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2011 in review

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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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 [...]

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Once you have determined what you want, it’s time to find out what you need

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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 – [...]

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2010 in review

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 [...]

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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).

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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When it was all said and done we shipped a modern gas plant to our customer

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