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The Cleanroom Wiper Usage Audit
Cost reduction is no longer just a part of the overall continuous program; it is the critical requirement for survival.
Management Tip
Ten Steps to Long Term Conflict Management
The situation is out of control and you don’t have time to deal with it. So what do you do?
Management Tip
Are You a Starter AND a Finisher?
One of the "things" that great managers tend to do more and more effectively is follow-through. Every manager intends to follow-through, but only those who have structured their time and work to ensure it are consistently successful.
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Green Cleaning - Consider the cleaning process, not just the cleaning agent
You cannot be green and you cannot assure the safety of the worker based on selecting a supposedly safe and/or green cleaning agent. A supposedly green cleaning process that puts a high proportion of your product in the landfill may not be green for your purposes.
Management Tip
The Three Big Mistakes in Writing Client Proposals
The three typical mistakes highlighted are not just commonplace; they are BIG mistakes and can often result in the proposal being rejected or worse, simply ignored. With a bit of re-thinking about what constitutes a good proposal, you can produce proposals that create more positive impact.
Cleanroom Tip
The Value of 3rd Party Certification
Once you have your cleanroom constructed, the HVAC system balanced, and the room(s) precision cleaned, your cleanroom is now ready to be certified to the classification of cleanliness it was designed to.
Management Tip
Five Ways to Really Tick Off Your Employees
Most of us know at least one person who will be jumping ship as soon as they can. Employees appear to be getting angrier everyday and their employers keep throwing more wood into the fire. If you really want to heat things up, then be sure to do these five things.
Cleanroom Tip
Gowning Practices
Proper gowning and gowning procedures reduce, but do not eliminate person-generated particles.
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Five Myths about Leadership
One of the best ways to understand principles is to understand their opposites. John Maxwell explains the leadership principle of influence through the five myths about leadership.
Cleanroom Tip
Controlling Cavitation Energy
In almost all cleaning applications, it is important to control the cavitation energy. When an insufficient amount of cavitation energy is provided, undesirably long process times may be required to obtain a desired level of cleaning, or in some cases, a desired level of surface cleaning may not be achievable.
Management Tip
What Employers Can Do About Employee Satisfaction
A 2009 survey, by the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) looked at 24 factors that are regularly thought to relate to employee satisfaction. The study found that employees identified these five most important factors:
Cleanroom Tip
Establishing and Implementing an Environmental Monitoring Program for Non-Sterile Operations
There are several positive advantages of establishing and implementing an environmental monitoring program.
Cleanroom Tip
Keep Product Clean In and Out of the Cleanroom
The first step in developing an effective precision cleaning process for the product is to determine where cleaning can be avoided. Keeping the product clean, particularly during transfer and storage, is an important part of your contamination control program.
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Ten Things to Make You a Better Manager
Here are ten things you can do to become a better manager. Pick one. Do it today. Pick another one for tomorrow. In two weeks you will be a better manager.
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How to Double Your Productivity — Leadership
Don’t underestimate the small things that will have a big impact.
Leaders waste huge amounts of effort, money, and time doing things with little impact or results.
Cleanroom Tip
Keep the Product Clean
Paperwork, raw materials for manufacturing the product, tools, and equipment must be successfully transferred to the cleanroom. The goal of a materials transfer program is to keep contamination from the outside world from entering the cleanroom.
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Top 10 Don'ts When You Fire an Employee
Firing an employee is stressful for all parties – not just for the employee losing a job. No matter how well you’ve communicated about performance problems with the employee, almost no one believes that they will actually get fired.
Cleanroom Tip
Cleaning Protocol Training
Training, based on written protocols, is essential for proper cleaning of a cleanroom.Cleanroom personnel should have a good understanding of how and what they are to clean and why. They will perform much better if they know what they are expected to do.
Management Tip
The Management Octagon
Jack Welch, the great corporate giant who turned GE into a huge success, had a way of simplifying matters —he said that all things that are important in a business are the same: people, quality, service and cash flow. He mentioned a number of his strategies and insights for managerial and organizational success in his books and lectures. The following eight (the management octagon if you like) are some favorites…
Cleanroom Tip
How does the customer understand cleanroom wiper data?
How then does the customer understand the cleanroom wiper data presented and the degree of comparability between data presented by cleanroom wiper manufacturers?
Let's begin with a basic primer on the critical wiper data reported by most cleanroom wiper manufacturers in product data/information sheets:
Cleanroom Tip
Converting From an Uncontrolled Space to a Cleanroom
We are shifting our focus to manufacturing in a certified ISO Class 8 environment. We are converting a controlled manufacturing area into soft wall cleanroom with fan filter units providing the HEPA filtered air for the cleanroom. Where do I find information about cleaning of this cleanroom area, what garments our operators must wear, and personnel behavior while working in this new cleanroom?
Management Tip
Leadership: Performance Management
Business leaders often put off addressing challenges or won’t commit to an improvement process because they either don’t know where to start, don’t know what to do, or they think developing or refining their existing management process will be too complex.
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What kind of manager are you?
Helping and managing others is hard without understanding what kind of person you are and what areas you can improve in.
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Can You Hear Me Now?
Do you find yourself partially listening, letting your mind drift, and/or formulating your response even before the other person has finished what they are saying? If so, active listening might be the answer to better your communication skills.
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Five Leadership Tactics That Will Make 2010 a Pivotal Business Year
Want to make a New Year’s Resolution that not only pulls you out of your recession slump but actually has staying power? Quint Studer, author of Straight A Leadership, offers five simple tips for turning it all around…fast.