The study considers how the principles of 'flow' and 'pull' production – suggesting a regular, demand-driven product flow – may be implemented for the (semi-) process industry by introducing cyclic schedules.
Only a heightened and regular demand for influenza vaccine will result in sufficient vaccine supplies at all times (not just on a year-to-year basis) and place us in a better position to detect a novel pandemic influenza virus strain.
His new career took off and he was in regular demand as a radio and television pundit.
In a project environment, a manufacturer is confronted with two types of demand: regular demand from many small orders and very irregular, lumpy demand from infrequent, large orders.
The drums might also be a very good instrument, because drummers are in regular demand for all sorts of bands.
He bought a string vest, a shellsuit, a blond wig and a fake cigar, and for a couple of years was happy to find himself in regular demand.
The top-selling 50 products in terms of profit and volume of sales are similar and represent those products in regular demand while the remaining products are typically purchased only a few times over the entire period.
The size of editions varied greatly; the earliest printers of Rome typically struck off 225 copies and those of Venice 300 copies, but later the numbers rose and some of the standard legal texts, which were in regular demand, were printed at Venice in as many as 2,300 copies.
This information can then be used for decision-making and further analysis to redesign the value stream configuration, manage and reduce fluctuation, or set up dual-mode solutions, where regular demand can be managed in one way and exceptional or promotional demand can be managed in a separate response pattern.
