The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about 3,900 times in 2011. If it were a NYC subway train, it would take about 3 trips to carry that many people. Click here to [...]
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2011 in review
Posted in Uncategorized on January 3, 2012 | 1 Comment »
MBWA
Posted in Business, Uncategorized, tagged ASME, ASME Certified, ASME Denver, ASME Pressure Vessels, ASME Pressure Vessels Welding Denver Co. Precision Pipe & Vessel Economy, ASME stamps, boost productiviety, Code Welding, flawless execution, Inspiration, MBWA, Precision Pipe, project team, Weld Proceedures, Welding Denver on May 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
One of my favorite things about working here at Precision is that we practice Manage By Wandering Around. (MBWA as Introduced by Peters/ Waterman in the book, In Search of Excellence) While the authors were doing research for the book they interviewed HP President John Young who explained what the term meant and its importance [...]
Knowledge – Who Needs It?
Posted in Business, Uncategorized, tagged build confidence, client importance, continuing education, ongoing education, Precision Pipe, Project Development, Project Management, project plan, staff diversity, team building, Welding Shop in Denver on January 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Once you have determined what you want, it’s time to find out what you need
2010 Lessons Learned?
Posted in ASME, Business, Project Management, Uncategorized, Welding, tagged ASME, ASME Certified, ASME Denver, ASME Pressure Vessels, ASME Pressure Vessels Welding Denver Co. Precision Pipe & Vessel Economy, Fabrication, Weld Proceedures, welding on January 6, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
New Year, new beginnings- same results? That is not so bad when the last year was successful – or is it? Recently, I have noticed that I am currently NOT doing much in the way of self-improvement other than maintaining the successful practices I have adopted last year. On the surface this seems benign – [...]
2010 in review
Posted in Uncategorized on January 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health: The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads This blog is doing awesome!. Crunchy numbers The Leaning Tower of Pisa has 296 steps to reach the top. This blog was viewed about 1,200 times in [...]
Repairs of ASME Pressure Vessels
Posted in ASME, Business, Uncategorized, Welding, tagged ASME, ASME Certified, ASME Code, ASME Denver, ASME Pressure Vessels, ASME Qualified, ASME qualified ASME certified Welding Denver Fabrication Code ASME code, ASME Welding, Precision Pipe, R stamp, Welding Denver on November 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
ASME does not actually have a “Code” for the repair of Section VIII, Division 1 pressure vessels. Repairs fall under the Nation Board of Inspectors Code (NBIC).
Economy Getting You Down?
Posted in Uncategorized on October 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Economy? From a blog created by a fabrication and welding shop? What gives? Well, the economy affects us all and there have been reports that many fabrication shops are having tough times out there. If this applies to you, try not to fret and utilize your newly discovered spare time accordingly. Now is the time [...]
Policies and Procedures
Posted in ASME, Business, Project Management, Uncategorized, Welding, tagged ASME, ASME Code, ASME Denver, ASME Pressure Vessels Welding Denver Co. Precision Pipe & Vessel Economy, ASME Qualified, ASME qualified ASME certified Welding Denver Fabrication Code ASME code, boost productiviety, Welding Denver, Welding Shop in Denver on October 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
We recently avoided a costly mistake. Our vendor had issued a quote on materials for a job that our customer needed expedited. Throughout the chaos of organizing resources, work space, and reading through material quotes, it would have been somewhat understandable for us to award the materials to the lowest bidder and tell them to [...]
Information is power and is necessary.
Posted in Uncategorized on August 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Information. It’s better to have too much than too little. This should be obvious, and yet there are still people out there that do not want to give out enough information. In the fabrication industry, this is not good. Sure, there is a certain freedom in having fabricators do what they want and what they [...]
Dew Point Processing Plants
Posted in ASME, Uncategorized, tagged ASME, ASME Certified, ASME Denver, ASME Pressure Vessels, ASME Pressure Vessels Welding Denver Co. Precision Pipe & Vessel Economy, ASME Section VIII, ASME stamps, ASME Welding, boilers, boost productiviety, client importance, Code Welding, Cost Savings, Denver Code Shop, Denver Welding, Dew Point, Dew Point Plant, Fabrication, flawless execution, Gas Processing, Heat Exchangers, Natural Gas, Natural Gas Liquids, NGL, Oil Field Equipment, Precision Pipe, Project Management, project plan, project success, Refrigeration Compressor, Refrigeration Plant, Used ASME Vessels, Used Gas Equipment, Welding Denver, work load on June 17, 2010 | 2 Comments »
When it was all said and done we shipped a modern gas plant to our customer