Process Control
Standardize your process and provide proper documentation using work instructions. Ensure that your employees clearly understand your intent in performing all tasks in your business. Use this template to create your work instructions.
Use your Work Instructions to create an employee certification process. This is a great method for quantifying employee job knowledge, and providing goals for your employees.
Track your employee certifications with this spreadsheet. Simply place an "X" in the appropriate field when an employee becomes certified on a process and the spreadsheet performs the calculations. This is a powerful tool that compliments the Work Instruction template, and the Employee Certification template.
Tracking your scrap rate is one of the most critical tasks in manufacturing management. This MS Access database will allow you to track your scrap by Part Number, Product Series, and Scrap Cause; and print out various reports which break down the actual cost of your scrap by these categories. Track scrap at the component level, sub-assembly level, or finished goods. This database quickly becomes the centerpiece of your Quality Control team. Ready to use as-is, or it can be easily customized to suit your companies needs.
Failure Mode Effects & Analysis
The F.M.E.A. process is a method that examines potential failures in products or processes. An excellent tool for performing a risk assessment of your process.
Firefox has become one of the most popular browsers in use today because of the many advantages it offers over Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE). As a web designer, I would be lost without Firefox. Here's why I fell in love:
Speed. I have to test my designs on all browsers to ensure that the code is rendered properly. Mozilla Firefox consistently loads pages faster than Google Chrome, Apple Safari, and Opera. Internet Explorer always loads pages at a noticeably slower rate than all of the others. Studies have shown that Firefox has a very low memory footprint, which aids in it's fast startup and quick page loads.
Add-Ons. Firefox is the most customizable browser available today. You can change the appearance, as well as adding powerful extensions to enhance your browsing experience. The Web Developer Extension has made site testing and analysis a breeze. Read more information on the Firefox Add-ons.
Security. The built-in Anti-Malware feature keeps you from accidentally visiting "blacklisted" sites. Instant Web Site ID helps you be certain about a site’s legitimacy by clicking the "favicon" in the far left of the address bar. Firefox automatically searches for updates to the browser, add-ons, and plug-ins such as QuickTime, Java, and Flash - which is one of the greatest security risks an internet user faces. And all these features are much easier to customize than the cumbersome security controls in IE.
Personnel Management
Employee Performance Evaluation
Annual Review Form
This spreadsheet is a great solution for handling your annual employee performance evaluations. Easily customized to suit your company's needs. Note: to customize the "locked" cells, first unprotect the sheet by selecting "Tools - Protection - Unprotect Sheet".
Track Employee Attendance
Use this spreadsheet to track employee attendance. Fill in the employees names and place an "X" in the appropriate field, and the spreadsheet calculates the attendance events for you. This can be done when performing the weekly timecard review.
External Downloads
Small Business Operating Software
DBA Manufacturing offers a complete software package for any small business. They offer their single-user system FREE. As your business grows, you are able to expand to a multi-user system for a fraction of the price of comparable software packages. Their software package includes fully customizable Sales Management, Materials Management, Job Management, Service Management, Financial Management, and Administration.
Free Office Software Suite
OpenOffice.org is the leading open-source office software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more. It is available in many languages and works on all common computers. It stores all your data in an international open standard format and can also read and write files from other common office software packages such as the popular Microsoft Office suite. It can be downloaded and used completely free of charge for any purpose.
Free Web site Templates
Open Source Web Design is a site to download free web design templates and share your design with others. Their goal is to provide the Open Source community with quality web designs to help get people's projects on the web in a way that is both organized and good looking.
Are you looking for a high-quality and totally free operating system? Then you're looking for Linux. There are many distributions of Linux to chose from, making it easy to find the right operating system to suit your needs. You don't need to be a programmer to use Linux; you can find a distribution of Linux that works for you even if you're a computer novice. Here are the advantages:
- Low cost: Many distributions of Linux are completely free. No trial periods to worry about and completely legal (this is NOT software piracy, but instead open source software distribution).
- Installs Quickly and Easily: Most Linux distributions are as easy to install as any other software program, and come with easy to follow user guides.
- Stability: It doesn’t freeze up or slow down over time, providing longer uptimes than other operating systems.
- Performance: Linux provides extremely high performance, and can make some older computers fast enough to be useful again.
- Choice: The large number of Linux distributions gives you a choice. Each distribution is developed and supported by a different organization giving you options not available with software vendors such as Microsoft.
- Multitasking: Multitasking is the hallmark of Linux; e.g., a large printing job in the background won’t slow down your other work.
- Security: Linux is one of the most secure operating systems available today, and one of the main reasons serious developers avoid Microsoft.
- Open Source: You can modify the source code of the software to suite your taste (the source code for MS Windows is closely guarded).
