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9 or 10 Reasons to Buy Local
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| It's not just price and convenience. Many factors deserve consideration when choosing how and where to spend your money. Buying local is one of them- after all, it’s your town- you live there! |
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Exports and parliamentary laziness
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| There are few moments at which business executives may safely weep and earn nothing but respect and admiration. One of these is at the opening of a new manufacturing plant. |
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Characteristics of Effective Shift Work Schedules
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| At a minimum, an effective schedule should: (1) keep your best and/or most expensive equipment productive, i.e. maximize your equipment utilization, (2) provide continuous coverage in areas that have significant start-up and shutdown costs, (3) match the coverage to the workload (in other words, provide enough coverage to get the necessary work done, and no more), (4) have the ability to flex up to meet customer demands, flex down when workload is low, and (5) not be constrained by pay and work policies that make normal operating situations excessively expensive.
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Plant Design, Production Floor Design, Factory Layout Design, Factory Floor Plan, Plant Layout,
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| Techniques of Plant Design, Layout Plant, Floor Plan, Plant Layout, or the physical organization of people, materials and machines within a workplace, is at the very heart of productivity.
Yes, layout requires fitting workstations into a building floor plan but that is the last step. First define the operating characteristics of your process, and a new layout will be much easier to plan, and more effective when implemented.
Jack Greene is the author of the Amazon book in print and Kindle editions, Plant Design, Facility Layout, Floor Planning. Please search Amazon for this title. It goes into greater detail than this article, and includes examples of layouts designed to fit into particular building shapes.
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The Only Steps You Need To Get Your Dream Job
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| With outsourcing, downsizing and plant shutdowns increasing, more and more people are finding themselves competing with youthful college graduates as well as their friends for the ever-shrinking supply of desirable jobs.
Who do you think gets the best job? |
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How To Keep Your Business Afloat
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| I was talking with my good friend Doug Maurer the other day. Doug is the founder and owner of Brian-Kyles Construction, which is a landscaping company based in Northeast Ohio.
Doug was talking with me about a plant in my front yard that wasn't doing so well. He was explaining how I should cut the shrub down to its base to re-balance the plant so the roots were larger than the plant itself. And then he said a magical quote, "plants don't want to die."
It got me to thinking about how businesses are a lot like plants. Businesses don't want to die either. This is particularly true of small businesses. |
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How Do I Keep My Business Afloat?
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| "Plants don't want to die."
Doug Maurer, Brian-Kyles Construction
I was talking with my good friend Doug Maurer the other day. Doug is the founder and owner of Brian-Kyles Construction, which is a landscaping company based in Northeast Ohio.
Doug was talking with me about a plant in my front yard that wasn't doing so well. He was explaining how I should cut the shrub down to its base to re-balance the plant so the roots were larger than the plant itself. And then he said the quote above regarding plants not wanting to die.
It got me to thinking about how businesses are a lot like plants. Businesses don't want to die either. This is particularly true of small businesses. |
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Leadership Tips for the Manager Who is Too Easy
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| The Plant Manager was becoming increasingly frustrated. His production manager was struggling to meet plant performance targets and was not getting his team to take ownership of achieving results. The initial diagnosis was that the production manager was being too easy on his team. As with most management problems, only two or three behaviours cause the majority of aggravation and frustration. Here we examine how to help an easy-going manager achieve what needs to get done. |
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Total Productive Maintanance Techniques
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| TPM is an innovative Japanese concept. The origin of TPM can be traced back to 1951 when preventive maintenance was introduced in Japan. However the concept of preventive maintenance was taken from USA. Thus all employees took part in implementing Productive maintenance. Based on these developments Nippondenso was awarded the distinguished plant prize for developing and implementing TPM, by the Japanese Institute of Plant Engineers (JIPE). |
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Speak Positive!
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| Plant good thoughts in your mind by speaking positively |
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Balance the Drive to Attain with the Need to Sustain
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| If you live in the desert, you’ve undoubtedly seen these spires. They are quite amazing. But if we watch them grow for too long, they begin to sap all of the nutrients from the rest of the actual plant and it eventually dries up and dies. |
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