Critical Thinking – Problem-Solving
Critical thinking has existed for centuries. In fact, all the philosophers and poets of the world have managed to look beyond what looks obvious, so that they could understand the…
Critical Thinking – Introduction
‘’Critical thinking...the awakening of the intellect to the study of itself. ‘’Critical thinking is a rich concept that has been developing throughout the past 2500 years. The term "critical thinking" has…
Impedance Matching
Eddy current testing requires us to determine the components of the impedance of the detecting coil or the potential difference across it. Most applications require the determination only of changes…
Smart Goals For Personal Productivity
People often fail to achieve their goals, and one of the biggest reasons is that they had started out on a wrong goal in the first place. Philosophically speaking, no…
Incentives & Personal Productivity
In this chapter, we will have a small case study to analyze how incentives influence personal productivity. Turnbuckle Fisheries was started with 22 employees in 1982. After the first year,…
Coil (Probe) Design
The most important feature in eddy current testing is the way in which the eddy currents are induced and detected in the material under test. This depends on the design…
Factors Behind Personal Productivity
Employees with a clear focus on Personal Productivity can motivate themselves to get employees with irreconcilable differences to work in sync with one another, keeping in mind their own goals…
Improving Personal Productivity – Tools
Candidates appear for interviews, and subsequent rounds of evaluation during which the management determines their skill, aptitude, temperament and knowledge. Depending on the company, the management also administers annually, bi-annually,…
The Three-Phase Theory
The successful enhancement of an employee’s personal productivity depends on self-evaluation. An employee should keep in mind that his self-evaluation should provide a clear picture of the standards of his…
Probes – Shielding Loading
One of the challenges of performing an eddy current inspection is getting sufficient eddy current field strength in the region of interest within the material. Another challenge is keeping the…
