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I am Ouxiang Yu. I created this website and completed this Midterm by myself.
I am Ouxiang Yu. I created this website and completed this Midterm by myself.
Content:
This Midterm is about 12 human error detection and prevention cases with an analytical and a quality focus.
Human Error 1: Apple Company Order System and Customer Service System
This Midterm is about 12 human error detection and prevention cases with an analytical and a quality focus.
- Human Error 1 of Apple Company Order System and Customer Service System
- Human Error 2 of Poor Ability of A University Center Leasing Office
- Human Error 3 Unworked Solar Power Equipment
- Human Error 4 Trashcan in the Restroom in University Center
- Human Error 5 Poor Quality of Samsung Smartphone
- Human Error 6 NJIT Road Surface Cracking
- Human Error 7 Dangerous Dumpling
- Human Error 8 Scratch on a New Coach Leather Belt
- Human Error 9 Dirty Spot on Vince Camuto New Bag
- Human Error 10 Inconvenient Spoon
- Human Error 11 Not Working Screen
- Human Error 12 Falling Ceiling in NJIT Classroom
- Social Networking
- Self Grade
Human Error 1: Apple Company Order System and Customer Service System
On October 31st 2014, I brought an iPhone 6 from online apple store. I selected the pick up option when check out. I succeeded in ordering the iPhone 6 at The Westchester Apple Store. The store is 2.5 hours away from NJIT where I live by public transportation according to Google Map. On November 2nd, I called the store because I haven’t received the email notification of availability of picking up for 2 days, which normally with be within 24 hours. Then the rep checked and told me that the item I ordered was available at the store. I took 2 hours to get to the store, but the apple expertise told me there wasn’t any item that belongs to me at their store. This is a huge human error. They then took another hour to contact Apple headquarter to solve my problem and finally I got the iPhone 6. I wasted 3 hours on this human error. This human error costs the extra electric bill of the connecting and unnecessary bill of Talk data for Apple Company. It wasted my valuable time. It costs extra air condition fee to cool down my body temperature. This problem indicates that it has a poor quality service.
Detection: This human error is detected visually and via communication. The first error appears in the Apple Company Order System. It can be detected through system checking. The second human error in this case is the representative of Apple Customer Service. It should be detected by communication. The third error is the expertise in the Apple Store. It could be detected by measurement of time that an expertise helps customer.
Prevention: For the first error of Apple Company Order System, conducting a regular check for all unusual orders in the end of day will be able to prevent it occur again. Employees can fix the problem before it goes to the second stage. For the second error of the Representative of Apple Customer Service, he or she should communicate with the associated store personally to prevent further possible human error. For the third error of the expertise at Apple Store, he or she should process the order and satisfy the customer first instead of dealing with the Apple headquarter first.
Human Error 2: Poor Ability of A University Center Leasing Office
Detection: This human error is detected visually and via communication. The first error appears in the Apple Company Order System. It can be detected through system checking. The second human error in this case is the representative of Apple Customer Service. It should be detected by communication. The third error is the expertise in the Apple Store. It could be detected by measurement of time that an expertise helps customer.
Prevention: For the first error of Apple Company Order System, conducting a regular check for all unusual orders in the end of day will be able to prevent it occur again. Employees can fix the problem before it goes to the second stage. For the second error of the Representative of Apple Customer Service, he or she should communicate with the associated store personally to prevent further possible human error. For the third error of the expertise at Apple Store, he or she should process the order and satisfy the customer first instead of dealing with the Apple headquarter first.
Human Error 2: Poor Ability of A University Center Leasing Office
This occurred on November 5th 2014. I already paid my rent on October 28th 2014. The officer somehow missed the check I paid with and asked me for another rent fee. After I showed him my check recipe from Bank of America, the office told me that they did mistake and have received my payment. But he asked me for another payment of damage fee of my previous apartment whose lease was end on May 2014. And he ask me for late fee for that damage within the fact that he never sent me any official remind or notification for that fee. I was so angry because he doesn’t have a sense of logic. This human error indicates the University Center has not a quality service focus.
