Profit Analysis for a Stochastic Model on a Cement Grinding System with Categorisation of Failure on the Basis of Cost for Its Nine Components

A stochastic model for profit analysis of a cement grinding system with failure in the nine important components namely; Belt Conveyor, Bucket Elevator, Separator, Roller Press, Diverting Gate, Process Fan, Cyclone, Ball Mill and Fly Ash System has been developed. The failure in these components has been divided into various categories on the basis of cost of repair/replacement. The fly ash system is a component in which a failure may not cause the failure of the complete system instantly. Data on time to repair and cost of repair/replacement for different types of failure have been collected from Shree Cement Ltd., Khushkhera, Rajasthan, India. The system has been analysed by using semi – Markov processes and regenerative point technique and various measures of system effectiveness have been obtained. Profit incurred to the system is obtained and graphs are plotted for the model for better interpretation of results. Keywords: Stochastic Model, Cement Grinding System, Categorisation of Failure, Measures of System Effectiveness, Profit Analysis

Comparative Analysis of Two Single Unit Systems with Production Depending on Demand

The present paper gives the comparative analysis between two models with production depending on demand. The two models (Model 1 and Model 2) considered are on a cable manufacturing plant with the difference of scheduled maintenance. Model 1 considers a single unit system with scheduled maintenance whereas Model 2 is without scheduled maintenance. Initially, the system is in operative state and demand is greater than or equal to the production. As variation in demand affects the production of system, consequently, the system needs to be in down state when the numbers of produces are more than those demanded. This model has been compared with the model wherein the scheduled maintenance is carried out. Comparative study with respect to the availability and the profit has been made between two models. Semi-Markov processes and regenerative point technique have been used to obtain various measures of the system effectiveness for each model. Keywords: Comparative Analysis, Single Unit System, Cable Manufacturing Plant, Variation in Demand,     Scheduled Maintenance, Profit, Regenerative Point Techniqu

Reliability and Availability Analysis of a Single Unit System with Varying Demand

This paper investigates the reliability and availability analysis of a single unit system in an industry, depending on the variation in demand. Variation in demand affects the production also and hence the system may go to down state when the units produced are in excess. The system in the downstate is made operative as soon as the produced units are less in number than those demanded. Using regenerative point technique, Mean Time to System Failure, the Availabilities in both the cases i.e. when demand is greater than or equal to production and when demand is less than production has been obtained

A Reliability Model on an APFC System with Three Stages of Working with Respect to Variation in Power Factor

The present paper deals with the reliability and profit analysis of an automatic power factor controller (APFC) system with three stages of working with respect to variation in power factor. Power factor may vary and result into three categories: controlled, partially controlled and uncontrolled power factor. Due to poor power factor system, many industries have to face many problems like electric loads, energy loads and fuse replacement like. So, there is need to accurate/ appropriate these problems. Study of APFC system, therefore, is of great importance. In the present study, the system is initially operative with controlled factor, then it may transit to the mode where the power factor is partially controlled and vice versa. Also, from the partially controlled power factor mode, the system may transit to a  mode of uncontrolled power factor and vice versa. If the system fails, there is need to detect the type of failure by inspection. The type of failure may be 'Fuse blown off' or 'Transformer burnt' or 'Programme problem' or 'output relay faulty'. After repair/replacement on failure, the system goes back to the same controlling mode as was existing at the time of failure. Various measures of system effectiveness have been obtained by making use of regenerative point technique. Graphs have been plotted to draw interesting conclusions related to the revenue per unit up time, loss per unit time during which the power factor remains uncontrolled/partially controlled. Keywords:- Automatic Power Factor Control (APFC) System, Controlled/Partial Controlled/Uncontrolled Power factor, Measures of System effectiveness, Regenerative point  technique

An Indian View of an Indian View: Durrell’s India

La dimension indienne de Durrel a toujours été un des thèmes de prédilection de la critique. Après tout, il est né en Inde. Ses deux parents eux-mêmes étaient nés en Inde et parlaient l’Indi et l’Urdu. Tout au long de sa vie, il évoqua l’Inde avec nostalgie. Il consacra de nombreuses pages à sa fascination pour l’Inde, dans sa correspondance, et l’Inde se retrouve dans la plupart de ses écrits. Des mythes, icones et motifs indiens se retrouvent généralement dispersés dans ses récits. Plus particulièrement, Durrel succomba à l’idée de l’Inde telle qu’elle avait nourri l’imaginaire anglais pendant des siècles: l’Inde orientale. Il alla jusqu’à écrire un récit autobiographique dont un bon tiers est consacré à l’évocation de la vie ordinaire d’un personnage ordinaire vivant dans un pays ordinaire, mais bercé par son expérience indienne. Il serait donc naturel de s’attendre à trouver une vision critique cohérente de l’Inde et de ses habitants dans la critique consacrée à Durrel. Mais pareille quête s’avère difficile et les conclusions en sont plus que décevantes, frustant toute attente.Lawrence Durrell’s India connection has always been made much of. After all, he was born in India. Durrell even had parents who were both born in India, too, and spoke Hindi and Urdu. He nostalgically spoke about India all his life. He wrote a great deal about his fascination with India to his many correspondents in his letters. India lies scattered throughout his writing. Indian myths, motifs and icons can be found generously sprinkled in his narratives. More so, Durrell succumbed to the idea of India as it had been nourished and cherished over hundreds of years as part of the English imagination: the India of the Orient. He even wrote an autobiographical novel with a full third describing the ordinary life of an ordinary human being in an ordinary country drawing upon his experiences in India. No wonder Durrell scholars, readers, and interpreters share a widespread perception of an Indian aura in Durrell’s life and writings with a great deal of enthusiasm. One would, thus, expect much substance in Durrell’s view of India and expect to be able to put together a perceptive and a meaningful critique of India and its people based on his writings. But the exercise is fraught with many difficulties and the conclusions are more than disappointing and thwart all expectations

