The terms pull and lean production have become cornerstones of modern manufacturing practice. But, although they are widely used, they are less widely understood. In this paper, we argue that while the academic literature has steadily revealed the richness of the pull/lean concepts, the practitioner literature has progressively simplified these terms to the point where serious misunderstandings...

Poetic inquirers immerse themselves in the flow of life, listening for art ordinary world, offering a response through voice and written word. The biennial International Symposium on Inquiry, which draws poet-scholars from across disciplines showcases artful use poetry research as method inquiry. In this article, Fifth Inquiry is relived by two attendees who interrogate found poems they each cr...

The static response of an electrostatic micro-catilever beam has been obtained by using Galerkin’s method. To make the system bi-stable, a controller has been added and the static response profile is presented using a multi-mode model for the beam. The number of mode shapes leading to convergence has been studied. The softening effect of adding more mode shapes has been investigated along with ...