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The impact of Facebook on the people is immense and is still on the Facebook hampers the overall development of the children. rise. No one will deny the benefits of being able to keep track of the Children do not play outdoor games or enjoy the beauty of latest happenings and interact with friends or family but as each environment. coin has two faces, Facebook has also got a darker side. Phishers and spammers have also appeared on the site and are a Facebook, the most successful social networking site in the world, severe threat to personal information. The amount of personal has sadly become an addiction for the major portion of the society, information on Facebook is a point of huge concern and thus especially the youth. About 350 million people privacy has become an enormous matter to think are on Facebook, out of which 70% are between about. Someone may extract your personal and the ages of 13 -25.People update every minute professional information and use it to do harm to details of their daily activities on the site. you. Pictures and videos are created just for the sake Several instances of cyber bullying have also been of uploading on Facebook. Hours are spent recorded in many places of the world. Cyber bulthinking about the status to be updated and lying may not be physical but becoming emoseveral more hours are spent updating the tional and psychological its effects are devasstatus and checking the “likes” and “comments” tating for the victim and can often lead to suicide and depression. on it. Facebook commonly acronymed as FB is accessible through The term social networking to me is misleading. People ‘believe’ mobile phones and millions of users remain active on the site through their cell phones. More than 50% of these people use Face- that they are social but are they? No, the contact is minimal and impersonal. People know what their friends and family are doing book on their computers as well as mobile phones. The obsession just by looking at the “News Feed”, so why meet or call? The way of of these people with FB is such that they can’t stay away from it. communication has changed completely and people prefer chatting Facebook has become a drug for many! online to talking face to face. Another important ill effect of Facebook is the negative exposure to One thing that is for certain is that presently the better side of FB kids. Kids lack the maturity and are vulnerable to predators on has overshadowed the darker side but only time will tell how FaceFacebook who are ready to grasp and influence the young minds. book will be in the future. Children below a certain age shouldn’t be allowed to use FB as apart from these ill effects, the prolonged increased usage of By: Naman Agrawal, B.Tech (CSE)
Lean is a manufacturing philosophy which eliminates all types of waste; on the other hand, it adds more value to the final product or service. Waste, according to lean, is a non value added activity for which the end customer is not willing to pay. As far as lean is concerned, the organizational activities are broadly classified into three categories and they are: (a) Value adding activities- The activities that add value to the final product or service and required to be performed. (b) Non value adding activities- The activities that add no value to the final product or service but act as source of huge waste. (c) Necessary but non value adding activitiesThe activities that add no value to the final product or service but sometimes, it is necessary to perform these activities for the completion of the task. A research is being carried out at Lean Enterprise Research Center, UK to identify the contribution of various activities and it is found that: (i) 5% of the total activities are value adding activities. (ii) 60% of the total activities are non value adding activities.
(iii) 35 % remaining are necessary non value adding activities. Lean is a plethora of tools and techniques such as 5-S, Kaizen, Six Sigma, Value stream Mapping , Total Productive Maintenance, Andons, Kanban, Line Stop Authority, Low Cost Automation, Poka- Yoke, Production Leveling, Quality Circle, Single Minutes Exchange of Die, Total Quality Management, Visual Control etc. Instead of going into the details of these tools and techniques of lean, here, I would like to discuss how you can apply the philosophy of lean for the betterment of our professional life. Here, I would give a list of activities to clarify the concept of lean. (i) Take a piece of paper and on the top of it, write down ‘why you are here in Galgotias University’ and you get the main purpose of your stay at this place. (ii) Write down all the activities we perform during the whole day. (iii) Be honest and apply the philosophy of lean to segregate value adding and non value adding activities on the basis of our main purpose. Now, I would suggest you how to segregate your routine activities into value added and non value added activities.
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Attending a lecture carefully →Value added activity. Self study at library in free lecture →Value added activity. Gossiping with friends by bunking lecture→ Non value added activity. Travelling from one lecture hall to another for Lecture→Necessary but non valve added Activity. Any other activity →
By this way, you can map your routine activities and would get to know the utility percentage of the day. The non value added activities identified here are all waste and consuming your resources and time. This compels you to think and find out ways and means to curtail these activities. You should try your best to devote more time on the value added activities and these activities will help you to reach your objective in a smooth and hassle free manner. By: Prof. (Dr.) Bhim Singh, Department of Mechanincal Engineering