Detection: The human error can be detected visually and by communication. The first error of the wrong email regarding of late rent fee can be detected by communication. The second error of the wrong concept of late fee can be detected by communication as well. The third error of this case is the un-capability officer who doesn’t have a sense of logic. This can be detected by logical communication.
Prevention: For the first human error, he or she should record each transaction a customer makes. And he or she should check their transaction history before he or she email customer about the problem. For the second error, the officer should conduct detection at the time the customer leave the lease, but not 6 months later. The officer should always check first and notify the customer earlier instead of 6 months later and ask for later fee. For the third error, the University Center should always hire people who have logic think ability to make sure they won’t make any logic mistake that unpleased customer.
Human Error 3: Unworked Solar Power Equipment
Detection: The human error can be detected visually and by communication. The first error of the wrong email regarding of late rent fee can be detected by communication. The second error of the wrong concept of late fee can be detected by communication as well. The third error of this case is the un-capability officer who doesn’t have a sense of logic. This can be detected by logical communication.
Prevention: For the first human error, he or she should record each transaction a customer makes. And he or she should check their transaction history before he or she email customer about the problem. For the second error, the officer should conduct detection at the time the customer leave the lease, but not 6 months later. The officer should always check first and notify the customer earlier instead of 6 months later and ask for later fee. For the third error, the University Center should always hire people who have logic think ability to make sure they won’t make any logic mistake that unpleased customer.
Human Error 3: Unworked Solar Power Equipment
I received this present from my roommate on Halloween Day, 2014. I was so happy to see it, but unhappy to have fun with it. This product uses solar energy to power the pumpkin boy to shake his head and body. But this product has defect that the solar facility doesn’t work. We can only push it to shake and watch his 5 seconds performance. This human error gives my friend and I unpleased motion. This human error indicates that the manufacturing company has a poor quality control and quality focus.
Detection: This human error can be detected by touch and visual. By moving it and observe its operation, we can find out whether the product has defects.
Prevention: The manufacture company should conduct quality process and sample test to make sure its products won’t have defects. Using Professor Ranky’s Quality Assurance and Process template can prevent it occur again.
Human Error 4: Trashcan in the Restroom in University Center
Detection: This human error can be detected by touch and visual. By moving it and observe its operation, we can find out whether the product has defects.
Prevention: The manufacture company should conduct quality process and sample test to make sure its products won’t have defects. Using Professor Ranky’s Quality Assurance and Process template can prevent it occur again.
Human Error 4: Trashcan in the Restroom in University Center
This is a picture of a trashcan in a restroom in University Center, a student dom. This is a huge human error. The trashcan is quite big, but it only used its ¼ of space. There is a damage of the external surface of the trashcan. It bends. So the trash can only reach to top of the trashcan leaving the rest ¾ space empty. This seems so dirty that trash was fallen on the ground everywhere. The quality of the trashcan is so bad that it is easy to be bend. And this phenomenon has been occurring for a whole semester without being fixed.
Detection: This human error can be detected visually.
Prevention: The stuff should have been aware of the situation that the trashcan was damaged and it wasn’t fall when he or she cleans the trashcan. To prevent it, the manufacture should have a better design of the quality of the trashcan. The company should also conduct a quality control process to make sure the trashcan is in a good quality. The stuff in the University Center should also be responsibility to the dirty issue. He or she should report the damage and the office should have regular equipment testing each a period of time.
Human Error 5: Poor Quality of Samsung Smartphone
Detection: This human error can be detected visually.
Prevention: The stuff should have been aware of the situation that the trashcan was damaged and it wasn’t fall when he or she cleans the trashcan. To prevent it, the manufacture should have a better design of the quality of the trashcan. The company should also conduct a quality control process to make sure the trashcan is in a good quality. The stuff in the University Center should also be responsibility to the dirty issue. He or she should report the damage and the office should have regular equipment testing each a period of time.
