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To compare Six Sigma™ and Kaizen is a simple question that has no simple answer for these reasons. First, each term has more than one meaning. Second, there are two different levels at which to compare Six Sigma™ and Kaizen. You can compare them at the level of making an improvement to a business process (the simplest level) or at the level of a total approach to implementing Quality within a company. Third, there are many sides to the comparison of these two approaches. I can think of nine different ways to compare them. This means that you need to make the comparison between Six Sigma™ and Kaizen nine times and then, look across those nine comparisons and make a final judgment. Fourth, there is a difference between what people who promote these approaches say and what actually happens in practice. Which do you use to make your comparison? |
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Thursday 12 July, 2007 01:36 PM |
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The technique of Hazard and Operability Studies, or in more common terms HAZOPS, has been used and developed over approximately four decades for 'identifying potential hazards and operability problems' caused by 'deviations from the design intent' of both new and existing process plants. Before progressing further, it might be as well to clarify some aspects of these statements. |
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Thursday 12 July, 2007 01:26 PM |
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There are numerous types of safety studies and techniques; their abundance often leads
to confusion about what safety study should be carried out and when in the asset
lifecycle. Good planning is required to gain the most return for the investment made in
time, effort and money in these studies. Pressures on project budgets and schedules,
and the lack of competent resources in operating companies and service providers has
led to an erosion of the application of good engineering practice (such as the ICI 6 stage
hazard study process). |
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Thursday 12 July, 2007 01:07 PM |
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A computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) is essential for efficiently gathering, sorting, analyzing and acting on critical information related to equipment and facilities performance. Managers use this information to, among other things, set department priorities and justify equipment purchases.
But in too many cases, the CMMS does not produce the desired results, and managers face an array of obstacles in trying to ensure that the software has the capacity to successfully support a department’s mission. |
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Wednesday 11 July, 2007 01:32 PM |
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Throughout the course of this article the term CMMS will apply to the maintenance module of Enterprise Resource Planning systems, Enterprise Asset Management systems and stand-alone maintenance management systems.
In this year literally billions of dollars will be spent, in many different countries, on implementing CMMS and enterprise level systems . Some corporations, such as RIO TINTO and BHP, have attempted to circumvent a lot of this cost by developing implementation templates for use across their global operations. |
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Wednesday 11 July, 2007 01:18 PM |
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Phase one: An unbiased team approach to system selection The latest ARC Advisory Group study of the enterprise asset management (EAM/CMMS) software market profiles more than 80 maintenance application suppliers. This number of choices is enough to make any plant manager shudder. How can you pick the tool that is right for you? Is the decision left to your chief information officer (CIO) who may prefer a specific technology? Should it be the chief financial officer (CFO) who may be partial to the ERP system used for financials that also happens to have a maintenance module? How about the plant manager who is concerned about the growing complexity of regulatory compliance? Or the maintenance manager who may have specific functional needs? If you like what you read - go to stage two, the web page is shown below Phase two: Best practice methodologies for system implementation
http://www.mt-online.com/articles/0605cohesive.cfm |
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Wednesday 11 July, 2007 01:15 PM |
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A recently introduced three dimensional modelling system has dramatically increased customer service levels. It not only facilitates quick turnaround for costs and drawings, but also provides an accurate 3D view of the finished storage solution. |
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Wednesday 11 July, 2007 01:02 PM |
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progeCAD is a computer aided 2D & 3D design program. It's based on the IntelliCAD engine which just happens to be one of AutoCAD's most powerful challengers. Because AutoCAD is the most widely used professional CAD software on the market today, anything that competes in AutoCAD's sandbox has to be able to not only vie for attention in a difficult and entrenched environment, but also provide some incentives to move off the industry standard. ProgeSOFT is a serious company with a serious CAD product and offers extensive technical product support, so we decided to give progeCAD a heavy duty test. We reviewed progeCAD over a two month period in a busy architectural and industrial design studio. The results may surprise you. |
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Wednesday 11 July, 2007 12:53 PM |
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