MY SECOND SON GIREESH

MY FIRST SON GANESH

GANESH S IS HIS NAME......GANESH SUBASH...NAME CHANGED TO GANESH SRIPADAM BY HIS MOTHERS FAMILY WITHOUT MY CONSENT.

KSTDC...KARNATAKA STATE TOURISM DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION

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...The above is a KSTDC  bus..KSTDC means  KARNATAKA STATE TOURISM DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION. It has an office at George Oakes Building  near City Market opposite BBMP at N R Square. The word George Oakes would need some research as to what transpired in this building in Victorian days..apparently it must have been some kind of a trading office.This building is also called Badami House.Contact Phone - ( 080) 4334 4334

This KSTDC bus station fills me with nostalgia..there used to be a KSTDC bus to CALICUT in the late 1980.s only to be discontinued later and I have traveled by these buses many times and the Calicut buses were largely luxurious and comfortable. One good thing to my observation  is that these buses are never late .

On the 14th of August 1986 I was travelling from Calicut to Bangalore in a KSTDC bus....there was a junior male student alongside and Sheela Furtado and a junior architecture female student who lived somewhere near Cox town were seated in the front seats. Somewhere as the bus approached the Bandipur forests trucks and buses approaching from the opposite direction were constantly warning us of a lone tusker somewhere adjacent to the road. Many a times I have encountered Elephants on this route in the day-time but this was in the night around 2 -o-clock and I being of a more inquisitive variety moved into the drivers cabin and could see the tusker on the road almost into half of the road but the driver of the bus who appeared to be adept to such occurrences did not halt but deviated around the elephant in a quick swirl and sped ahead.

I must have traveled by these buses many times..and remember learning to draw a pin-type insulator sitting in the waiting hall of this bus station and noting to my charm that the same question appeared in the Drawing Exam next morning.

I don't know how the Services are now...KSTDC regularly conducts various kinds of tours. Please visit the web site  http://www.karnatakaholidays.net/      and travelling by them at-least once is worth-the-while.

NOTE:THE NEW LOCATION OF THE HEAD OFFICE OF KSTDC IS IN THE BASEMENT OF YESHWANTPUR  BMTC BUS TERMINAL CLOSE TO SOAP FACTORY METRO STATION.THE NEW WEB ID OF KSTDC IS kstdc.co  AND CONTACT NUMBER (080)4334 4334.

THE SIX SIGMA QUALITY CONTROL SYSTEM

I hope this diagram is clear..please click it to see an enlarged view.

Nothing has created so much ado as the Six Sigma Quality system or Six Sigma Quality control procedure. But everything said and done Six Sigma has its origin in basic statistics.

One of the earliest Statistical procedures is the Histogram ...drawn using Class Intervals and Frequency ultimately leading to an Ogive and the most interesting aspect of these curves is that they are hill-shaped curves.

Such curves have given rise to a Normal Distribution..and the shape of the curve suggests that in a random population it is Normal to see the data distributed around the mean as seen in this distribution which can be expressed mathematically as it comprises of a combination of exponentially increasing and decreasing functions.

PLEASE CLICK ON THE TABLE TO SEE ENLARGED VIEW

What is a Standard  Normal  Curve..its area under the curve is 1 and has equal areas on either side of the Mean..this curve is what six sigma is based.Note the above table..it indicates the area exterior to the sigma levels.

Simply said under 1 sigma the area exterior to the level is 31.74 % and the area interior to the 1 sigma level is 100-31.74 = 68.26 %.

One of the preliminary methods of implementing Six Sigma is bench marking a quality system just to understand at what level the system operates at any given point in time. If there are 10 defective products every 10,000 it translates to roughly 1000 defects per million or from the above table a 3.3 sigma level.Now the task is to boost it to a six sigma level.

There is an interesting fact about Six sigma in it that from the above table it can be inferred that at six sigma it translates to 2 defects per billion.....Billion is not accepted as an exchange rate or yardstick of measurement and hence the concept of 1.5 sigma shift..which is 4.5 sigma..where we get 3.4 defects per million..and this is the refernce along which six sigma works.

The best of the quality systems under normal circumstances may be working at 3 sigma which is 2700 defects per million an unacceptable level..which means that (100 - 0.27)   99.73 % of the products are with lower and upper tolerance level of quality and implementing six sigma simply means that increasing the peak of the current normal curve to the extent of bringing many more of the defective components lying beyond this area within the tolerance fold so that the defects would be so miniscule to the extent of 3.4 defects per million an acceptable quality standard for at least most manufacturing situations.

