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Chapter 5
the tomatoes to be used as ingredients. The results showed that the tc–hd and tc–ac knowledge connections were reported more frequently, 26 and 28 times respectively, than the fd–hd and fd–ac knowledge connections, reported four and two times respectively. The students themselves chose the knowledge connections they wished to report, allowing for the constraint of reporting one knowledge connection in research phase III and one knowledge connection in research phase IV (see chapter 5.4.2).
Table 5.5 An illustration of reported knowledge connections per category of knowledge connection
Category of knowledge connection
The made disciplinary knowledge connection is:
fd–hd
“On page 19, I explained how the combination between lack of knowledge of employees (managerial) and variability in ripeness of incoming tomatoes (technological), can lead to a situation where employees will let through the unripe tomatoes for using them in the company CMC meals”
fd–ac
“As the Industry Guide for Beef Aging stated, to improve the consistency of beef tenderness, post-mortem aging should be managed with respect to both individual muscle and USDA Quality Grade. USDA Select beef muscles required approximately 20 days or more of post-mortem aging to complete a majority of the aging response. [...]”.
tc–hd
“The R&D department need to find the best gas composition in modified atmosphere packaging for pork to meet their customer demand. On the other hand, people in marketing department need to improve their knowledge on measuring colour performance of the customers, so that they can know which colour is their customer’s demand, then communicate with R&D department via information system, so that R&D department can design the best gas composition in the modified atmosphere packaging”
tc–ac
“According to the literature the reason that company CMC lab does not have suitable equipment may be because there are not enough finances made available to the incoming material control lab in order to acquire the best suitable equipment. Thus another solution will have to be found to increase the finances available to the lab by making the people in control of the finances aware of the need for suitable equipment and convincing them of the impact the suitable equipment will have on the sales of the final product and evidently contributing to a more positive financial situation for the company CMC in the long term”
Note: the text addressing the four perspectives (fd, tc, hd, s ac) is bold printed. 100