Airplane take-off performance indicator Patent

Aircraft instrument for indicating malfunctions during takeof

Plant Performance Indicator

This report basically discusses the literature research done and basic understanding of the chosen topic which is ‘Plant Performance Indicator’. Plant Performance Indicator is a quantifiable measurement that reflects the critical success factors of an organization. It helps an organization to define and measure progress toward organizational goals. Normally, evaluation of the overall plant performance takes time and involved a lot of steps. This happens when each performance is evaluated individually and usually the plant performance indicator is used for long term consideration (within a year). Therefore, the study is aimed to identify several indicators used in evaluating plant performance and to select several best indicators in order to develop equipment monitoring tool using spreadsheet for process monitoring. The objective of developing the tool is to monitor and evaluate the performance of the plant within both short and long term consideration. The indicator can be applied at anytime and this will surely provide enough time to the organization to take immediate mitigation action if something goes wrong with their plant performance. Then, this tool will be implemented to a case study (small-scaled plant) in order to compare the result assess by the tool with the tools that is already used by the company. The framework of the project starts with the identification and selection of several plant performance indicators and followed by the process of developing the tool. The tool will be equipped with three main indicators namely environmental performance indicator, safety performance indicator and productivity performance indicator. This Final Year Project (FYP) is carried out under the supervision of Associate Professor Dr. Azmi bin Mohd Sharif

Key economic performance indicator

The East Africa Dairy Development (EADD) project is a regional industry development program and implemented by a consortium of partners. It is currently being piloted in 18 sites in Kenya, 8 in Rwanda and 27 in Uganda. The overall goal of the project is to transform the lives of 179,000 families, or about 1 million people, by doubling household dairy income in 10 years through integrated interventions in dairy production, market access and knowledge application. This brief highlights key results of a baseline survey of the economic performance analysis of dairy farms in project sites in Kenya, Rwanda and Uganda. The focus is on production and marketing aspects to establish a benchmark against which future economic performances of the project beneficiaries will be assessed during the project monitoring, review and final impact evaluations. Details are available in the baseline survey report No. 5

Report on National Ambulance Service Clinical Performance Indicators: Cycle 8 November 2011 – February 2012

This report summarises the results of the national ambulance services clinical performance indicator (CPI) audits for cycle 8

Designing a Performance Indicator to Economize on Monopoly Subsidy

We provide a continuum of subsidy rules based on a performance indicator that induce a monopoly to choose the socially optimal production level. These subsidy rules result in a reduction of the amount of subsidy paid to the monopolist compared to the standard case where a constant subsidy rate is used. The subsidy rate depends on a state variable that reflects the monopolist's history of performance. This variable depreciates over time, therefore requiring a permanent effort of the monopolist to maintain it at an optimal level. In an example with a linear demand and no production cost, the subsidy costs of inducing efficiency are reduced by almost fifty per cent. On montre qu'il existe un continuum de règles de subvention basées sur un indice de performance qui peuvent inciter un monopoleur à produire la quantité qui maximise le bien-être social. Avec ces règles, le gouvernement paie un montant total qui est de beaucoup inférieur à celui qu'il devrait payer dans le cas standard d'un taux d'aide constante. Le taux de subvention variable dépend de la valeur d'un stock qui reflète l'histoire de performance du monopoleur.monopoly, intertemporal optimization, performance indicator, subsidy rules, optimisation temporelle, indice de performance, règles d'aide

How to identify when a performance indicator has run its course

The official published version can be found at the link below.Increasing numbers of countries are using indicators to evaluate the quality of clinical care, with some linking payment to achievement. For performance frameworks to remain effective the indicators need to be regularly reviewed. The frameworks cannot cover all clinical areas, and achievement on chosen indicators will eventually reach a ceiling beyond which further improvement is not feasible. However, there has been little work on how to select indictors for replacement. The Department of Health decided in 2008 that it would regularly replace indicators in the national primary care pay for performance scheme, the Quality and Outcomes Framework, making a rigorous approach to removal a priority. We draw on our previous work on pay for performance and our current work advising the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) on the Quality and Outcomes Framework to suggest what should be considered when planning to remove indicators from a clinical performance framework

Automatic fault detection on BIPV systems without solar irradiation data

BIPV systems are small PV generation units spread out over the territory, and whose characteristics are very diverse. This makes difficult a cost-effective procedure for monitoring, fault detection, performance analyses, operation and maintenance. As a result, many problems affecting BIPV systems go undetected. In order to carry out effective automatic fault detection procedures, we need a performance indicator that is reliable and that can be applied on many PV systems at a very low cost. The existing approaches for analyzing the performance of PV systems are often based on the Performance Ratio (PR), whose accuracy depends on good solar irradiation data, which in turn can be very difficult to obtain or cost-prohibitive for the BIPV owner. We present an alternative fault detection procedure based on a performance indicator that can be constructed on the sole basis of the energy production data measured at the BIPV systems. This procedure does not require the input of operating conditions data, such as solar irradiation, air temperature, or wind speed. The performance indicator, called Performance to Peers (P2P), is constructed from spatial and temporal correlations between the energy output of neighboring and similar PV systems. This method was developed from the analysis of the energy production data of approximately 10,000 BIPV systems located in Europe. The results of our procedure are illustrated on the hourly, daily and monthly data monitored during one year at one BIPV system located in the South of Belgium. Our results confirm that it is possible to carry out automatic fault detection procedures without solar irradiation data. P2P proves to be more stable than PR most of the time, and thus constitutes a more reliable performance indicator for fault detection procedures.Comment: 7 pages, 8 figures, conference proceedings, 29th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition, Amsterdam, 201