Henry Disston & Co., and Mussehl & Westphal insist that musical saws must be ground to more rigid specifications.
Primary triangulation is performed under rigid specifications to assure first-order accuracy.
McDonald's scouts trolled the countryside for ambitious young farm directors, offering a premium price if they would provide beef and milk and pickles to the company's rigid specifications.
After Brigham's facilities in Pennsylvania were closed, a new state law imposed rigid specifications on things like air-conditioning systems and floors, forcing clinics across the state to undertake expensive, time-consuming renovations.
Similar thinking applies to equalizing all aspects of competition, with a mandated Car of Tomorrow used by all teams, rigid specifications for components and engine rules that render the pushrod V-8s of participating automakers nearly identical.
Although ingredients are generally the same as those used in batch processes, closer control and more rigid specifications are necessary in continuous processing in order to assure the satisfactory operation of each unit.
Rather, they suggest, the leaders' approach to building a world-class culture is not all that different from the one that powered China's economic miracle: set a long-term goal, adopt rigid specifications, pour in copious amounts of public money, monitor closely to ensure the desired result.
They're also asking families to commit to very rigid job specifications which change almost daily in a private home".
(Unit Manager: Unit 3704) While the intervention assisted in challenging staff views about rigid role specifications, encouraging nurses and support workers to facilitate activities, this was not sustained once the GetREAL intervention team had left.
But when the focus of research is the achievement of intervention-system fit (as in implementation science) and/or the emergent co-creation of research through multi-stakeholder partnerships, rigid pre-specification is at best ironic and at worst a recipe for failure, since by definition, the definitive intervention and its application is not pre-determined.
The supermarkets blamed consumers for being obsessed with perfection, while farmers blamed supermarkets for sticking to rigid, high technical specifications.