Human Error 5: Poor Quality of Samsung Smartphone
This is my friend cellphone when he provides me his Facebook account. He dropped his cellphone incautiously and the screen broke. But he was on seat. With just 14 inches distance, the screen of the cellphone broke. This is a human error. Smartphone should be able to resist an impact of gravitation of 14 inches. It must be somewhere of this particular one doesn’t have a good quality.
Detection: This human error can be detected by measurement and test. When manufacturers of these handheld devices are considering customer requirements, the ability to withstand reasonable falls should be on that list. Part of the design and testing processes would then include a drop test to see how well it meets that requirement. Such a test would have detected the error in the design and material selection.
Prevention: Samsung should have a quality control for its product and conduct quality control process before the release of any production to prevent any defect. The design and materials used in devices like this should try to meet a real market’s need, which is the need of customers. A screen material that flexes, such as an OLED Screen, and a design that absorbs some of the shock and is easier to grip would go a long way towards correcting this error.
Human Error 6: NJIT Road Surface Cracking
Detection: This human error can be detected by measurement and test. When manufacturers of these handheld devices are considering customer requirements, the ability to withstand reasonable falls should be on that list. Part of the design and testing processes would then include a drop test to see how well it meets that requirement. Such a test would have detected the error in the design and material selection.
Prevention: Samsung should have a quality control for its product and conduct quality control process before the release of any production to prevent any defect. The design and materials used in devices like this should try to meet a real market’s need, which is the need of customers. A screen material that flexes, such as an OLED Screen, and a design that absorbs some of the shock and is easier to grip would go a long way towards correcting this error.
Human Error 6: NJIT Road Surface Cracking
This is picture of a road surface in NJIT when I was walking in campus. This is human error. The pavement should be strong enough to withstand the cracking created by either heavy weight of vehicle or bad weather. This can cause students fall and cause further injury.
Detection: This human error can be detected visually and by testing. The material used to pave road in campus should be tested. A supervise or OSHA inspector will be able to detect the quality of the material used for paving road in campus.
Prevention: To prevent this human error, the company could have a material quality control process to make sure the quality of the material for pavement can withstand certain weigh of car. Provide a onsite supervisor will be able to prevent it from happening.
Human Error 7: Dangerous Dumpling
Detection: This human error can be detected visually and by testing. The material used to pave road in campus should be tested. A supervise or OSHA inspector will be able to detect the quality of the material used for paving road in campus.
Prevention: To prevent this human error, the company could have a material quality control process to make sure the quality of the material for pavement can withstand certain weigh of car. Provide a onsite supervisor will be able to prevent it from happening.
Human Error 7: Dangerous Dumpling
This is a serious food health issue. The human error occurred here could actually cause human death. I purchased a pack of dumpling in a Chinese supermarket. When I cooked it and started to eat, I found a rubber string inside the dumpling. I am luck to find it. Otherwise maybe I will never know the reason cause my cancer or death in the future. I threw the whole dumpling. This is a serious human error with a poor food quality process and inspection.
Detection: This human error can be detected by quality control process. The manufacturing company could have regular inspection of its supply chain and its food making process to detect any potential danger.
Prevention: The Company should have a quality control team that focus on detecting potential problem that could cause health problem for its manufacturing process and its supply chain.
Human Error 8: Scratch on a New Coach Leather Belt
Detection: This human error can be detected by quality control process. The manufacturing company could have regular inspection of its supply chain and its food making process to detect any potential danger.
Prevention: The Company should have a quality control team that focus on detecting potential problem that could cause health problem for its manufacturing process and its supply chain.
Human Error 8: Scratch on a New Coach Leather Belt
During the summer in 2014, I purchased a Coach belt. When I bring it back home I found there are scratch on the new belt. This is a human error. The manufacturing process has some problem that causes this defect production. Coach is a big brand. It should have a good quality of its all production. The reason for this human error is the poor quality control process Coach has.
Detection: This human error can be detected visually. The packaging stuff will be able to detect this defect.