P O SUBASH IN 2013

THIS IS A PHOTO TAKEN IN 2013 JUNE IN OGARA HOTEL OF BANGALORE

INVENTORY CONTROL

ECONOMIC  ORDER  QUANTITY

The  above is a standard diagram of INVENTORY CONTROL  and  EOQ  called  ECONOMIC  ORDER  QUANTITY  and such diagrams are discussed at various levels.

The concept of EOQ is one of the basis on which Inventory Control is studied and carried out in practical situations and the many kinds of Inventory models that have come up of-late do have their basis on concepts like this.

Inventory planning is influenced by two kinds of conflicting forces..the Carrying cost  and the Ordering cost.The carrying cost would be the rent you would pay for a store house and add to it labor costs and material handling costs......Ordering cost also called procurement cost is the cost of bringing an item into a ware-house and would involve transport cost and associated labor and any transis warehousing and communication costs.

If procurement costs are high then the EOQ will be high  and if Carrying costs are low  EOQ will be high..and EOQ is a trade-off in terms of volume ordered at any point in time which would keep the cumulative of these  costs low.

Consider the following steps that are used to derive an expression for EOQ;

Cc is carrying cost per item per year

Cp is procurement cost per order

A is total demand per year

Q is EOQ  Economic Order Quantity  (half of which is Average Inventory)

TOTAL INVENTORY COSTS =  TOTAL CARRYING COST  +  TOTAL PROCUREMENT COST

TOTAL CARRYING COST = AVERAGE INVENTORY  X  Cc

TOTAL PROCUREMENT COST  =  ORDERS PER YEAR  X  Cp

TOTAL INVENTORY COSTS = Q/2   X  Cc  +  A/Q   X Cp

AT  MINIMUM  Q   THE DIFFERENTIATION OF THE ABOVE EXPRESSION with respect to Q WILL BE EQUATED TO ZERO.

THEREBY WE GET  EOQ  =   SQRT  (2 A Cp / Cc)

Sandeep M Gangolli

This is Sandeep  Murlidhar Gangolli.................my only friend and confidant at the Sathya Sai Arts Science and Commerce College...basically a very intelligent person..I used to like him a lot. Both of us used to play Table Tennis in the TT room of  SSASCL. He studied Mechanical Engineering at MIT Manipal and has been with L and T .

We have not met after our college years and I was on his trail for many years and tracked him on Face Book.We will be meeting shortly for sure..on earlier occasions some last minute hiccup came in between.

A PHOTO TAKEN IN 2005

This is a photograph of mine taken somewhere in 2005..I can be seen on the extreme left and in the front, one can see Dr. M R JAYARAM  Chairman of GEF on the front extreme right..in the middle is Mr. Narayana Murthy of  Infosys  and in the extreme left is Capt. Gopinath of Deccan Airways.

SUNDARAM MY FRIEND

When I was in the first year at REC NIT Calicut  there was a student from New Delhi who was my class mate. After an year he went to IIT Delhi leaving NIT Calicut and both of us used to sit in the front bench. His name was Sundaram  a tamilian brought up in New Delhi.

For some reason Sundaram was somewhere a good friend of mine ,,basically a person of high intellectual disposition and used to walk much faster than others..sometimes reading books while waiting for a bus or standing in a queue in a theater.

During his stint at REC he wrote the IIT entrance and got some 400th rank and relocated to IIT Delhi to study Electrical Engineering.

Get in touch with me Sundaram if you still remember me and have some inclination.

SINGAPORE MANAGEMENT UNIVERSITY

I had visited this University sometime back  and remember these lawns and happened to run through them because of the rain. There is a nice coffee shop in the ground floor and very fondly remember the coffee I had here and the very enthusiastic waitress who attended to me in this Cafe.

SMU is supposed to be a reputed University in Asia. I remember Sherry  Yeo Win Chin  a staff at this University whom I had met in the second floor. I wanted to meet Mr. John Davis an an academic here but I was unsuccessful as he was not around. YMCA of Singapore is very close to this place. I was staying at a hotel in Little India and used to walk all the way to this University.

Howard Hunter was the president of this University at that time and he has written a book on 'Modern Contract law"

In the Singapore Airport I met a person Johan Boedianto an Articial Intelligence Engineer working for a German firm I think he was headed for Germany. I tried to contact Johan much later but was not successful. He seemed to me an interesting person.