The cost decrease, improvement of equipment transport and improvement of installation are the most common targets to be achieved; they occupied 45% and 50% of the granted patents selected from USPTO and EPO, respectively.
Carroll Wilson of OSRD defined Operations Research as "developing tactics for the most effective use of equipment and forces [and conducting] equipment analysis which is concerned with obtaining maximum performance from equipment through improvement of installation, maintenance, calibration, and testing procedures".
Our proposals like improvement of transparency, installation of a positive list and a household product database (HPDB) have been published some months ago, including the topic REACH and risk cycle [15].
Finally, guidelines for the design and improvement of farm installations and housing on Galician family dairy farms are sketched.
Safety (S) improvement of industrial installations leans on the optimal allocation of designs that use more reliable equipment and testing and maintenance activities to assure a high level of reliability, availability and maintainability (RAM) for their safety-related systems.
This model was used to assess practicality of improvements in terms of installation sequence and to test large-scale structural behaviour (see Fig. 7).
This was related to a significant improvement of the ease of installation and of the ability of Tegaderm™-CHG to cover beyond the insertion site protecting in most cases also the area of fixation of the catheter to the skin.
While both health providers and consumers shared desires to see interventions against malaria, diarrhoea, malnutrition, measles, HIV and AIDS prioritised, the communities went further by requesting for more services such as transport for referral of patients, drug and vaccine stock outs, water and sanitation improvement and installation of electricity at health facilities.
While not always the most visible improvement, the installation of a water softener system — especially for homes located in areas with hard-water supply — can significantly improve the value and appeal of a home for the right buyer.
Issues of general infrastructure such as renovations to physical structures; re-organization of client flow through the facility; and installation or improvement of power, water, sanitation and waste management systems must be addressed to facilitate effective infection prevention and the provision of good quality RH services [ 27].
Some of the improvements included the installation of two portables, modernization of 11 classrooms and the school's restrooms, along with replacing the heating, ventilation and air conditioning system.
