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...

In the current study, the effects of Casimir force and squeeze film damping on pull-in instability and dynamic behavior of electrostatically actuated nano and micro electromechanical systems are investigated separately. Linear elastic membrane theory is used to model the static and dynamic behavior of the system for strip, annular and disk geometries. Squeeze film damping is modeled using nonli...