Prevention: Having a quality control process for the production line will be able to prevent this human error. A special quality control team could identify the potential defect the process line and supply chain contains. With their inspection and supervision, the human error could be prevented.
Human Error 9: Dirty Spot on Vince Camuto New Bag
Detection: This human error can be detected visually. The packaging stuff will be able to detect this defect.
Prevention: Having a quality control process for the production line will be able to prevent this human error. A special quality control team could identify the potential defect the process line and supply chain contains. With their inspection and supervision, the human error could be prevented.
Human Error 9: Dirty Spot on Vince Camuto New Bag
On my sister’s birthday, I purchased a brand new popular Vince Camuto bag as a birthday gift to her. When I received the bag, there are dirty spot on the edge of the top. This made me so upset since I should give the bag to my sister at that day to make her happy. This is a human error. The Vince Camuto warehouse should check the status of the bag before it ship out. Or the Vince Camuto should have a good quality control process to make sure their product meet customer’s requirements.
Detection: This human error can be detected visually. Anyone in the production process line can identify the dirty condition of the bag.
Prevention: Vince Camuto company should be ware of their production line. They could have a policy encourage everyone in its manufacturing process line and warehouse to report damage or clean condition of its production. And Vince Camuto could have a special quality focus team aim on the inspection to prevent any defects and problems of its products.
Human Error 10: Inconvenient Spoon
Detection: This human error can be detected visually. Anyone in the production process line can identify the dirty condition of the bag.
Prevention: Vince Camuto company should be ware of their production line. They could have a policy encourage everyone in its manufacturing process line and warehouse to report damage or clean condition of its production. And Vince Camuto could have a special quality focus team aim on the inspection to prevent any defects and problems of its products.
Human Error 10: Inconvenient Spoon
On November 6, 2014, I took United Airline to Shanghai, China to attend my best friend’s wedding. On the plane during the flight, airline stewardess serviced me some ice cream. I opened the cover and found the small spoon. I took it and tried to use it. The spoon is so small that I couldn’t handle it and it is difficult to reach the bottom ice cream in the container. The designer of this spoon is a human error. The designer should think in customer’s view and try to actually use it to see if the design meets the requirements. They should have designed a spoon that can be bended into the case so that customer will have a longer spoon to reach the bottom ice cream. Otherwise, this design will cause tons of food waste because customer can’t reach the part.
Detection: This human error can be detected by testing. When the design released, they can have a sample and test it. When they test it, they will be able to detect the problem.
Prevention: To prevent this human error, the company could have a test process of the design product. They can investigate random people to give feedback of using this particular design. With the feedback process, company will know whether the design meet all kinds of customers’ requirements or not. Then they will be able to prevent this kind of human design error.
Human Error 11: Not Working Screen
Detection: This human error can be detected by testing. When the design released, they can have a sample and test it. When they test it, they will be able to detect the problem.
Prevention: To prevent this human error, the company could have a test process of the design product. They can investigate random people to give feedback of using this particular design. With the feedback process, company will know whether the design meet all kinds of customers’ requirements or not. Then they will be able to prevent this kind of human design error.
Human Error 11: Not Working Screen
On the flight to China, the screen I faced didn’t work during the trip. This cause so much inconvenience for me to enjoy the trip and for acquire important information provided by aircraft commander, which can possibly cause dangerous injury for customers. This is a poor quality product. It is a human error.
Detection: This human error can be detected by testing. And the human error is visual. To detect the human error, plane manufacture can conduct quality measurement for the lifespan of the screen. United Airline crews could detect this problem by testing and by simply a touch.
Prevention: To prevent this human error, the manufacturing company could undergo regular condition testing to check if all function in the plane work or not. The company also can set up a computer system for monitoring the performance of every function in the plane to replace immediately when necessary. Untied Airline could check the status of all function before they let customer to board to prevent this problem.
Human Error 12: Falling Ceiling in NJIT Classroom
Detection: This human error can be detected by testing. And the human error is visual. To detect the human error, plane manufacture can conduct quality measurement for the lifespan of the screen. United Airline crews could detect this problem by testing and by simply a touch.
