Developing Integrated Systems

Some of the Difficulties Involved in Integrated System Development... 

Don t divorce the quality system documents from other documents of your business - develop an integrated system. 

Before any plan can be developed you must first have a vision of what the fully integrated system might look like. It may also be helpful to contrast the existing arrangements for PSM and ESH with this vision of the future. In this way, the advantages of integration can be more completely understood. 

The result of this analysis for Xmple, Inc. is illustrated in Exhibit 3-3 (see foldout), which provides a good visual impression of the strengths and weaknesses of the existing programs. This information will be used later (see Chapter 5) to decide how to start developing integrated systems. 

What is needed to develop integrated management processes and programs and elements. This should be a summary of the integrated systems and programs and elements that will be developed. 

Exhibit 4-1 provides some indications of the level of effort that might be required to develop integrated systems, programs and elements. 

This chapter first discusses how to set about prioritizing your integration efforts, then how to develop integrated systems and build the concept of continuous improvement into your systems. A section is also provided on the various tools that might be used in the process. Lastly, there is a section on how to approach integration if you are dealing with informal existing systems. This section will not apply to all readers. 

In deciding which order to develop and install the integrated systems, look for a balance of early success and enough challenge to demonstrate the benefits of integration. 

When selecting in-process measures, try to use measures for which data are already available. For example, avoid using in-service failure data unless the maintenance systems can make this information readily available. These measures will be used to identify potential problems and correct them as early as possible. During the development of the integrated systems, data that will be available for in-process measurement should be identified and measures developed. These measures are most likely to be calculated annually as the volume of data required to provide useful data will be collected only over relatively long periods of time. 

This is normally a very integrated system of combustion which has received considerable development in the last few years. The combustion chamber is arranged to allow combustion of the coal within a fluidized bed of inert... 

Most computer-integrated systems have been developed for injection molding, since a much bigger market exists with IM. Other computer systems are available for the other processes. 

Mathematical models of the reaction system were developed which enabled prediction of the molecular weight distribution (MWD). Direct and indirect methods were used, but only distributions obtained from moments are described here. Due to the stiffness of the model equations an improved numerical integrator was developed, in order to solve the equations in a reasonable time scale. 

The market is still reluctant to adopt these mn-flat tires until there is an integral system that warns the driver of pressure loss. Many new smart developments are hitting the markets that monitor tire temperamre and pressure. This type of monitoring is also beneficial to fleet operators who need to measure and maintain tire-operating pressure to minimize tire wear and fuel consumption. 

Integrated systems using multiple technologies in the areas of communications, data collection, and management have been developed that allow patients to perform and report critical tests at home (Jones et al. [4]). 

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