Abstract: A company is compared to a generic company model to identify differences between the company and the generic company model. The generic company model includes a work model that describes sequences of tasks that form processes performed within a generic company and a persona model that describes generic personas in the generic company and tasks that each generic persona performs. The differences between the generic company model and the company are used to modify the generic company model to form a company-specific model.

Abstract: A method of managing supply chain exceptions includes identifying a root cause of an exception in the supply chain, creating at least one checkpoint related to the identified root cause of the exception, creating resolution alternatives to address the root cause of the exception, adding the checkpoint into an enterprise management system and adding the resolution alternatives to address the root cause of the exception into the enterprise management system.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a stand, such as a lighting stand used by disc jockeys and other entertainers to illuminate any portion of a stage, their work station or equipment, or the dance floor. The invention is directed to a stand that has hollow structural elements, through which electrical wires and other cables and wires can be passed therethrough. By passing the wires and cables through the structural elements, rather than on the exterior of the structural elements, a more neat and tidy stand is obtained.

Abstract: The invention relates to a wide belt sander for the treatment of surfaces of materials where the sanding belt 3 is provided on the sliding contact 6 pressing against the blank 1 with air discharge perforations 10 and 11 provided on the lower side of the sliding contact for the formation of a dynamic air cushion 18 between sliding contact 6 and sanding belt 3. A pair of shims are located on opposite sides of the sliding contact 6 and are aligned with the lateral edges of the sanding belt to provide sliding surfaces for the edges and a sealing edge for the air cushion.

Abstract: A pneumatic vehicle tire with at least two tread strips separated from each other by circumferential grooves and including belt-like reinforcements between the tread strips and the radial carcass while each tread strip has associated therewith a belt the width of which substantially corresponds to the width of the tread strips. Within the region of the belts, at least between these belts, there are provided thread-shaped strength carriers which together with the circumferential direction of the tire define an angle within the range of from 0.degree. to 10.degree..

Abstract: A slightly bulged outwardly arched pneumatic vehicle tire having a tread which is narrow in relation to the width of the tire. The tire also has a belt which is pull-resistant in the circumferential direction of the tire and effects the lateral stabilization of the tire. Portions of the belt are arranged on both sides of and adjacent to the tread in sections of the tire sidewalls which are essentially cylindrical or slightly conical. In addition, the reinforcing inserts form the belt. Those reinforcing inserts located in the tire sidewalls form a considerably smaller angle with the circumferential direction of the tire than do those reinforcing inserts located below the tread.

Abstract: Pneumatic vehicle tires having a carcass with a tread strip centrally arranged thereon. The carcass freely spans the wheel rim and is only slightly outwardly curved when in a non-depressed condition. At its rim area the carcass is deflected by means of its arc of curvature towards the tire beads which are reinforced with pull-resistant cores. The carcass has a thickness which continuously decreases from its maximum thickness in the region of the tire bead to a fraction thereof at the edges of the tread strip. The carcass is provided with two fabric plies which are looped around the cores. Decreasing in distance between each other, the two plies extend beneath the tread strips. In the arc of curvature the two plies surround an elastic, deformable, incompressible intermediate layer which has an approximately wedge-shaped cross section.

Abstract: A pneumatic tire for motor vehicles having a circumferential tread surface with molded-in grooves extending in a direction transverse to the circumferential direction of the tire, in which the grooves extend from a central circumferential tread surface section of the tire toward both lateral tire sides while following the curvature of a parabola of a second order.

Abstract: A vehicle wheel having a pneumatic tire which is only slightly outwardly arched or crowned and which has a carcass and a centrally located tread strip. The tread strip has sharply defined edges and has a length approximately one third the width of the freely extended axial length of the tire body. The tire body is deflected sectionwise inwardly under a rated load in such a way that the carcass changes from a convex configuration to a concave one, in the process of which the carcass layers radially inwardly of the contact surface edges experience an angle variation of from 10.degree. to 30.degree..