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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...
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...
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...
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...
Using 3D Scanning with Condition Assessments
By: Daniel Bachinski As a project engineer on the Structural Team at Pearl Engineering, I’ve had the privilege to be trained with the Faro 3D Laser Scanner. The 3D scanner is something that has become an integral part of our workflow at Pearl Engineering across all...