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Do your Excel files print-out into un-formatted pages that require rework and are unsightly? Do your clients and co-workers cringe when you send an Excel file that they need to print for analysis or use? For an example of how … Read More

Read the article here: The Ultimate Skills Challenge — Pipe vs. Plate Welder. Related: Effective Supplier Quality Surveillance (SQS). Note This article was originally published by the AWS Welding Journal in the December 2015 Vol. 94 No. 12 edition https://www.aws.org/publications/weldingjournal and by FABTECH 8-Jan-16 https://www.fabtechexpo.com/blog/2016/01/08/the-ultimate-skills-challenge-pipe-vs-plate-welder/. About … Read More

Factory Acceptance Testing (FAT) is used to verify equipment compliance to project requirements and specifications INTRODUCTION When an internet search reveals limited results, it may be for one of two reasons.  The first is that few people are interested in, … Read More

There are IT solutions for SQS that are better and truer than shared folders and MS Excel INTRODUCTION Shared folders and MS Excel spreadsheets are tried and true, but there are information technology (IT) solutions for supplier quality surveillance (SQS) … Read More

Here are more tips for meals that are a business expense and getting reimbursed INTRODUCTION The article How to Tip Your Server at a Restaurant offers excellent advice about tipping.  This includes information about international norms and provides an easy … Read More

If you think that MTR turnover to owner-users is always required, think again! It is a commonly held belief with oil & gas (O&G), oil sands, and pipeline projects that material test reports (MTRs) are always required for turnover to … Read More

Quality Definitions for EP Projects Several quality-related terms are often used interchangeably by engineering and procurement (EP) projects and their clients or suppliers to describe various activities, but in fact, these have different meanings (e.g., Quality Assurance/Quality Control [QA/QC]).  Related: … Read More

And Make it Easy for Clients to Choose Your Services INTRODUCTION There are oceans of information on the internet and in other resources for writing an employment curriculum vitae (CV) or resume (see Figure, 1), but a search for information … Read More

Note: This article is the sixth in a series of six that appeared in the Canadian Institute for NDE (CINDE) Journal throughout 2012.  These articles address valuable business ideas for identifying, understanding, improving, enhancing, expanding, and collaborating NDE services in … Read More

Note: This article is the fifth in a series of six that appeared in the Canadian Institute for NDE (CINDE) Journal throughout 2012. These articles address valuable business ideas for identifying, understanding, improving, enhancing, expanding, and collaborating NDE services in … Read More