Prevention: To prevent this human error, the manufacturing company could undergo regular condition testing to check if all function in the plane work or not. The company also can set up a computer system for monitoring the performance of every function in the plane to replace immediately when necessary. Untied Airline could check the status of all function before they let customer to board to prevent this problem.
Human Error 12: Falling Ceiling in NJIT Classroom
This is a class I am taking this semester. I noticed the condition of the ceiling of this classroom. It was kind of wet and seems falling soon or later. This is dangerous condition because a falling piece can hurt students and teachers. This is a human error.
Detection: This human error could be detected by material testing. The company can measure the materials provided by subcontract to see if it meet the quality requirements. The construction manager and inspector can detect the measurement tolerance of the materials.
Prevention: Conducting quality control and material requirement measurement can prevent the happening of this human error. Constructor can detect the sample to make sure they meet the requirement to prevent this human error. Regular inspection of the ceiling condition will be able to prevent this human error as well. Replace unqualified items with new qualified ones will prevent this human error.
Detection: This human error could be detected by material testing. The company can measure the materials provided by subcontract to see if it meet the quality requirements. The construction manager and inspector can detect the measurement tolerance of the materials.
Prevention: Conducting quality control and material requirement measurement can prevent the happening of this human error. Constructor can detect the sample to make sure they meet the requirement to prevent this human error. Regular inspection of the ceiling condition will be able to prevent this human error as well. Replace unqualified items with new qualified ones will prevent this human error.
Social Networking
Article 1 <October Electric Car Sales Report (US)>
According to the article, Electric car market doesn’t seem to be growing, but dropping, during this year, which is not quite normal compared with its previous sales that have been increasing constantly. Some companies have released new version of electric car and created a high sale compared with others, such as BMW i3 of BMW who resulted a third spot with a volume of half of that of Nissan Leaf, the 1st spot company, in the US Plug-in Sale during October 2013 to October 2014. It concluded that one of the reasons for the decrease of electric car sale this year is because of the plug-in electric car models. But the author doesn’t have enough information for why this phenomenon occurred. There are plenty of possible reasons for it.
I think the electric market is complicate. I believe it is just the beginning of the electric car market to grow. There are variation of the market sale, which is normal since you have plenty effect that can influence this market, such as Bull Effect from supply chain. But there is another way to look deeper into this market. Tesla has a significant influence in electric car market. The author of the article didn’t use the date of Tesla because there is no US market in Tesla annual report that has only global report. But we can take a look of Tesla’s 2014 sale of its electric car market to see if the demand of the electric car grows in a worldwide view. If the data shows that there is a huge increasing in its sale, the demand for the electric car will then be optimistic.
From my point of view, I believe the electric car market will grow in a long-term point of view. Maybe it doesn’t seem to be inspiring recently, but it will be the dominated car market in the future since Sustainable Green and Eco-friendly concept are being accepted gradually.
"Electric car is the very recent innovative and developed car model that are not popular to spread out the world. However, several famous automobile industries are in the very front to lead the development of green and sustainable electric car market. Interestingly, the author of the report actually saw an overall drop in electric car sales compared to last October, it is even the first time the professions has seen this. The final reason was that the plug-in hybrid electric car that drops the sale down. It is disappointing that the market is shrinking and as what the author said, the marketing should really be doubling or even tripling, the back reason might be that customers are waiting for better models, but could also be the low demand due to lack to reputation and very new industry, car users need more time to get used to electric cars. However, the electric cars should be highly recommended simply because of its green and sustainability." -By Yidi Wang
"Electric cars have some benefits over conventional internal combustion engine automobiles, in my opinion, the most important benefit is the reduction of local air pollution as they have no tailpipe. Due to no tailpipe, no harmful tailpipe pollutants are emitted from the onboard source of power at the point of operation. The Nissan Leaf passed the milestone of 18,094 units sold worldwide in 2013 and more units sold in 2014 than 2013. This is a very great results since it demonstrates that more and more people concern about the environment pollution problem. However, the author found a drop in electric car sales compared to last October and the plug-in hydrid electric car models are considered as the reason. At the end of the article, the author also considered customers waiting for other suppliers’ electric cars as the reason of down sales. I hope that waiting for other suppliers’ electric cars should be the reason, rather than customers could lose interest on electric cars. The manufacturers also need to improve their manufacturing process, reduce their cost of develop, production and operation, and finally reduce the price of electric cars." -By Jia Wang
Article 2 <Global Wind Energy Market Rebounding, Set For “Unspectacular Growth”>
According to Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC), global wind energy market is coming back on the track for 2014 with the help of strong China market and recovering market of United States. It predicts that wind energy market will constantly grow led by China during the next 5 years. Policy support from government is the most important and critical to wind energy market growth, which is the mainstream technology among all renewable energy according to Steve, the General Secretary of GWEC, who forecasted that Wind energy market would be steady if unspectacular.
