Result: Goodfellow's labs are steadily reducing compound "cycle times" (from first screen to candidate selection for clinical trials).
The goal is to reduce cycle times the period needed to go from ordering raw materials to delivering finished goods by 25%.
Between 2008 and 2010, cycle times increased to 13.6 years, Anderson notes.
This component, with extremely short cycle times in an industrially oriented manufacturing process, already demonstrates what will be possible in the future.
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The company says they are starting in China, which could be a good strategy as it is a huge market, there are more players fighting each other, and their cycle times are faster.
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Over the course of six months, the team (which met for an hour or two every week) analyzed the set-up cycle times, benchmarked competitors, mapped the current process, interviewed customers, and explored technology options.
Over the past few years, Ryan has implemented an improved methodology for product delivery at Sprint which has reduced product cycle times and saved the company millions of dollars annually in rework and development costs.
Participants were asked to cycle all out for six seconds then rest for one minute, repeating the cycle 10 times.
After repeating this cycle several times, I noticed a pattern.
Each user goes through the Cycle multiple times.
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Before setting out on this trip, I had to power cycle the device five times for it to grab a GPS lock.
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As a result, the United States military is likely to experience yet another jag in the bust-and-boom cycle that has four times before in this century proven so wasteful and so reckless with regard to taxpayer equities and the national interest.
Even so, I missed the 25 percent rally in coal properties like Peabody Energy which now sells at 6 times mid-cycle enterprise value.
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The Times newspaper launched a cycle safety campaign following the incident.
Researchers will study whether inserting the Pap brush deeper, testing during different times of the menstrual cycle, or other factors might improve detection of ovarian cancer.
The Times launched a major cycle safety campaign after one of its reporters, Mary Bowers, was left in a coma after a serious accident with a lorry.
Patrick Callan of the National Centre for Public Policy and Higher Education points out that state universities experience extremes of the economic cycle pampered in good times, spurned when budgets turn red.
Those investors who understand the semiconductor cycle hold a decided advantage in such times.
Each weapon automatically replenishes its ammunition, but because of the long ammo-reload times, you have to cycle constantly through the weapon list to keep a loaded gun up.
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In fact the present warm period may well be at the top of a natural millennial cycle as previously occurred during Roman and Medieval times.
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Despite this economic outlook, the stock markets in the last three months have agreed with the unstated assumptions in the whispers of "green shoots" - that growth is a prerogative of the modern era, that rebounds are always V-shaped and that central banks and politicians have abolished the business cycle that has plagued economic life since ancient times.
They were made in sets and changed according to the cycle of festivals and seasons, and also the times of day.
PCs have about a 14 month design cycle, driven by the influences of tooling lead times and retail selling cycles (human behavior patterns).
The problem with using CO2 is that the system has to run at 1, 500psi, about five times the pressure in a typical refrigeration cycle.
The real test of an airlines strength is not how well it does in boom times but how well it does over a cycle.
The bank's credit culture is consistent throughout the cycle, meaning that it loses market share in boom times and wins business in environments like this one.
Paramount Pictures and JJ Abrams' production company Bad Robot will base the film on New York Times reporter Juliet Macur's forthcoming book Cycle of Lies: The Fall of Lance Armstrong.
And they reckon that, overall, the surface of the sea becomes two or three times warmer at the high point of the cycle than mere solar heating can account for.
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The pattern was interrupted when the financial crisis hit and 2007 and 2008, the last two years of the Bush administration, experienced a serious bear market but the circumstances were unusual, and the few times over the last hundred years that the cycle did not hold true to form did not affect the long-term percentage of the cycle.
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