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Yield management is a variable pricing strategy, based on understanding, anticipating and influencing consumer behavior in order to maximize revenue or profits from a fixed, time-limited resource (such as airline seats or hotel room reservations or advertising inventory).

As a specific, inventory-focused branch of revenue management, yield management involves strategic control of inventory to sell the right product to the right customer at the right time for the right price.

This process can result in price discrimination, in which customers consuming identical goods or services are charged different prices.

Yield management is a large revenue generator for several major industries; Robert Crandall, former Chairman and CEO of American Airlines, gave yield management its name and has called it "the single most important technical development in transportation management since we entered deregulation.".

Automatic process control in continuous production processes is a combination of control engineering and chemical engineering disciplines that uses industrial control systems to achieve a production level of consistency, economy and safety which could not be achieved purely by human manual control.

It is implemented widely in industries such as oil refining, pulp and paper manufacturing, chemical processing and power generating plants.

Metrology is the science of measurement.

It establishes a common understanding of units, crucial in linking human activities.

Modern metrology has its roots in the French Revolution's political motivation to standardise units in France, when a length standard taken from a natural source was proposed.

This led to the creation of the decimal-based metric system in 1795, establishing a set of standards for other types of measurements.

Several other countries adopted the metric system between 1795 and 1875; to ensure conformity between the countries, the Bureau International des Poids et Mesures (BIPM) was established by the Metre Convention.

This has evolved into the International System of Units (SI) as a result of a resolution at the 11th Conference Generale des Poids et Mesures (CGPM) in 1960.

A system is a regularly interacting or interdependent group of units forming an integrated whole.

Every system is delineated by its spatial and temporal boundaries, surrounded and influenced by its environment, described by its structure and purpose and expressed in its functioning.

The ampere (symbol: A), often shortened to "amp", is the base unit of electric current in the International System of Units (SI).

It is named after André-Marie Ampère (1775–1836), French mathematician and physicist, considered the father of electrodynamics.