Primarily driven by petroleum price increases, the cost of electricity in buildings and offices witnessed a sharp increase in the last two or three years. In most buildings and offices, electricity is mainly for cooling, lighting and machines like copiers, printers, computers, and other office equipment. And our electric bills…
This seminar will teach the techniques to maximize the benefits to the company that benchmarking can provide. Benchmarking is the search for best practices in other organizations that can be adapted to one’s own organization. It is the search for models that one’s organization can emulate, thus eliminating the “not-invented-here”…
By Jose S. Villegas* – Kaizen Management Systems, Inc. It was mentioned in the last editorial that corporations can last for hundreds and even thousands of years. There are companies, still living, that are more than one thousand years old. So companies therefore unlike humans can be eternal. Thus among…
By Jose S. Villegas It is not customary for people to think of companies as something that will last for tens of hundreds of years. Founders of companies will probably have thought their creations would outlive them by two or three lifetimes. But corporations, although manmade, have a potential to…
Common to airconditioning and refrigeration is that they are both energy intensive. Airconditioning accounts for about 60% of electric bill in many establishments while refrigeration represents a substantial portion of total costs in food processing industry.This seminar explores the energy conservation possibilities in companies heavy on airconditioning and refrigeration. It…
