Rapid prototyping? Enterprise resource planning? Lean Six Sigma? Agile methodology? Project management? The measurement of time to delivery is shrinking from a decade or even a year to that of weeks and/or months. Certainly, today's manufacturing demand is a stark contrast when thousands like my father, labored in giant factories.
Potentially, human capacity as understood at this moment is under transformation pressure, from that of biological to synthetic capacity. I'm leaving whether or not our period of transformation is either a cultural benefit or cultural debit.
Synthetic Capacity
My point is capacity is changing and in a completely new direction. The predicted future by science fiction writers like Isaac Asimov in his iRobot series is a 21st Century reality at least from my perspective.
Manufacturing capacity defined at Business Dictionary as highest sustainable output rate (maximum number of units per month, quarter, or year) that can be achieved with current resources, maintenance strategies, production specifications, etc.
Engineered capacity as defined at Business Dictionary as theoretical (designed) capacity of a factory, production line or process, or machine, to generate an output under given constraints of raw material availability and sustainable working speed.
The ARRL Second Century Campaign, Fourth Objective --
A recent article titled, Amateur Radio Goes to College, is a perfect example of developing partnerships between our avocation and industry. Additionally, the same article underscored our cutting edge researchers whom are licensed Amateur Radio operators. For example, Nina Popovic, KD0JPI at McGill University is currently investigating dielectric mirrors in the terahertz region, using silicon instead of metal. Her greatest challenge, according to the article, is the lack of test equipment.
Another example, within the same article at the University of Honolulu-Hawaii, Andy Morishita, WH6DUG is currently investigating liquid metal antenna array at 2 to 4 GHz using GainSn to form filters and antennas.
Additionally, Ward Silver, N0AX lead the way at the International Microwave Symposium and is networking with senior level professionals. His take away from the experience suggested both practical and system-level experience is highly desirable of which Amateur Radio abundantly provides.
Quality vs. Quantity
The challenge I'm facing is adapting my skill set to that of 21st Century demands. I'm currently building new skill capacity because of the changes in the market place.
Increasingly, at the core of Amateur Radio, is our capacity to communicate using radio frequency from point-to-point or point-to-multiple points. Furthermore, let's reverse our quantification formula instead of looking at numbers of licensed instead let's measure capacity according to quality and contribution to our avocation.
I'd like to cite Nina Popovic, KD0JPI; Andy Morishita, WH6DUG; and Ward Silver, N0AX as quality over that of quantity. I believe it is time to focus on quality capacity not quantity capacity to meet the challenges of the next 100 years.
73 from the shackadelic on the beach.
Image may be NSFW.Potentially, human capacity as understood at this moment is under transformation pressure, from that of biological to synthetic capacity. I'm leaving whether or not our period of transformation is either a cultural benefit or cultural debit.
Synthetic Capacity
My point is capacity is changing and in a completely new direction. The predicted future by science fiction writers like Isaac Asimov in his iRobot series is a 21st Century reality at least from my perspective.
Manufacturing capacity defined at Business Dictionary as highest sustainable output rate (maximum number of units per month, quarter, or year) that can be achieved with current resources, maintenance strategies, production specifications, etc.
Engineered capacity as defined at Business Dictionary as theoretical (designed) capacity of a factory, production line or process, or machine, to generate an output under given constraints of raw material availability and sustainable working speed.
The ARRL Second Century Campaign, Fourth Objective --
Increase Amateur Radio's capacity to serve local, national, and global communities by sharing our radio communication skills and knowledge and by strengthening and expanding partnerships with organizations pursuing similar or complementary goals.Partnership
A recent article titled, Amateur Radio Goes to College, is a perfect example of developing partnerships between our avocation and industry. Additionally, the same article underscored our cutting edge researchers whom are licensed Amateur Radio operators. For example, Nina Popovic, KD0JPI at McGill University is currently investigating dielectric mirrors in the terahertz region, using silicon instead of metal. Her greatest challenge, according to the article, is the lack of test equipment.
Another example, within the same article at the University of Honolulu-Hawaii, Andy Morishita, WH6DUG is currently investigating liquid metal antenna array at 2 to 4 GHz using GainSn to form filters and antennas.
Additionally, Ward Silver, N0AX lead the way at the International Microwave Symposium and is networking with senior level professionals. His take away from the experience suggested both practical and system-level experience is highly desirable of which Amateur Radio abundantly provides.
Quality vs. Quantity
The challenge I'm facing is adapting my skill set to that of 21st Century demands. I'm currently building new skill capacity because of the changes in the market place.
Increasingly, at the core of Amateur Radio, is our capacity to communicate using radio frequency from point-to-point or point-to-multiple points. Furthermore, let's reverse our quantification formula instead of looking at numbers of licensed instead let's measure capacity according to quality and contribution to our avocation.
I'd like to cite Nina Popovic, KD0JPI; Andy Morishita, WH6DUG; and Ward Silver, N0AX as quality over that of quantity. I believe it is time to focus on quality capacity not quantity capacity to meet the challenges of the next 100 years.
73 from the shackadelic on the beach.
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