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Master's Thesis from the year 2012 in the subject Engineering - Industrial Engineering and Management, grade: A, course: M.Tech., language: English, comment: Though Six Sigma was originally developed for manufacturing processes about 35 years back, but today almost every sector is using Six Sigma to improve related profits and performances. Here an initiative is taken to increase the performance of a backup power system by optimizing its various operational parameters thus cutting costs and hence decreasing overall financial losses. Thus a novel case is presented to apply the Six Sigma methodology in the backup-power service sector., abstract: Importance of BPS can't be ignored particularly in developing countries but feeble effort was seen to improve its power generation cost. An imprecise and outdated frameworks used for bringing change in BPS sector are unable to increase its overall equipment efficiency. The much diversified methodology of Six Sigma has been implemented through a case study which further validates the methodology adopted to tackle the problem formulated, in book ahead. Results achieved during the case, highlights the economical production of backup power by optimizing concerned power-generation parameters of a Cummin's Diesel Genset through strategic application of Six Sigma's DMAIC approach. The book outlines the need for proper energy reform in backup power industry. The DMAIC approach of Six Sigma in BPS sector is too infrequent and next, motivates to reduce backup power cost and its associated expenditures, which are generally ignored.

An unforeseen crisis emerged all of a sudden due to the pandemic COVID-19. Such crisis arises may be once in a decade. Every industry had to shut down under compulsion. It was all to protect human life, the slogan - “Jaan hai toh Jahan hai”. Iron foundries in India was already experiencing a slowdown since 2017 due to decreased demand from automobile and other sectors. Due to declaration of Lockdown from 22nd March 2020, foundries halted production. But like other industries they neither retrenched labors nor sent them back home. Soon the country felt to unlockdown major industries which are the backbone to the country's economy, the slogan - “Jaan bhi aur Jahan bhi”. Iron Foundries started its operation gradually on and from 2nd of May and labours engaged for production to meet the existing orders. Yet till June most foundries are running hardly within the range of 20 to 25 percent capacity level. The dust gathered on the plants is an eye opener to the foundry owners and they should take this crisis as an opportunity to introspect, investigate and reset their policies, programmes, methods of operation, etc. This study makes a survey of the pre, amidst and post lockdown status of the foundries of India, focusing more on Howrah Foundry Cluster. It has tried to provide some feasible suggestions to transform or reset the operation of foundries, which would have been never thought of in normal situations or even in economic recessions. This will make it a V-Shaped recession curve than a L-Shaped one. Since it is a prospective paper providing suggestions to maneuver from the unique crisis and reset the industry, very few literatures were of real use. Innovative mitigating methods suggested are need of the hour. The suggestions open more avenues for future research works.

While asymmetric warfare has undertaken a new and a broader dimension, especially in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of 911, the title of this paper refers to counterinsurgency warfare wherein terrorism is employed by the irregular adversary as a means to subvert the rule of law and effect change through violence and fear. This war is being waged in some form or the other in almost 71 countries of the world and the perceivable contours of the future international security landscape portend a threat for its proliferation. As a result, militaries around the world will have to gear up to counter this scourge, which offers different battlespace dynamics and challenges for military leadership. Such warfare underscores the need for different knowledge structures, wherein military's mass and energy, in concert with other elements of national power, are applied for control versus destruction. This paper attempts to capture the key features of an asymmetric warfare arena that may provide military leadership suitable touchstones for the planning and conduct of a counterinsurgency campaign. This effort besides digging into a plethora of literature also takes into account the experiential base of the author.

This book will enable accurate field identification in one of the world's most diverse avifaunal regions. An indispensable guide for all bird lovers.