Improvement program

All tollers should eventually be assessed regarding their own quality improvement programs as well as meeting requirements. This can be done either formally, such as with an assessment process and form, or informally through normal communications. In either case, the results of the toller assessment should be documented and well understood within the organization. 

Quality systems can address one of the quality goals or all of them, they can be as small or as large as you want them to be. They can be project-specific, or they can be limited to quality control that is, maintaining standards rather than improving them. They can include Quality Improvement Programs (QIPs) or encompass what is called Total Quality Management (TQM). 

To determine trends in customer satisfaction and dissatisfaction you will need to make regular surveys and plot the results, preferably by particular attributes or variables. The factors will need to include quality characteristics of the product or service as well as delivery performance and price. The surveys could be linked to your improvement programs so that following a change, and allowing sufficient time for the effect to be observed by the customer, customer feedback data could be secured to indicate the effect of the improvement. 

Association of American Railroads. (1990). Locomotive Improvement Program, Eleventh Research Phase Final Report. Washington, DC Author. 

Adler, K. Grant, M. and Scliroeer, W. (1998). Emissions Reduction Potential of the Congestion Mitigation and Air Ciuahty Improvement Program A Preliminary Assessment. Transportation Research Record 1641. Transportation Research Board. Washington, ITC National Research Council. 

Organize and maintain information on plant sys-tems/equipment and improvement programs... 

For routine monitoring of machine vibration, however, this approach is not cost effective. The time required to manually isolate each of the frequency components and transient events contained in the waveform is prohibitive. However, time-domain data has a definite use in a total plant predictive maintenance or reliability improvement program. 

An analysis is only as good as the data therefore, the equipment used to collect the data is critical and determines the success or failure of a predictive maintenance or reliability improvement program. The accuracy as well as proper use and mounting determines whether valid data are collected. 

Chu, K. J., and A. E. Dukler, 1974, Statistical Characteristics of Thin Wavy Films, AIChE J. 20 695. (3) Chu, P. T., H. Chelemer, and L. E. Hochreiter, 1973, THINC IV An Improved Program for Thermal Hydraulic Analysis of Rod Bundle Cores, WCAP-7965, Westinghouse Electric Corporation, Pittsburgh, PA. (App.)... 

Porzel, F. B., Technology Base of the Navy Explosives Safety Improvement Program, Nineteenth Explosives Safety Seminar,... 

Porzel, F., Petes, J., Tondo, D., Smith, C., Freund, D., and Swisdak, M., Naval Explosives Safety Improvement Program (NESIP) Summary and Status through 30 June 1976, NSWC TR 81-27, Mar 1981. 

Acoustic Systems Inc., Sound improvement programming on AirTran... 

Following completion of the data base improvement programs, a better, yet still Incomplete, knowledge of the sources of the particulate is being used to direct control programs aimed at achieving air standards with minimum cost to the community. Had the modeling work not been compared to the CMB results, future controls would likely have been directed toward traditional, industrial sources. 

Without the benefit of the data base improvement programs, 27 million dollars in Industrial controls would likely have been the key element in a new control strategy yet would have only provided one-third of the reduction required to meet standards. Instead, a more effective mix of point and area source controls will likely be adopted and, at considerably less cost to (and with considerably more effectiveness for) the community. Once the capability is developed, CMB estimates of source Impacts can be used to track the progress of the strategy on a source-class basis using actual air samples, (in addition to emission estimates) to measure the effectiveness of the controls. Oregon s Source Apportionment Program and the Future... 

Experience gained during the past four years has shown that data base improvement programs such as those implemented in Oregon have provided new perspectives into the nature of each airshed s emissions. Subsequent major changes in each community s emission Inventories have Improved dispersion modeling results and provided a level of dispersion model verification Impossible to attain using traditional hl-vol measurements alone. 

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