I had a bachelor degree of Hydraulic and Hydropower Engineering. In my perspective, Water resource is huge but difficult to be utilized in a view of giving positive effect to the environment compared with Wind resource and solar resource in Renewable Energy area. China has been developing dams and other hydropower building for quite a long time. The recently established dam Three Gorges has great a deal of negative effect to the environment being detected. Land in West South of China experienced serious dry condition. North of China, such as Beijing the capital city of China suffered bad air quality and smog weather. The environment has been changed by the huge dam and other hydropower facilities. While wind and solar energy has more positive effect and few negative effect compared with Water energy. I agree with Steve that wind energy market will continuously growing with the increasing human realization of Sustainability.
"In this article, it is exiting to find that the Chinese market has recovered and posted strong (25%) growth in 2013 and the Indian market is ready to start growing again and beginning to realize its potential in that market which so desperately needs new electricity supply. We all know that a pollution haze in Beijing is paid more attention by worldwide. More and more people worry about the Chinese pollution problem, or we can say worry about the pollution problem of developing countries since the developing countries often concerned about only economic profit and ignored the environment. However, from this article, we can find that these countries have begun to realize that green and sustainability are very critical, and they are trying to perfect change their ideas and they do begin making changes." -By Jia Wang
"It is true that wind is now a mainstream technology. Among the very newest report, China is making huge contributions to the data as the leading market. It is great to see that because is illustrates that China are on the right track of evolving to green and sustainable energy instead of gas or coal for example. The other example mentioned in the article is India, which set the wind energy to be doubled in five year, and as it says, thanks to the new policy set to all the countries, which enforce the development of wind energy industry. We can now see the future of wind use, which I believe will be a steady and unspectacular increase." -By Yidi Wang
Article 3 <Ethiopia Electric Power Developing 300 MW Of New Solar Projects>
Solar Power facilities are being established in Ethiopia, which indicates that more and more investment on electric power are flowing into Africa. According to the article, US based Green Technology Africa aid Ethiopian Electric Power (EEP) in the development of 300 MW of new solar projects in Ethiopia with the aim of helping the country hit its goal of expanding electricity capacity to 75% by the end of 2015.
Solar Power has huge potential in Africa. People in Africa are most likely unable to access to electric power. More and more companies, international organizations and advanced Counties are trying to enter Africa market and help this poor world to develop. Sustainability is the new and important standard in helping developing this world. We see companies such as Nestle who has been helping developing Côte d’Ivoire with its education and infrastructure. And by doing so, it benefits Nestle in its cocoa supply chain stay stable.
