Looking for Talent? Go to School

A critical source for workforce inventory and an overlooked strategy for filling the talent pipeline, internships create a unique candidate pool.

Winning the Battle and the War - Negotiation Success

Everyday we enter into a variety of negotiations with prospective employees, current employees, and vendors. Though the situations are different, there are some basic guidelines that will ensure negotiation success.

Team Leadership - The Power of Team Leadership in Business

Do you want to get greater results from your team? This article will show you how to strengthen the unity of your team and add positive changes to the bottom line. Improve your position in the market place through increased productivity.

Industrial Safety Can Be Funny

How useful are your protective equipment if your workers are not using them? How do you ensure that your workers remember safety guidelines and avoid dangerous practices? Or observe good safety practices when nobody supervises them? Somehow, people need to get it into their subconscious mind to want to follow safety rules and regulations. If not it will be an uphill task for the safety practitioner. Do they have to wield the big stick like a policeman and play a cat-and-mouse game all the time?

Industrial Floors Use Color Coding to Communicate

Language is no problem when color-coded floor markings make the job as simple as matching colors. Mistakes are all too easy to make and even easier when language problems compound them. Now that we know how to get colored epoxy floor coatings down to stay, why not take advantage of them? Color coding pallet positions to correspond to color-coded conveyer belts is one way. Items coming off the yellow conveyer go to pallets on the yellow markings. Blue conveyer items go to blue conveyer pallet locations. Or, red spaces can be assigned for fire equipment and hose outlets, blue markings for water lines, and white markings for electrical panels and outlets. For traffic lanes, why not a yellow path rather than small taped lines? Following the yellow brick road worked for Dorothy and it can work for the rest of us.

Industrial Safety

This article discusses safety issues regarding industrial companies and ways to ensure the safety of individuals working in these areas. Safety equipment and safety wear are also discussed.

Laser Marking and Laser Etching on Glass for Industrial Applications

Co2 laser marking for glass used in industrial applications is a fast, effective and inexpensive method to mark the product.

Electronic Optical Flow Sensors and Truck Wash Robotics Discussed

Currently in the truck washing robotics manufacturing industry electronic optical flow sensors are not used. Some of the newer systems use optical sensors but not optical flow sensors. The truck washing industry also uses sonar sensors for soap float levels and other things but optical flow sensors have yet not been deployed.

5 Must Have Power Tools for Every Toolbox

With so many power tool options on the market today, it can be quite difficult to sort out what you truly need from what you think you need (or want). Whether you’ve been building and woodworking for dozens of years

Car Wash Industry Surveys and Reality Check

As a self-proclaimed industry analyst spanning many sub-sectors of our economy I always find it fascinating to study Industry Surveys although I never seem to quite trust the data. Why you ask? Because it always seems that I will read one research paper or survey, which says one thing and another, which says something different.

Heavy Equipment Financing Brings Big Benefits to Businesses

Machines, whether new or used, should be solid, offer safety features and must be in good repair.

Cranes Explained

Cranes used in the construction industry are mostly temporary structures either mounted on a vehicle which is built for the specific purpose of carrying the crane, or fixed to the ground. Cranes may be controlled by various methods such as radio control, infrared control or a built in control station using a push button pendant or by an operator sitting in the cab of the vehicle.

Types of Construction Equipment and Their Uses

Construction equipment range from the very heavy equipment to the portable and mobile lighter equipment, some of them with a precise description of their functions are detailed below. Engineering equipment with a front bucket/shovel and a small backhoe in the rear combined with a tractor is known as backhoe loader. It is mostly used in small construction sites and in urban engineering such as fixing city roads.