Courtesy: Kaizen certification Kaizen (Japanese: 改善, “improvement”) is a concept referring to business activities that continuously improve all functions and involve all employees from the CEO to the assembly line workers. Kaizen also applies to processes, such as purchasing and logistics, that cross organizational boundaries into the supply chain. It has been applied in healthcare, psychotherapy, life coaching, government, and banking. By improving standardized programs and processes, kaizen aims to eliminate […]
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Courtesy: Jewellery hall marking service, gold hallmark services United Kingdom The assay office marks – from left to right, the leopard’s head of London, the anchor of Birmingham, the Yorkshire rose of Sheffield, and the castle of Edinburgh. The assay office marks are no longer an indicator that an item was assayed in the city, or in the UK. Offshore hallmark used by Birmingham Assay Office’s subsidiary in […]
Courtesy: Jewellery hall marking service, gold hallmark services Augmentations in France and England A set of hallmarks on an English silver spoon. From left to right, the maker’s mark of George Unite, the date letter (1889), the Birmingham Assay Office mark, the lion passant and the monarch’s head tax-mark
Courtesy: Jewellery hall marking service, gold hallmark services Ancient Byzantine hallmarks The control or inspection of precious metals was an ancient concept of examination and marking, by means of inspection stamps (punch marks). The use of hallmarks, at first on silver, has a long history dating back to the 4th century AD—there is evidence of […]
Courtesy: Jewellery hallmark service, gold hallmark services The testing of the jewelry as well as the marking is done in approved Assaying & Hallmarking Centres across the nation. These are private undertakings approved as well as monitored by the BIS. Legal status The mandatory status of hallmarking gold jewelry sold in India, although declared, is […]
Courtesy: Jewellery hallmarking service gold hallmark services The BIS Hallmark is a hallmarking system for gold as well as silver jewellery sold in India certifying the purity of the metal. It certifies that the piece of jewellery conforms to a set of standards laid by the Bureau of Indian Standards, the national standards organization of India. India is the second biggest market for gold and its jewellery. […]
Courtesy: ISO 12402:2006 personal flotation devices However, there is a chance that these water pressure activated inflation devices do not inflate the life jacket if a person is wearing waterproof clothing and falls into the water face-down. In these cases the buoyancy of the clothing holds a person on the water surface, which prevents the […]
Courtesy: ISO 12402:2006 personal flotation devices Life jackets for outfitting large commercial transport ventures in potentially dangerous waters, such as coastal cruises, offshore passages, and overwater air flights, consisting of either a single air chamber or a pair of (twin or double) sealed air chambers constructed of coated nylon (sometimes with a protective outer encasing […]
Courtesy: ISO 12402:2006 personal flotation devices Life jackets or life vests are mandatory on airplanes flying over water bodies, in which case they consist of a pair of air cells (bladders) that can be inflated by triggering the release of carbon dioxide gas from a canister—one for each cell. Or the cells can be inflated […]
Courtesy: ISO 12402:2006 personal flotation devices The rigid cork material eventually came to be supplanted by pouches containing watertight cells filled with kapok, a vegetable material. These soft cells were much more flexible and comfortable to wear compared with devices using hard cork pieces. Kapok buoyancy was used in many navies fighting in World War II. Foam eventually […]