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Lean Six Sigma Basics
Published in James William Martin, Lean Six Sigma for the Office, 2021
Improvement teams should have operational alignment with customer and business goals to ensure correct project prioritization, resource availability, support for solutions, and sustainability. Improvement teams are increasingly globally dispersed and work remotely. The team members often speak different native languages and are culturally different. This means all team members need to be culturally aware. Remote meetings may occur at inconvenient times for some team members. This requires them to be planned to consider different time zones. But with digitization, video, conferencing and communications are highly standardized, secure, and easy to use, and meeting times can be periodically moved to different time zones. Although some teams still focus on a single project, the trend is for teams to work through a portfolio of aligned projects to create business integrated solutions. This is because different IT systems and stakeholders are included in a team’s scope. Team members also represent parts of end-to-end services and their supporting processes. This is also true for product design teams where work is dispersed.
Definitions and Terminology
Published in Frank Vignola, Joseph Michalsky, Thomas Stoffel, Solar and Infrared Radiation Measurements, 2019
Frank Vignola, Joseph Michalsky, Thomas Stoffel
Local standard time is related to GMT through the time zone of a person’s location. In Eugene, Oregon, the local time is 8 hours earlier than GMT. In Berlin, Germany, the local time is 1 hour ahead of GMT. Every 15 degrees of longitude roughly defines a time zone. Therefore, if a person’s location is within ±7.5 degrees longitude of a longitude that divides evenly by 15 degrees, that person would be assumed to be within the time zone of that longitude; however, a location’s time zone is sometimes modified from this strict interpretation by other factors, usually related to commerce. In any case, correctly specifying the longitude, the UT and the latitude allows for calculation of solar position very precisely using the programs solpos.c or spa.c that are described in Section 2.4.
Estimating the time of Arrival
Published in Philip M. Smith, Terrestrial Navigation, 2017
Time zones are based on the rotation of the Earth, which equates to about 15º every hour. Here we should understand the distinction between Time Zone and Zone Time which is not always dictated by geographical position, but by governments. Governments declare what their Zone Time or STANDARD Time will be and this advice will be found in the Yearly Nautical Almanac and in Admiralty List of Radio Signals (ALRS) Volume 2. It is given as the difference from (GMT) UT making it a political decision which can be subject to change. An easy example to demonstrate this is the difference between UK and France. United Kingdom has chosen as its standard time GMT (UT). This makes sense as the UK has the Greenwich Meridian running through the middle of it. France, on the other hand is on the same Longitude band as Britain but has chosen to have its Standard time as GMT + Hour, which we are familiar with as British Summer Time, and which we in the UK hold to as our Standard Time between the end of March to the end of October.
Direction of travel of time zones crossed and results achieved by soccer players. The road from the 2018 FIFA World Cup to UEFA EURO 2020
Published in Research in Sports Medicine, 2022
Michał Zacharko, Marek Konefał, Łukasz Radzimiński, Paweł Chmura, Krzysztof Błażejczyk, Jan Chmura, Marcin Andrzejewski
Perhaps self-evident is the fact that the world has 24 time zones, with each taking in one solar hour and thus having an average width of 15° of longitude (Roenneberg et al., 2019). However, as several time zones have only 30- or 45-minute offsets, the total number worldwide is far greater. The zero meridian is set at Observatory Hill in Greenwich, east of London, in relation to the so-called Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) (Howse, 1980).