The Nature and Significance of Value-judgement in Literary Criticism : F R Leavis

Nature et signification du jugement de valeur en critique littéraire: F.R. LeavisCette thèse se penche sur la nature et la signification du jugement de valeur en critique littéraire au XXe siècle et plus particulièrement sur l’œuvre de F.R. Leavis, critique littéraire britannique très influent durant la période moderniste. Leavis est un critique professionnel et un universitaire qui, en tant qu’enseignant et penseur, a fonctionné au sein du système universitaire. En tant que critique, il illustre certaines des pratiques les plus abouties de sa profession. Il a analysé le rôle de l’université et est souvent sorti du monde universitaire pour s’exprimer en public sur des problèmes plus vastes.Il apparaît comme une voix influente ; il a défendu un point de vue qui, selon lui, méritait de l’être. L’extrême sérieux avec lequel il accomplit sa tâche de critique de la littérature et du contexte plus large dans lequel s’inscrivent la littérature et la critique littéraire, a fait de lui une figure majeure de son temps.Dans le contexte de crise qui secouait le monde du début du XXe siècle, déchiré par la guerre, Leavis pensait que les universités devaient nécessairement devenir le vecteur du développement de l’intelligence, de l’éthique et des idéaux du monde d’après-guerre. D’après lui, c’est ce qui ferait rempart à l’érosion des valeurs et aux forces destructives. La littérature, la critique littéraire et les études d’anglais avaient, à son avis, un rôle déterminant à jouer si les universités voulaient assumer leur responsabilité en tant que dépositaires des valeurs humaines et des qualités intellectuelles les plus nobles, qu’elles sont censées nourrir.Leavis pensait aussi que tous les champs du savoir sont constamment en évolution. Il insistait sur le fait que l’éducation universitaire est une et indivisible et refusait absolument de considérer, comme c’était alors le cas, que les humanités et les sciences constituaient des pôles intellectuels opposés.Cette thèse examine l’état constamment changeant des valeurs dans différents domaines d’investigation. Un chapitre est consacré à un ensemble de normes—le rôle des universités, l’éducation de l’intelligence, le jugement et les évaluations, la lecture serrée des textes, « la civilisation de masse et la culture mineure »--qui sous-tendent la croyance de Leavis en une pensée « désintéressée » que les études littéraires contribueraient à nourrir. Par la suite, la thèse examine la manière dont se forment les jugements de valeur, en particulier dans les œuvres de Dryden, Frye, Eliot.“Nature and significance of value-judgement in literary criticism: F. R. Leavis”The present thesis seeks to examine he nature and significance of value-judgement in literary criticism in the twentieth-century with special reference to F. R. Leavis, a widely influential English literary critic of the British Modernist phase. Leavis was a professional critic and an academic who, as a teacher and a thinker, functioned within the university system. As a critic, he exemplified some of the best practices of his profession. He analysed the role of the academy and often stepped out of the confines of the academic world to comment in the public arena on issues of larger import.He emerged as a major voice of a viewpoint, which, he believed, needed upholding. The intense seriousness, which he brought to bear upon his task as a critic of literature and of the larger context in which literature and literary criticism operated, singled him out as a major figure of his day.Leavis believed that the crisis of the early twentieth-century war-torn world necessitated that the universities become an instrument of development of intelligence, ethics, and ideals in the post-war world. That, for him, would act as bulwark against the erosion of values and the forces of destruction. The literature, literary criticism, and English studies, in his opinion, had a major role to play if universities were to fulfil their essential responsibility of being the repositories of humane values and finer intellectual abilities, which they were expected to nourish.Leavis believed that all fields of knowledge are in a constant state of research and development. He also emphasised the oneness of University education and vigorously opposed the then current notion of humanities and sciences as intellectual polar opposites.The present thesis examines the constantly changing state of values in several fields of enquiry. A chapter is devoted to a set of norms—the role of universities, the educated intelligence, judgement and evaluations, close textual reading, “mass civilization and minority culture,”––that underlie Leavis’s belief in “disinterested” thinking which literary studies help nourish. Subsequently in another chapter, how discriminations and value-judgements are formed is examined with references to the practices of Dryden, Frye, Eliot and several other voices

An Indian View of an Indian View: Durrell’s India

Lawrence Durrell’s India connection has always been made much of. After all, he was born in India. Durrell even had parents who were both born in India, too, and spoke Hindi and Urdu. He nostalgically spoke about India all his life. He wrote a great deal about his fascination with India to his many correspondents in his letters. India lies scattered throughout his writing. Indian myths, motifs and icons can be found generously sprinkled in his narratives. More so, Durrell succumbed to the idea of India as it had been nourished and cherished over hundreds of years as part of the English imagination: the India of the Orient. He even wrote an autobiographical novel with a full third describing the ordinary life of an ordinary human being in an ordinary country drawing upon his experiences in India. No wonder Durrell scholars, readers, and interpreters share a widespread perception of an Indian aura in Durrell’s life and writings with a great deal of enthusiasm. One would, thus, expect much substance in Durrell’s view of India and expect to be able to put together a perceptive and a meaningful critique of India and its people based on his writings. But the exercise is fraught with many difficulties and the conclusions are more than disappointing and thwart all expectations