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• Funding A business- how to get a 'YES' - By: Sheila Elliott
  This is part one of my tips for funding a business successfully. A business can raise finance from personal savings, grant, loans or equity capital. All these finance options have their pros and cons which must be carefully assessed and evaluated to determine the best fit for a specific business type.
• Free Timesheet - How Much Do Interruptions Cost You? - By: Philip Doherty
  Interruptions could be having a large impact on your company's bottom line, Iin terms of both time and cost.
• Driving Without Insuring Is A Risk That Should Not Be Taken - By: Marcy Byrd
  A car is a mode of transportation that helps in commuting short as well as long distances. Nowadays, owning a car is a necessity for individuals and families, alike. However, there are certain criteria that have to be fulfilled if you want to own a car.
• Leveraging Kanban For Metal Fabricators - By: Reto Hug
  Kanban was developed by Toyota and means "visual card" in Japanese. Kanban helps businesses employ just-in-time (JIT) production. It is employed as a signal that is emitted through the supply chain to tell employees when a supply is needed. For example, if a card is put at the bottom of a box of supplies with information about the supply on it, the staff member that uses up the last of that carton of supplies takes the card and sends it on to the supply manufacturing area so that more can be sent for. More are only ordered when the previous supply is used up.
• Quality Management Through Process Control In Metal Fabrication - By: Reto Hug
  Perpetuating product quality is essential to any organization. Taking a broader stance, maintaining product quality can be achieved via controlling the quality of the methods that it takes to fabricate that product. An example of process control would be to take measurements of something when it is operating at its best so that the calculations can be compared to measurements in the future, to make sure that top quality functions are still in place. For example, strain on machine frames can be assessed via a strain monitor to assess quality. The machine's frame strain must have been measured when it was operating optimally and producing quality parts so that measurements from that assessment may be used as a control to assess against when the machine starts acting in a manner that is not best. This can help measure the entire production process. Monitoring processes for discrepancies is a revolutionary new method of looking at quality assurance rather than looking for flaws in parts. If a process makes quality parts and is able to be reiterated, this is a model scenario for a manufacturing setting.
• How Plants Survive Winter - By: Saia Percy
  The survival of plants in cold weather is due to acclimation, which involves getting several weeks of exposure to near-freezing temperatures before a frost. Plants purposely put themselves in a state of desiccation. They remove excess water from their leaves-in the case of evergreens like rhododendrons and conifers-or from buds and stems. When they are in this self-induced dry state, protection from wind can be a plus.
• Metal Fabrication and Lead Strategies - By: Reto Hug
  Manufacturing in a lean way is a way of removing waste in different forms, such as materials and time, to save on business costs. In the metal industry, lean manufacturing would focus on the processing being as efficient as possible and as little metal being wasted as possible. The main points of lean manufacturing insist that any waste manufactured should be minimized. Secondly, requirements in the market should be connected to manufacturing, and finally, there should be a value stream, where the whole process of the production of the product, with the suppliers and the consumer, should be one entity
• Lockup Her with Happiness-the Mysterious Digital Photo Frame - By: Tracey Liao
  What have you prepared for your sweetheart in the coming women's day? You are suggested to take the latest digital photo frames to her. She will be pleased to get it.
• Shopping Business Gifts Through The Internet - By: Jnet Verra
  Shopping has never been easier the birth of the Internet. The trend of online shopping has become so popular that people of different ages enjoy browsing and ordering the things they like at the comfort of their home. The same holds true in the world of business. Since companies - big or small- need to give out business gifts a couple of times every year, shopping online makes an easy way to help them build a good relationship between their business associates.
• Arriving at the Destination in Time with the GPS Navigations - By: Tracey Liao
  The GPS devices are widely used in many fields such as the traffic and tourism. The GPS navigations greatly help you position the location.