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THE accountant is the latest competitor for management power. The Institute of Cost & Works Accountants—the value of whose Associate qualification we acknowledge—has re‐cast its requirements for the grade of Fellowship. Cost Accountants' or for that matter many other kinds of accountant, are now invited to sit for the Fellowship examination, the syllabus for which has just been published. This comprises the now familiar: Management—Factory and Distribution, Statistical Method, Advanced Cost Accountancy, Company Law, Management Accountancy and the Economic Aspects of Industry and Commerce. (The Management Section includes Motion & Time Study). Assuming that they are successful in this and that they satisfy a Reviewing Board of the adequacy of their experience, they may then call themselves “Management Accountants”.

A computational procedure based on a hybrid Lagrangian‐Eulerian discrete‐vortical element formulation and conformal transformation schemes are employed in this study to simulate the interaction of an air jet with swirling air flow inside a two‐dimensional cylinder. Such an investigation is of importance to many flow‐related industrial and environmental problems, such as mixing, cooling, combustion and dispersion of air‐borne or water‐borne contaminants because of the role of vortices in the global transport of matter and heat. The basis for the simulation is discussed and numerical results compared with theoretical results for the velocity field and streamfunction obtained by the method of images. The swirling air motion and the features of a real jet are well simulated and numerical results are validated by predictions of theory to within 20 per cent. To illustrate the merging and interaction processes of vortices and the formation of large eddies, velocity vectors, particle trajectories and streamline contours are presented.

NO one will pretend that work study occupies the departmental status that it is entitled to occupy in the organisation structure. Whereas there is every indication that work study's overall influence is wide‐spread, the fact remains that individual departments are kept well screwed down. This seems strange since increased production and optimum efficiency springs from its functions.

In recent years, high labour costs and the inconsistency of manual asembly have led to the wider acceptance of robotic assembly in product manufacturing. Planning robot assembly tasks requires a method of estimating robotic cycle time. Identifies some of the relationships between robot assembly time and manual assembly time, in order to develop a method of robot assembly time estimation based on manual assembly times. Uses methods time measurement (MTM) and robot time and motion (RTM) as the basis of comparison. Uses two case studies to evaluate the approach.

The purpose of this paper is to show what we can learn from an aesthetics perspective on organizational learning, and especially about some power dynamics unseeable with other perspectives.

An exploratory ethnographic study based on the turn-to-affect on the case of a theatre play in which many of the bearings that usually guide theatrical creation were removed.

Analysis highlights that an a priori distribution of the sensible that locks routines, representations and roles is seldom questioned in organizational learning programs; the motion enabling organizational learning is less likely to be brought about by a change in power distribution than with the removal of some elements of power that freeze situations; organizational learning diffusion does not only go through norms, rules, values and repositories, but also through affects; and learning runs through a fragile communication of movements, always under the threat of becoming major knowledge and power distribution.

This paper is based on a single case.

A too tight and close management of organizational learning is likely to thwart and limit its very learning possibilities.

Several findings are in contradiction to technological or too managerial approaches to organizational learning. The study hopes to contribute by providing a supplement of complexity in our analysis of organizational learning, notably advocating for taking into account the role of affects, sensibility and the politics of aesthetics.

‘A MAP OF THE WORLD that does not include Utopia is not worth glancing at’ wrote Oscar Wilde. ‘It leaves out the one country at which humanity is always landing. And when it lands there it looks out and, seeing a better country, sets sail again. Progress is the realization of Utopias’.

This paper aims to provide tools for the complete Jacobian analysis of robotic manipulators of general topology, using a comprehensive velocity equation.

First, a modelling process is made in order to build the velocity equation using simple constraint equations: i.e. length restriction, relative motion and rigid body constraints. Then the motion space is solved, i.e. the space that spans all feasible motions of the manipulator.

The velocity equation is comprehensive, i.e. it relates all kinematic variables, not only input and output. The Jacobian related to the comprehensive velocity equation is a square dimensionless matrix. This characteristic has great importance when evaluating manipulability or closeness to singularities. Employing the motion space, any kinematic entity can be studied: i.e. velocities and accelerations of any active/passive joints, screw axis, axodes, and so on. Also a comprehensive singularity analysis can be made.

The approach presented is focused on the kinetostatic analysis of manipulators and, therefore, subjected to rigid body assumption.

The paper presents a proposal of effective codes for engineering analysis of manipulators.

This approach is based on a pure computational kinematic analysis that unifies all kinetostatic analysis for any manipulator topology (i.e. serial, parallel, hybrid manipulators, complex mechanisms, redundant‐or non‐redundant‐actuated). The characteristic Jacobian matrix is dimensionless and provides the means for a complete singularity analysis and an effective use of indicators.

RETIRING prime ministers are customarily offered an earldom. Because this often involves a change of name and historical oblivion, some of the greatest among them, men like Pitt and Gladstone and Churchill, have declined the honour. They understood that it is not names which give confidence in things, but things which give confidence in names. What would an Earl Chartwell of Westerham mean to future generations compared with the clarion voice we know as Churchill?

This paper aims to present development of a layer‐wise (LW) beam model for geometric nonlinear finite element analysis of laminated beams with partial layer interaction.

The model is built assuming first order shear deformation theory (FSDT) at layer level and moderate interlayer slips. LW kinematic, strain and stress fields are established in view of co‐rotational finite element formulation. Laminated beam equilibrium relations are developed in strong, weak and matrix form. A notion of interface shear stress is used to define layer interactions.

Through suitable choice of kinematic model the co‐rotational approach is shown to provide means of obtaining robust finite element formulation for geometric nonlinear analysis of laminated structures with interlayer slips.

The proposed model is dedicated to geometric nonlinear finite element analysis of laminated beams undergoing large planar displacements, subject to small strains and moderate interlayer slips.

Novelty of the proposed approach is based on encompassing shear deformations in geometric nonlinear analysis of laminated beams with interlayer slips. Arbitrary number of layers is considered.

In an aeroplane driven by engines providing a pair of adjacent, side‐by‐side rcarwardly directed jet blasts, a fairing on said aeroplane positioned between the paths of said blasts and having opposite surfaces closely adjacent the extent of the paths of said blasts, said fairing having a vertical portion thereof movably supported on a vertical pivot at the forward edge of said portion, means for moving said portion laterally into the path of one or the other of said blasts to create a lateral deflexion thereof, said vertical portion being divided vertically to define two panels, and means to separate said panels to move one of said panels into the path of one of said jet blasts and the other of said panels into the path of the other of said jet blasts, to deflect said blasts laterally and in opposite directions.