Improvement product quality

Furthermore, deeper hydrotreating is increasingly necessary to reduce SO emissions and to improve product quality ... 

Statistical quality control is used to first measure and then continuously improve product quality. For example, The Dow Chemical Company s average 1989 performance compared to the typical sales specification were purity, = 99.65 wt % color, APHA = 4 acid (as HCl) = 7.3 ppm and water = 26 ppm. Averages of properties were based on rail car and tank tmck shipment samples during 1989. 

Improperly set tolerances and uncontrolled variation are one of the greatest causes of defects, scrap, rework, warranty returns, increased product development cycle time, work flow disruption and the need for inspection (Gerth and Hancock, 1995). If manufacturing processes did not exhibit variation, quality problems would not arise, therefore reducing the effects of variability at the design stage, in a cost-effective way, improves product quality (Bergman, 1992 Kehoe, 1996). 

Robust design improves product quality by reducing the effects of variability (Phadke, 1989). 

Your general aim should be to improve product quality, increase productivity, and reduce the cost of development and manufacture. However, productivity is not easy to measure with multiple products on multiple lines, each at a different stage of maturity. This makes comparisons to detect changes in productivity difficult, if not impossible. However there may be factors common to all product lines, such as labor costs. Merely outsourcing manufacture to developing countries may not improve your productivity. The labor costs may reduce but rework and warranty claims increase. Productivity is only improved if product quality has been maintained. Certain processes may also be common to more than one product line and hence improving productivity of common processes can have wide-ranging impact. 

In many cases design modifications can substantially improve the productibility of the products and reduce their cost with improved product quality. As an example if voids exist the problem can usually be corrected by modifying or changing the plastic s composition and/or the use of a vacuum system during the casting. Understanding the effects of the process on the product is essential in making successful products. 

Prototyping basically provides a 3-D model suitable for use in the preliminary evaluation of form, design, performance, and material processing of products, molds, dies, etc. When properly used this automatic/fast system can accelerate product development, improve product quality, and time to the market for a product. 

Traditionally, customers employ water treatment service companies simply as external contractors to assist in the maintenance of clean and efficient waterside surfaces in their various heating, steam generating, cooling, and certain industrial process systems. The customers benefit from genuine improvements in operating efficiency, reductions in maintenance time, and replacement component costs. In addition, where industrial processes are involved they often profit from an added-value, due to an improved product quality or reduction in manufacturing cost. 

An improvement of the Rol can also be achieved by an improved product quality, if the market allows higher sales of, or higher profits for, the chlorine/NaOH product. To this end, KU provides know-how and experience in the field of pure brine acidi-... 

When selecting machinery components the goals are to maintain or improve product quality, have line flexibility to run a wide variety of products, have the ability to increase rates in the future, and minimize the long-term cost of the equipment. An additional goal is often to minimize installation time. 

Some of the industrial challenges for the adoption of PAT in the pharmaceutical industry are how to implement this on existing products, where the investment of manufacturing equipment has already been made, and the motivation to improve the process (or perhaps even to better understand it) may not be deemed cost-effective (though there is a potential of both improving product quality and reducing manufacturing costs). 

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