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Tunneling under glaciers: Galore Creek Mine access tunnel, British Columbia
FEATURE ARTICLE The Galore Creek Mine project is one of the newest major mining projects in Canada. It is located in a remote area of...
Mining Engineering, 12/01/07 by Brox, Dean; Procter, Peter; Venne, Claude; Groleau, Francois; Lepinay, Denis; Argus, Alex; Frost, Lorne; Anderson, Rick; Miniely, Murph · More from publication -
A key plant metric: ROA.(Metrics That Matter)
As the name implies, return-on-assets, or ROA, gauges how efficiently a company manages to squeeze profit from its assets--the property owned by...
MSI, 08/01/04 by Anderson, Alex · More from publication -
New product revenue.(Metrics That Matter)
The percentage of revenue derived from new products is a "fundamental measure of organic growth. It's also a measure of renewal and innovation,...
MSI, 06/01/04 by Anderson, Alex · More from publication -
In-house manufacturing raises margins; exposes "missing IT".(Case-In-Point)
Fighting razor-thin margins from import competitors, sports apparel maker and distributor Gympro recently brought some outsourced manufacturing...
MSI, 05/01/04 by Anderson, Alex · More from publication -
Overall Equipment Efficiency.(Metrics That Matter)
Traditional measures like throughput and equipment uptime don't actually translate very well to the issues that drive the business. "The classic...
MSI, 05/01/04 by Anderson, Alex · More from publication -
Descartes poised to turn vision into reality.(Logistics Management)
Descartes Systems Group has long been recognized as a visionary in the logistics execution space. While that vision has failed to turn into...
MSI, 02/01/04 by Anderson, Alex · More from publication -
Big gains found in warehouse overhaul.(Case-In-Point)
With growth in the electronics industry flat or negative for several years, Avnet knew it had to generate significant internal efficiencies to...
MSI, 01/01/04 by Anderson, Alex · More from publication -
Howmet manages outsourcing with Exemplary.(Case-In-Point)
Joel Navarro, a buyer with San Diego-based turbine-engine maker Solar Turbines, wishes all his suppliers were like Howmet Castings. An...
MSI, 11/01/03 by Anderson, Alex · More from publication -
Two-factor authentication makes C/S Group feel more secure.(The Internet Age)
"The Internet is a bigger, more hostile environment today than ever before," says Michael Dyson, IT security manager for Lebanon, N.J.-based C/S...
MSI, 10/01/03 by Anderson, Alex · More from publication -
The language of e-Business: Microsoft partnership blends XML and EDI.(E-Commerce)
Microsoft's BizTalk Server is an efficient platform for conducting ccommerce via XML, but it has trouble connecting to traditional EDI networks....
MSI, 09/01/03 by Anderson, Alex · More from publication
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