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5 Reasons to Conduct an ISO Audit (& How to Pass It With Flying Colors)

Completing an ISO audit leads to ISO certification and an increase in sales, employee retention, and quality.

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ISO Processes Uncategorized

ISO 14000: What It Is and How It’ll Help You Save Your Business (and the Earth)

The world as we know it is teetering on the brink.  Since the 19th century, the Earth’s average surface temperature has risen by 2.12 degrees Fahrenheit. Glaciers deplete while oceans get warmer and rise to new, unprecedented physical heights. Average wildlife populations have dropped by a whopping 60% in just over 40 years.  Ultimately, it’s […]

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Health, Safety, Environment, & Quality (HSEQ) Framework

When speaking of workplace safety management, the Health, Safety, Environment, & Quality (HSEQ) framework often comes up. Industries such as mining, oil and energy, engineering, and manufacturing are quite often associated with injury statistics such as the following: But how can you prevent these workplace hazards and promote a safety culture? To prevent incidents such […]

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Ship Repair: Digitizing It

By a Submariner Machinist Mate The earth is about 70% water, yet more people have traveled by plane than those who traveled by cruise ships for vacation. This is measured by revenue at $328 billion vs $35.5 billion respectfully.  Why is this? Some easy answers that come to mind are faster travel times on a […]

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Muda: What It Is & How to Easily Remove Waste In Essential Processes

Waste (aka ‘muda’). It’s something that we just don’t like. From waking up too late and feeling like we’ve wasted time, to wasting food (us Americans waste over 150,000 tonnes of food each day), to walking along a street that’s piled up with garbage, the majority of us don’t want to contribute to or be […]

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How to Create a Safe & Happy Workplace with a Risk Assessment Template

What do BlackBerry, BP, Target, and a large engineering company have in common?  All four organizations failed to assess risk and as a result, suffered hugely (I’ll be divulging the gory details later).  But, BlackBerry, Kodak, Target, and the large engineering firm aren’t the only ones. For the average organization, over 85% of its efforts […]

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Processes Productivity Uncategorized

Process Design: What It Is, Why You Need It, & How To Get It Right

Flat-pack furniture instructions. Do you follow them to a ‘T’ or leave them in the box?  Although it takes me twice as long, I never have the right tools at hand, and I always have to re-build parts – I rarely follow instructions when building my flat-pack wardrobes, chairs, and tables.  Why?  Because they can […]

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Manufacturing Processes: How to Truly Take Control of Factory Floor Operations

Nobody expected a world-changing pandemic to happen in 2020.  If we did, we would have prepared better. Especially those of us who play a fundamental part in supply chains — like the manufacturers, whose essential items and products need to keep being made, and whose teams were unable to pivot to working from home as most […]

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FREE COVID-19 Procedure App

Our hearts go out to all the front-line teams across the world dealing with the COVID-19 virus. We want to help by offering FAT FINGER our Digital Procedure software for free for any COVID-19 related procedure, form, checklist or data collection tool. Our intention is to help teams of all types operate as safe and […]