Cyber Security
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“They’re Back!”
Online scams have again become prevalent in the gases and welding industry. Learn to avoid being scammed on online con artists. By Victor Fuhrman. -
Computer Security For Small Business
Computer security is an increasingly important issue as identity theft and hacking become more prevalent. Ensure your computers are secure against internal and external threats. By Chris Dominiak.
Efficiencies
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It Wasn’t Raining When Noah Built The Ark
A few simple steps will protect your company’s important data. Howard Ruff, author of numerous financial planning books, has been quoted as saying, “It was not raining when Noah built the ark.” His reference was to financial planning, but the same notion applies when it comes to business planning for disasters. Many businesses spend a great [...] -
What You Can’t See Can Sink You
Discovering the hidden waste in your organization is where the most significant opportunities for improvement exist. As global competition continues to drive and change the business landscape, the ability of distributors to remain profitable and sustain positive results gets harder every day. It is easy for distributors and suppliers in the gases and welding industry to [...] -
Technology Tames The Collections Beast
Atlas Welding Supply takes the hassle out of collections. -
Let Your Customers Do The Work
Paperless invoices and online payments make for an efficient distributor. By Jim Broughton -
Materials Joining And Technology
A July 2010 survey by the Edison Welding Institute identified emerging challenges for the materials joining industry across various manufacturing segments. By Chris Conrardy. -
Automated Invoicing
GAWDA’s Management Information Committee examines electronic invoice processing. By Jim Broughton. -
Virtual Welding
Virtual welding simulates the welding experience with hi-res images and software without using consumables. By Deanna Postlethwaite -
Mobile Processing
Mobile technology allows a welding supply distributor to process orders from the field and track gas cylinders much more easily. This technology saves gases and welding distributors time and money. By Jim Broughton. -
Position Yourself For Success
GPS can be used to track the location and speed of a specialty gas transportation vehicle or welding service vehicle as well as gas cylinder tracking. -
The Well Connected Distributor
Emerging technologies including VoIP, RFID, Wi-Fi and GPS make the distribution of specialty gases and welding equipment more efficient than ever. -
Radio Frequency Identification
Radio frequency identification (RFID) technology is changing the way distribution centers manage inventory, including specialty gas cylinders and welding equipment. By Scott Ernschwender.
Information Technology
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Cloud Computing 101
Your gases and welding business can benefit up there in the cloud. By Marie Fournier. -
A New Kind Of Selling Tool
O.E. Meyer’s outside sales team uses new iPad 2s to remotely connect to the company’s asset management software. -
Establish Yourself As An Expert
GAWDAwiki provides tools for gases and welding distributors in digital age, connecting end-users, distributors and suppliers. -
Make E-Learning Effective For A
Traditionally Hands-On AudienceThe gases and welding industry is a hands-on business. However, that doesn’t mean that hands-on training is the only way for salespeople to learn. Gases and welding distributors will get the most out of their training programs by mixing in elements of e-learning. By Gail Smart -
Building A Salesperson From The Ground Up
For gases and welding distributor principals, great salespeople aren’t born—they’re created. Each company has a unique way of training its gases and welding sales force. These are a few examples. -
Experts In Efficiency
Meet four IT professionals who make life easier for their companies: Michael Chelgren, American Welding & Gas; Chris Bennear, Dale Oxygen; Rodney Huber, Huber Supply Company; and Allison Earlbeck, Earlbeck Gases & Technologies. -
The Browser As User Interface
Online resources are a new way to access and deliver information. Browser-based applications are user-friendly and create a flexible business structure. By Tim Fusco. -
Business Intelligence
Tools and options to allow distributors of industrial, medical and specialty gases and welding equipment to make smarter business decisions. -
Cloud Computing
Cloud computing offers a remote data site to support your information technology requirements. By George Slogik. -
GAWDAwiki Sparks Industry
The gases and welding wiki at www.gawdawiki.org has information on abrasives, anti-spatter, atmospheric gas, cryogenic equipment, gases, MIG and TIG and welding equipment and more. -
GAWDAwiki: Keeping You Connected
GAWDAwiki is a resource for the gases and welding industry designed to keep gases and welding professionals informed and updated on gases and welding news and information. -
Exercise an Extranet
The benefits of using an extranet, a private network for Internet technology and public telecommunications. By Doug O'Dell. -
Acceleration³
The rate at which technology is changing in the gases and welding industry is accelerating due to increased processing power, storage and bandwidth. By Daniel Burrus. -
Price File Updates
The GAWDA Management Information committee is attempting to synchronize pricing data and other updates between gases and welding supplier and distributor members. By David J. Frea. -
Technology Disposal: What You Don’t Know Could Cost You
Improper disposal of technology and hamzat can lead to fines and even prosecution. Properly dispose of all hazmat and technology as outlined in this article. By Rob Mathews. -
Did You Know…? Your Telephone Is More than Just a Dial Tone
Enterprise-class mobility is the ability to combine and unify all the communications tools available to your gases and welding supply employees, including VoIP-based phone systems. By George Slogik. -
Solution Providers
The GAWDA Management Information Committee seeks to provide solutions in technology for GAWDA members by implementing software standards and educational opportunities By Rick Smith. -
Leasing Technology Assets
Leasing information technology expenditures can save a gases and welding distributor money. IT leasing helps a creditor relationship and increases working capital By Scott Ehrnschwender.
