Dead time is an unproductive and fixed work-piece handling time included in the capacitated transporter robots' movement time.
And he looked at how pieces "handle and respond to the tsunami of available fact, context and perspective" that constitutes our "Total Noise" culture today — a culture that so overwhelms us with data and rhetoric and spin that it's difficult to absorb, much less try to make sense of.
At any moment a wrong move or a fumbled piece of handling – and, blimey, there had been enough of those from both teams beforehand – would have given the Lions their much-coveted series victory.
Homer sent over a penalty after Piri Weepu's high tackle and, despite wet and greasy conditions, a superb piece of handling from Fergus Mulchrone saw Lewington go over in the corner.
Then there are a few more pieces with handling quality assurance, translation and hosting apps through a mobile-backend-as-a-service product called Kii Cloud, which handles in-app analytics, cloud storage, user and data management.
The stability was assessed on the pellet's dusting, powdering or falling into pieces: by handling the pellet, constant shape based on powder transfer to the operator's hands, was limited to intense powdering/crumbling-scored.
Figure 3 Average processing productivity and piece size handled over a 24 hour period.
One reason it costs so much to trade an 18th-century Chippendale chair is that, between receiving, storing, moving, exhibiting and shipping, the piece is handled 11 times on average, and each time there is the risk of damage.
The conversation which ensued underscores the lack of care and attention to detail this piece was handled with, and which it is incumbent upon journalists to exhibit--particularly when they risk doing harm to their subjects.
But a year from now this giant sandpit will be a world-class piece of infrastructure handling the world's largest cargo ships – and the government is desperate for similar projects to transform the UK's economic landscape.
The heavy lifting and slow, methodical lowering of the pieces was handled by Frank Mariano, whose family's company specializes in moving sculpture and has hoisted pieces by Rodin, Jeff Koons, Roy Lichtenstein and Roxy Paine, and many, many Moores, over the last few decades.
