When capital projects fail to deliver, it is usually not due to technical reasons but a combination of behavioral pitfalls, unclear accountabilities and gaps in design, specification, and/or project-management processes. Early Equipment Management (EEM): Continuous Improvement for Projects explains how well known and award winning organizations avoid these weaknesses by using: Project road maps setting out clear accountabilities for each step of the concept-to-project-delivery process; Progressive design goals for each step to assure the delivery of low life-cycle costs; Processes to codify tacit knowledge, reveal latent design weaknesses, and build high performance cross-functional team collaboration; Project governance processes that systematically raise their organizations ability to reduce time to market for new assets, products and services with higher added value and fewer resources. Hence the books title of continuous improvement for projects. The word Early in EEM refers to the principle of trapping problems as early as possible in the project process when they are cheapest to resolve. That makes EEM relevant to all projects even those that have past the design stages. To support the use of EEM at any project step, the author has designed each chapter as a standalone topic with cross references to other chapters where relevant. This book:- Explains The six EEM project delivery steps setting out the tasks and accountabilities for project teams, project managers and steering committees at each step; How to organize projects to increase project added value through the collaboration of commercial, operational and technology stakeholders The wiring up behind behaviors that contribute to the failure of traditional project management approaches and how to avoid those pitfalls; The use of projects as a vehicle for the development of internal talent and increase capital project added value The systematic development of internal capabilities to deliver flawless operation from day one in less time with less resources How raising project governance capability directly impacts on company wide management competence Uses case studies to explain how to implement the EEM methodology and Describes how EEM principles and techniques applied to product and service development (Early Product Management) multiplies the gains from EEM. This book shows readers how and why EEM works so that they can design their own EEM road map and continuous improvement process for projects.

An urban hip-hop fictional tale about finding love if you've ever thought that soul mates were bogus. Coraz, the forlorn, has sworn off black men and wants to try something different. The lady has a career, a home, three children, and no husband. She also has three different baby daddy's who are all Black. Out of all the drama that her ex's had given her, she finally decides to only date older, White men. Even though she is only thirty-two years old, she still appears to be in her early twenties, but it is a younger, black man in his twenties that stops and sees her as a prime catch, kids or no kids. Will Coraz continue to blow Mill off, or will Mill blow her away? Don't eem trip to read this one! This book is followed by a sequel called, "God I Respect Ya Gangsta," as Coraz confesses all of the tragic details of her life as the character, "Rainia." Teresarae has also written comedy screen play, "TAXES" with Mel Parr Jr. www.lulu.com/teresarae

Selected, peer reviewed papers from the First International Scientific Conference on Electrical Engineering, Energy, Mechanical Engineering, (EEM 2014), December 2-6, 2014, Novosibirsk, Russian Federation

This issue of ECS Transactions contains the papers presented in the symposium on Silicon Nitride, Silicon Dioxide Thin Insulating Films, and Emerging Dielectics held May 6-11, 2007 in Chicago. Papers were presented on deposition, characterization and applications of the dielectrics including high- and low-k dielectrics, as well as interface states, device characterization, reliabiliy and modeling.