"Like what I said in the last article, the third world’s countries have begun making changes, and last article gave us the examples of China and India, this article gave us an example of Ethiopia. I am very happy to see that US have helped Ethiopia to hit its goal of expanding 20% electricity capacity by the end of 2015. Environment problem is a world-wide problem since this is a global village. We should work together to make the world a better place." -By Jia Wang
"I believe that it sounds great to everyone that east African countries are innovating and using clean and green powers and energy. The East African of Ethiopia is setting the best example of increasing buildout of solar energy. Besides wind energy, solar energy is another clean and sustainable power that human should make full use of. By making full use of solar energy, Ethiopia is now able to expand its electricity capacity, a 20% increase by the end of 2015 is a huge improve. Not only the convenience that brings to the country, but also a trigger to the begin of new industries in the country such as hydro, geothermal and wind energy projects. All theses new cooperation has a common feature, green and sustainability, which is what we are insisting on under any development." -By Yidi Wang
Resource: http://njit2.mrooms.net/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=43825#p141094
Self Grade: This midterm exams enable me to observer the environment I am associated with to be sensitive with the quality condition around me. It helps me to do more research and think about the problem. I took effort on this Midterm. The recommend grade will be 10/10 as A+.
Article 1 <October Electric Car Sales Report (US)>
According to the article, Electric car market doesn’t seem to be growing, but dropping, during this year, which is not quite normal compared with its previous sales that have been increasing constantly. Some companies have released new version of electric car and created a high sale compared with others, such as BMW i3 of BMW who resulted a third spot with a volume of half of that of Nissan Leaf, the 1st spot company, in the US Plug-in Sale during October 2013 to October 2014. It concluded that one of the reasons for the decrease of electric car sale this year is because of the plug-in electric car models. But the author doesn’t have enough information for why this phenomenon occurred. There are plenty of possible reasons for it.
I think the electric market is complicate. I believe it is just the beginning of the electric car market to grow. There are variation of the market sale, which is normal since you have plenty effect that can influence this market, such as Bull Effect from supply chain. But there is another way to look deeper into this market. Tesla has a significant influence in electric car market. The author of the article didn’t use the date of Tesla because there is no US market in Tesla annual report that has only global report. But we can take a look of Tesla’s 2014 sale of its electric car market to see if the demand of the electric car grows in a worldwide view. If the data shows that there is a huge increasing in its sale, the demand for the electric car will then be optimistic.
From my point of view, I believe the electric car market will grow in a long-term point of view. Maybe it doesn’t seem to be inspiring recently, but it will be the dominated car market in the future since Sustainable Green and Eco-friendly concept are being accepted gradually.
"Electric car is the very recent innovative and developed car model that are not popular to spread out the world. However, several famous automobile industries are in the very front to lead the development of green and sustainable electric car market. Interestingly, the author of the report actually saw an overall drop in electric car sales compared to last October, it is even the first time the professions has seen this. The final reason was that the plug-in hybrid electric car that drops the sale down. It is disappointing that the market is shrinking and as what the author said, the marketing should really be doubling or even tripling, the back reason might be that customers are waiting for better models, but could also be the low demand due to lack to reputation and very new industry, car users need more time to get used to electric cars. However, the electric cars should be highly recommended simply because of its green and sustainability." -By Yidi Wang
"Electric cars have some benefits over conventional internal combustion engine automobiles, in my opinion, the most important benefit is the reduction of local air pollution as they have no tailpipe. Due to no tailpipe, no harmful tailpipe pollutants are emitted from the onboard source of power at the point of operation. The Nissan Leaf passed the milestone of 18,094 units sold worldwide in 2013 and more units sold in 2014 than 2013. This is a very great results since it demonstrates that more and more people concern about the environment pollution problem. However, the author found a drop in electric car sales compared to last October and the plug-in hydrid electric car models are considered as the reason. At the end of the article, the author also considered customers waiting for other suppliers’ electric cars as the reason of down sales. I hope that waiting for other suppliers’ electric cars should be the reason, rather than customers could lose interest on electric cars. The manufacturers also need to improve their manufacturing process, reduce their cost of develop, production and operation, and finally reduce the price of electric cars." -By Jia Wang
Article 2 <Global Wind Energy Market Rebounding, Set For “Unspectacular Growth”>
According to Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC), global wind energy market is coming back on the track for 2014 with the help of strong China market and recovering market of United States. It predicts that wind energy market will constantly grow led by China during the next 5 years. Policy support from government is the most important and critical to wind energy market growth, which is the mainstream technology among all renewable energy according to Steve, the General Secretary of GWEC, who forecasted that Wind energy market would be steady if unspectacular.
