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Need to boost semiconductor fab efficiency? Look to maintenance

McKensey

Equipment recovery, planned maintenance, and parts management can increase semiconductor fabs’ equipment availability and efficiencies.

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Is the workplace experience shaped more by maintenance or by design?

Workplace Insight

Kelvin Bromley of commercial furniture manufacturer Connection has his doubts, “Do people have respect for the things in their office? There is also an issue around the cleaning and maintenance regimes. It feels like any lack of end user engagement and flaws with maintenance are a symptom of decisions made earlier: specification. .

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Going In Circles? Good!

All Work

Designers encourage product manufacturers to include recycled content, lower VOCs, streamline manufacturing processes and track embodied carbon. The Carbon Leadership Forum defines embodied carbon as “greenhouse gas emissions arising from the manufacturing, transportation, installation, maintenance and disposal of building materials.”

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Lockers: The New Unexpected Star Of Workspace Design

All Work

It’s important for product designers and retailers to understand their embodied carbon emissions , which relate to the manufacturing, processing, transportation, assembly, maintenance, replacement, and deconstruction and disposal of goods. 80% of Teknion’s component parts are manufactured in-house, they add. “For

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Everything You Need To Know To Ensure ITAR Compliance (in 2023)

The Receptionist

manufacturing company and three separate U.S. Export Control Law that affects the manufacturing, sales, and distribution of certain technologies, technology products, software, and services. All manufacturers, exporters, and brokers of defense articles, defense services, and related technical data must be ITAR compliant.

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RADAR and the Dignity of Risk-Taking

Mad in America

They concluded that no differences in social functioning were found between the group randomized to dose reduction compared to those randomized to maintenance treatment, but the risk of severe relapse was significantly increased in the dose reduction group. We are not sure this is the most urgent next step.

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The U.S. Needs More Tradespeople and Women Are Answering the Call

Success

While the manufacturing industry emerged strong after the COVID-19 pandemic, it could be facing up to 1.9 million unfilled manufacturing jobs if the current trajectory doesn’t change. “At With a projected 650,000 construction jobs open in the U.S.