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Competitive Product Design Sure to Impress
Whether you are looking for a product to improve the efficiency of one of your processes or you are looking to improve the effectiveness of an existing product, every product starts as an idea. Whether it is a rough idea that exists in concept only or one nearly fully...
What You Need to Know When Installing a New Electrical Circuit
If your facility is preparing for the installation or updating of new equipment, whether it is something as simple as a new water fountain or as important as an industrial press, you are going to have to deal with the important task of providing power to the...
Line Balancing: Calculating an Optimal Process
In a previous article, we covered the importance of improving process efficiency through process mapping, or a graphical representation and breakdown of how something gets done. Using a process map, you can identify potential bottlenecks and other breakdowns in the...
Improving Process Efficiency with Process Mapping
Regardless of the situation, whether it is completing a simple task like filing paperwork or creating a physical product, efficiency in executing the day-to-day processes of a business is crucial to success. Non-value added time, idle time, and other bottlenecks that...
How Project Management is Evolving
Our Pearls of Wisdom educational topics and programs have really been expanding this year, and we hope that you have found them interesting, informative, and that you’ve learned a few things along the way. We are very proud of the documents and webinars we have been...
The Importance of Condition Assessments
Recently, like many people do, I had my annual health physical including having lab tests and analysis, an examination and a consultation with my doctor. Sounds like a good idea right? From this annual practice, we can all learn about: the general condition of our...
Industrial Facility Electrical Condition Assessment
Written by Susan Rice The electrical systems within an industrial facility are rarely thought of until the lights, HVAC systems, motors, communications, and/or the powered process systems stop working. The they are immediately thought of but unfortunately by then...
3-D Scanning Capabilities
3-D Scanning Capabilities Spend your lunch hour as Shane Burkart & Mike Evans lead a discussion on our 3-D Faro Scanning Capabilities. This webinar focuses on: Crane Support Platform Design Replacement Stack Design Fall Protection Roof HVAC & Air Makeup...
Everything Power Boilers
Everything Power Boilers Spend your lunch hour as Mike Anderson leads a hot and powerful discussion on power boilers. The webinar will focus on: General Inspection of Power Boilers • The Do's & Dont's • Furnace Mapping Combustion & Efficiency • Backend...
Are you Code Compliant? Why it’s Important!
The National Building Code was established in 1905 by the National Board of Fire Underwriters, in response to public safety concern after numerous disasters such as the Great Chicago Fire. In 1915 the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) published the...