Design Team Process

Small (300 people or less) at a single location The design team and steering committee will be the same, often using periodic planning meetings 

Spread across multiple locations The design team shonld condnct two-day marathon planning meetings to plan the process and develop materials, then implement through steering committees 

A large, single location The design team may use either marathon or periodic planning meetings, then implement through steering committees 

If your organization is resistant to change, you should consider doing a pilot in work areas where you are confident you can achieve success. The ideal pilot areas should (1) be viewed as representative of the other work areas of the organization, 

Marathon planning meetings (2-day, off-site meetings) Minimizes length of time required for planning and implementation, usually 4-8 months for initial implementation Facilitates design team participation from multiple sites with minimal travel costs 

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Employee teams also experience other problems related to the design of an organization s team process. Often, teams spend inordinate amounts of time identifying safety problems and, in doing so, frequently generate either suboptimal solutions or new problems for others to resolve. The additional problems are usually the result of a poorly designed team process that fails to achieve the following ... 

As noted in Step 13 of the inherent safety review at the design development stage, the team reviews the process to develop a list of potential ergonomics/human factors issues. This list provides input to the design team so that these issues can be addressed as the design progresses. 

Quite why this requirements was necessary is a mystery as it duplicates that given in clause 4.18.1. However, in case anyone is in any doubt that the design team has to be qualified, this requirement draws attention to it so that suppliers will need a process in place to ensure unqualified designers are precluded and that auditors will check that designers are qualified. 

The teams selected to design PSM systems should reflect the approach you have chosen. However, regardless of the approach you use, keep in mind some general characteristics of effective process design teams, which include ... 

StakeholderRepresentation. As previously noted, every process has owners, customers, and suppliers, and wherever possible all of these stakeholder groups should be represented on the PSM system design team. 

Once tlie system components and their failure modes have been identified, tlie acceptability of risks taken as a result of such failures must be determined. Tlie risk assessment process yields more comprehensive and better results when reliable statistical and probability data are available. In tlie absence of such data, tlie results are a strong function of tlie engineering judgment of tlie design team. The important issue is tliat both tlie severity and probability (frequency) of the accident must be taken into account. 

The team members must represent the various scientific disciplines that are associated with the experimental processes of Interest. The methodology requires the design team to meet several times over a period of several weeks to carry out a set of formal agendas described below and to conclude Its efforts with a formal document. The document will contain either a detailed experimental design that meets the constraints of the envisioned test program, or the document will show that an acceptable experimental design does not exist and the envisioned experiment should not be Implemented. In either case, the detailed documentation permits subsequent peer review. 

The flow-sheet is usually drawn up at an early stage in the development of the project. A preliminary flow-sheet will help clarify the designer s concept of the process and serve as basis for discussions with other members of the design team. 

To simulate the PECVD process, a design team creates a PDE model involving momentum and mass balances, as summarized below. It is sufficient to assume the plasma to be a continuum, with physical properties of the gas constant (independent of position and time), negligible volume change of the reacting gases, and velocity and concentration fields symmetric about the reactor centerline (azimuthal symmetry). 

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