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This exceptionally produced trainee guide features a highly illustrated design, technical hints and tips from industry experts, review questions and a whole lot more! Key content includes: Commercial Drawings, Roofing Applications, Thermal and Moisture Protection, Exterior Finishing, Cold-Formed Steel Framing, Drywall Installation, Drywall Finishing, Doors and Door Hardware, Suspended Ceilings, Window - Door - Floor and Ceiling Trim, Cabinet Installation, and Cabinet Fabrication. Instructor...

A rich history of the unique relationship between life and work in an American factory town from 1840 to 1984, A Place to Live and Work tells the remarkable story of Henry Disston's saw manufacturing company and the factory town he built. The book provides a rare view of the rise of one of America's largest and most powerful family-owned businesses, from its modest beginnings in 1840 to the 1940s, when Disston products were known worldwide, to the sale and demise of the company in the postwar ye...

Please note this is a Short Discount publication. Component distributors are a relatively new part of the electronics industry and are increasingly being used by manufacturers. The continuing growth of the distributor sector demonstrates the significance of this industry in the European electronics market. This new market research report analyses the major trends and events that will influence the European Electronic Component Distribution industry in the next five years, and provides market for...

Hi-tech industries that focus on developing patterns of innovation as part of their management strategies can increase their competitiveness. However, this synergy between knowledge and experience and its resulting creativity can make them targets for takeover bids. This though destroys the continuity that is often an important factor in successful innovation processes and as they become integrated into larger and larger conglomerates, they lose the advantages which made them attractive in the f...

Online social networking services have eliminated the four walls of brick and mortar found in traditional networking and now provide global access in real time to entrepreneurs regardless of industry. This book presents a qualitative analysis of how Irish entrepreneurs use technology, such as LinkedIn, in the formation, development and maintenance of professional business networks and in so doing manage social capital.The objectives of this book are as follows:* Ascertain the perceived benef...

The 20th century witnessed two digital revolutions. Computing power has revolutionized every industry, from finance to agriculture to pharmaceuticals. We've got computers at work and at home, in our pockets and our bags, on our wrists, and even embedded in the architecture of our houses. At the same time a revolution in digital communication unfolded, which has forever altered our lives-work, social, and private-by enabling a world in which we're never impossible to reach and have nearly limitle...

Lean transformations are decidedly more challenging when the math is inconsistent with lean principles misapplied, or just plain wrong. Math should never get in the way of a lean transformation, but instead should facilitate it. Lean Math is the indispensable reference for this very purpose. A single, comprehensive source, the book presents standard and specialized approaches to tackling the math required of lean and six sigma practitioners across all industries-seasoned and newly minted practit...

Explaining the partnering concept in the context of the construction industry and the range of management techniques available to make partnering work successfully in practice, this book shows how cultural issues, team building concepts and aspects of behavioural psychology interrelate with, and influence the commercial and qualitative success of a project.

This text explores the economic history of the traditional Chinese iron industry in the 19th and 20th centuries, with particular emphasis on the interactions between technological, economic and geographic factors. Four separate regions of China are examined, considering the traditional technology of iron production and the ways in which the technologies changed and developed in confrontation with foreign competition and the burgeoning modern sector of China's iron industry. Violent changes in th...