UP ISSI to host national symposium-workshop

German Fraunhofer expert leads public colloquium on int’l benchmarking student, likened the concept to TRIZ or the theory of inventive problem solving.

She said that benchmarking, being the way to the future, is “not reinventing the wheel” but another way to solve

Meanwhile, another guest in the colloquium, Jun Cabochan, former president of PSQ, introduced the main speaker, an analysis Philippines not included). According to him it is the largest performance Fraunhofer- benchmarking database of small and Gesselschaft, or Fraunhofer Society in medium enterprises (SMEs) in the world. The initiative analyzed the overall Antoine English performance of the companies based de Saint-Exupéry Your task is not to foresee the future, but to enable it.” customer, process, and innovation. it is considered Benchmarking 2030: The Future of Entrepreneurship was Dr. Kohl

After welcoming the attendees and thanking ISSI for supporting the colloquium, Tess Bagaman, former vicepresident of the Philippine Society for Quality (PSQ), gave the audience an overview of benchmarking. Bagaman, herself a former UPIndustrial Engineering

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GLEEM trains UP building administrators

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total of 39 UP building administrators,

those in UP Mindanao, attended the back-to-back runs of the Greening and Leaning Through Energy and Environmental Management (GLEEM) training program conducted by the Institute from December 2012 to February 2013.

The series of seminars trained the participants to assess utilities consumption and use of materials and equipment in their respective units. It also trained them to identify opportunities to save water and electricity as well as formulate energy and environmental action plans, which they were expected to implement after the training.

Some of the action items prepared by

the UP building administrators were the University, UP ISSI aims to continue aimed at reducing electricity and water the program with all the procurement personnel and staff of the UP Supply lamps with those made with light-emitting diodes, by replacing conventional air- bid to professionalize procurement in conditioning units with those that are the University. inverter-type and by continuously monitoring water pipes and faucets for GLEEM is made possible through the possible leaks.

Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) of Ang Kasangga party list GLEEM, which debuted on December representative Teodorico T. Haresco, 5 to 7 last year, has so far trained almost who committed the fund to UP ISSI last 160 participants from the academe as year. well as the small and medium enterprise (SME) sector, particularly in the furniture, Part of the PDAF was also allocated for metal and leather industries. It will have Your Own Business course in Aklan.

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After training building administrations in

UP ISSI, Japanese firm hold forum on integrated wastewater treatment

Governor graces SYOB in Aklan

PlanET training continues in Clark, Pampanga

UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES Institute for Small-Scale Industries E. Virata Hall, E. Jacinto Street, UP Campus, Diliman, Quezon City Pioneering. Innovating. Entrepreneuring.

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First PRO-FIT basic food safety course held for herbs and spices firm

Rascal Doctor, sales manager of pharmaceutical firm Long Live Pharma, trains participants of Farmtec Foods, Inc., in Silang Cavite, during the first run of the PRO-FIT Basic Course for SMEs last January 30 and 31.

Investors in People featured in UP ISSI’s Tea Talk

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UP ISSI radio show goes to Iloilo

Tonee to present paper in Valencia, Spain

Joanna adjudged outstanding student Young new faces at DO

Innovation, entrep journal calling for more papers

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