Corporate archives

Boehringer-Ingelheim GmbH, Corporate Archives, Ingelheim, Germany... 

Ready, Aim, an interview with Henry W. Gadsen on the company s diversification in the company s magazine, 1970 Memorandnm on the company s withdrawal from research management and marketing operations in elertrochemicals, Dec. 12, 1963 and Selerted events in the development of Merck s consnmer produa business as documented from Merck annual reports, 1962-1977, aU in Merck corporate archive. 

These and most other corporate archive sampling approaches are based on Tanimoto similarities from substructural fragments. However, because corporate databases typically contain hundreds of thousands of compounds, proceeding with MDS to create a Euclidean space with coordinates for each molecule is prohibitive. Although the number of potential compounds in a combinatorial library is many orders of magnitude larger than any corporate database, the number of building blocks is much smaller, so the MDS calculation is tractable. 

Step 20. The MRC shall archive one complete set of documents relating to the PMN, including the records of all locations searched for pertinent information, all tests and studies submitted with or described in the PMN, the completed PMN form as submitted, and all correspondence with the EPA concerning the PMN. The MRC shall document in the file all studies and test data that were not submitted or described in the PMN that were reviewed, with the rationale for not submitting or describing them. The complete set shall be retained in the corporate archives for five years after the company ceases to manufacture or import the PMN substance. 

The complete set shall be retained in the corporate archives for five years after the Company ceases to manufacture or import the TME substance in reliance on the TME. 

I visited several archives, some for an extended period, and many archivists have helped me along the way. I particularly want to thank those at the American Heritage Center, the Chemical Heritage Foundation, the Deutsches Museum, the Sidney M. Edelstein Center at the Hebrew University, Emory University, the Hagley Museum and Library, Harvard University, the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library, the National Archives and Records Administration, and the Post Street Archives. Several corporate archives allowed me access to their records BASF, Bayer, E. Merck, and Merck Company. 

Figure 2. Advertisement for Plexiglas , a brand-name synthetic polymer made by Rohm and Haas from 1939. With all the advantages of glass but with none of the drawbacks, housewives could only look at the resulting affordable, hygienic kitchenware with admiration. Courtesy of EVONIK Industries AG, Corporate Archives, Darmstadt.

The DS team uncovered four additional sets of documentation systems when they conducted their detailed search of programs and elements. Each documentation system had its own set of standards for recording information, distribution, review and approval and for archiving. Furthermore, the incompatibilities of the various electronic systems were exacerbated by the lack of a corporate hierarchy on preferred computer platforms. 

I would like to thank Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent, Jed Z. Buchwald, Otto T. Ben-fey, William H. Brock, Charles C. Gillispie, Jean Pierre Poirier, and J. B. Shank for reading this chapter and discussing it with me. Thanks are also due Susanne Hahn for her help during my visit to the Hoechst Corporate History Archives, Frankfurt, Germany. 

The chemical industry s efforts to forge an international reputation as a responsible corporate citizen have been severely damaged by publication on the internet of an archive of confidential industry documents. The publisher, the Environmental Working Group, claims that the archive shows how the industry spins, distorts and twists the facts on the safety and environmental impact of its products. 

Consider the VMP as the corporate doctrine of a corporation s general validation, testing, recording and archival practices. Typically, the SOPs within the VPM are too general and, therefore, it is advised that one create specific SOPs for a particular system to be validated. These would be part of an HPLC system s validation plan. Note that the VMP should be thought out and drafted well in advance of developing a specific system Validation Plan. 

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The HP-1000E is presently interfaced, by modem, to the central corporate computer, an IBM 3033. The capacity of the corporate processor is, therefore, available for operations on large data bases and archival storage. This hierarchy maximizes the use of the strengths of each processor by assigning tasks to the equipment which can handle them best. 

Figure. 1.5. Watts Kettle in Meiji Japan (Reproduced, with permission, from a woodblock print in the collection of Yokogawa Archives, Yokogawa Electric Corporation).

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