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SNIPS December 2018

2018 December

Check out the December 2018 edition of SNIPS: Lessons in lean, shop layout & safety, tools and more!

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Your operational lean objectives

Oakland University professor of lean studies Robert Van Til, Ph.D., teaches you to apply continuous improvement concepts into your shop operations
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Emell Derra Adolphus
November 30, 2018
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One of the most common misconceptions about lean manufacturing techniques is that they only apply to large-scale operations. Lean is the continuous improvement of operations to cut down wastes. “What lean tends to do is look at the system and try to identify what adds value,” explains Robert Van Til, Ph.D., professor of lean studies at the Oakland University School of Engineering and Computer Science and chair of the Industrial Systems and Engineering Department. 


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Assessing the hurricane damage in Panama City, Florida

December 7, 2018
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What happens when a hurricane is your workspace? Such was the case when licensed mechanical contractor Christopher Molnar was tasked with the recovery and inspection of HVAC equipment from residential and commercial sites in Panama City, Florida, soon after Hurricane Matthew ripped through its neighborhoods.


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Beat 'sick building syndrome' with thermal fogging

Arthur Martin
October 31, 2018
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While giving a recent seminar, I commented to the audience how great the breakfast was. There were many choices of food and drink available to satisfy different tastes. After making that comment I asked a simple question; “You all got to choose what you ate and what you drank this morning but which one of you got to choose the air you breathed?” 


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