I had a bachelor degree of Hydraulic and Hydropower Engineering. In my perspective, Water resource is huge but difficult to be utilized in a view of giving positive effect to the environment compared with Wind resource and solar resource in Renewable Energy area. China has been developing dams and other hydropower building for quite a long time. The recently established dam Three Gorges has great a deal of negative effect to the environment being detected. Land in West South of China experienced serious dry condition. North of China, such as Beijing the capital city of China suffered bad air quality and smog weather. The environment has been changed by the huge dam and other hydropower facilities. While wind and solar energy has more positive effect and few negative effect compared with Water energy. I agree with Steve that wind energy market will continuously growing with the increasing human realization of Sustainability.
"In this article, it is exiting to find that the Chinese market has recovered and posted strong (25%) growth in 2013 and the Indian market is ready to start growing again and beginning to realize its potential in that market which so desperately needs new electricity supply. We all know that a pollution haze in Beijing is paid more attention by worldwide. More and more people worry about the Chinese pollution problem, or we can say worry about the pollution problem of developing countries since the developing countries often concerned about only economic profit and ignored the environment. However, from this article, we can find that these countries have begun to realize that green and sustainability are very critical, and they are trying to perfect change their ideas and they do begin making changes." -By Jia Wang
"It is true that wind is now a mainstream technology. Among the very newest report, China is making huge contributions to the data as the leading market. It is great to see that because is illustrates that China are on the right track of evolving to green and sustainable energy instead of gas or coal for example. The other example mentioned in the article is India, which set the wind energy to be doubled in five year, and as it says, thanks to the new policy set to all the countries, which enforce the development of wind energy industry. We can now see the future of wind use, which I believe will be a steady and unspectacular increase." -By Yidi Wang
Article 3 <Ethiopia Electric Power Developing 300 MW Of New Solar Projects>
Solar Power facilities are being established in Ethiopia, which indicates that more and more investment on electric power are flowing into Africa. According to the article, US based Green Technology Africa aid Ethiopian Electric Power (EEP) in the development of 300 MW of new solar projects in Ethiopia with the aim of helping the country hit its goal of expanding electricity capacity to 75% by the end of 2015.
Solar Power has huge potential in Africa. People in Africa are most likely unable to access to electric power. More and more companies, international organizations and advanced Counties are trying to enter Africa market and help this poor world to develop. Sustainability is the new and important standard in helping developing this world. We see companies such as Nestle who has been helping developing Côte d’Ivoire with its education and infrastructure. And by doing so, it benefits Nestle in its cocoa supply chain stay stable.
"Like what I said in the last article, the third world’s countries have begun making changes, and last article gave us the examples of China and India, this article gave us an example of Ethiopia. I am very happy to see that US have helped Ethiopia to hit its goal of expanding 20% electricity capacity by the end of 2015. Environment problem is a world-wide problem since this is a global village. We should work together to make the world a better place." -By Jia Wang
"I believe that it sounds great to everyone that east African countries are innovating and using clean and green powers and energy. The East African of Ethiopia is setting the best example of increasing buildout of solar energy. Besides wind energy, solar energy is another clean and sustainable power that human should make full use of. By making full use of solar energy, Ethiopia is now able to expand its electricity capacity, a 20% increase by the end of 2015 is a huge improve. Not only the convenience that brings to the country, but also a trigger to the begin of new industries in the country such as hydro, geothermal and wind energy projects. All theses new cooperation has a common feature, green and sustainability, which is what we are insisting on under any development." -By Yidi Wang
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Self Grade: This midterm exams enable me to observer the environment I am associated with to be sensitive with the quality condition around me. It helps me to do more research and think about the problem. I took effort on this Midterm. The recommend grade will be 10/10 as A+.