, Memory and Conviviality in Modern and Contemporary Art

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts of Bard College

Meaningful Encounters: Creating a multi-method site for interacting with nonhuman life through bioarts praxis

This research advocates a multi-method approach to bioarts praxis, reflexively and critically questioning the contemporary contexts that frame our engagement with nonhuman life. In doing so, the research aims to generate further community engagement with nonhuman life and the environment, and engender critical discourse on the implications of developing biotechnologies. Hegemonic institutions influence the way culture is produced and how information is constructed and understood. Habermas (1987) suggests that these institutions will inevitably influence the individual’s lifeworld as they shape lived experience through the process of systemic colonisation. I assert that this process also shapes how individuals engage with or understand nonhuman life. Through the implementation of three major projects the research aims to develop the capacity of bioarts in challenging such institutions by providing the opportunity for hands-on life science activities and real-time interactions with nonhuman life. The research by employing such methods aims to counter-act the impact of urbanised living and indifference to environmental conservation. Each aspect of the creative praxis provides a reflexive case study to establish the research aims and answer the research agenda. This includes my creative bioartworks, an art-science secondary educational course and a curated group exhibition, symposium and workshop. This research provides an alternative communicative approach to hegemonic institutions such as the mass media, scientific biotechnological industries and traditional gallery spaces (Shanken, 2011)

On Media, On Technology, On Life - Interviews with Innovators

The book 'On Media, On Technology, On Life: Interviews with Innovators' features thirteen artist-researchers whose artworks reconfigure the relationships between living bodies, microorganisms, tools, techniques, and institutions to ask new questions of life itself. When encountered for the first time, these are works that seem to challenge a conventional understanding of what artists and scientists do. Through the words of the artists themselves, these interviews explore what it means to spearhead innovative new partnerships able to create work that takes on a life of its own. By posing new questions at the interface between media, technology, and life, the book explores themes such as the life of multi-species bodies, the future of food security in the age of biotechnology, the microbial lives of historic archives, and the biohacker communities of the future. Together, they reveal how we are all actors in this theatre of life innovation

On Media, On Technology, On Life - Interviews with Innovators

The book 'On Media, On Technology, On Life: Interviews with Innovators' features thirteen artist-researchers whose artworks reconfigure the relationships between living bodies, microorganisms, tools, techniques, and institutions to ask new questions of life itself. When encountered for the first time, these are works that seem to challenge a conventional understanding of what artists and scientists do. Through the words of the artists themselves, these interviews explore what it means to spearhead innovative new partnerships able to create work that takes on a life of its own. By posing new questions at the interface between media, technology, and life, the book explores themes such as the life of multi-species bodies, the future of food security in the age of biotechnology, the microbial lives of historic archives, and the biohacker communities of the future. Together, they reveal how we are all actors in this theatre of life innovation

Increasing Floral Design Coursework Offerings Through Integration in University Art Departments and Identifying Floral Design Educational Backgrounds for Floral Studio Owners

Artists of various mediums use nature as a muse. To establish nature (flowers and foliage) as a medium, this study identified floral design as an art form, reviewed the introduction of floral design courses within university art departments, and determined floral studio owners’ preference in educational backgrounds of designer employees. Research methodologies included a meta-synthesis, focus group, and survey. The meta-synthesis sourced references (n=190) linking floral design to art and its integration in art departments. Results indicated that floral design is an art form because it contains meaning and is standardized (principles and elements of design and design process), and though floral design is interdisciplinary (science and art), higher education floral design coursework is typically limited to plant science departments (agriculture, horticulture, plant and soil science, natural resource and environmental science). The focus group (n=4) of higher education Texas Art Education Association members concluded that because the medium of flowers contain context and meaning, non-commodity floral designs are art and because members identified certain floral designs as art, coursework could be integrated into university art departments. The survey provided retrospective data from BBrooks Fine Flowers floral designs studio owners (n=106) in which results revealed owners believed floral design is interdisciplinary (primarily an art with agricultural science to lesser extent). Most designer employees attained a high school education level, but those designers with a higher education tended to have an arts degree and owners preferred designers to have an art to an agricultural degree