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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...
Meet Structural Engineer Hunter Linssen
Hunter Linssen is a project engineer within Pearl Engineering’s structural engineering department, and one of the company’s youngest engineers. While in some companies being young may cause you to stick out, that is far from the case at Pearl Engineering. For years,...
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...
Using the National Electrical Code for a Well “Grounded” Design
It is common for clients to disregard Grounding as an unimportant part of an Electrical design and adhere to the attitude “it’s just Grounding”. We are discussing Grounding as part of National Code Month because we feel it is categorically the most important part of...
Safety by Design Panel Discussion
This panel discussion will focus on how the Engineering Cycle is used by the disciplines of Structural, Mechanical, and Electrical Engineering to evaluate and design safety into projects on the front end and reduce the dependence on safety rules to prevent accidents...