Life evaluation program

The remaining useful life evaluation routine (RULER) is a useful monitoring program for used engine oils. The RULER system is based on a voltammetric method (Jefferies and Ameye, 1997 Kauffman, 1989 and 1994). The data allows the user to monitor the depletation of two additives ZDDP and the phenol/amineH+ antioxidant. The RULER results were compared to other standard analytical techniques, differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), total base number (TBN), total acid number (TAN), and viscosity to determine any correlation between the techniques (Jefferies and Ameye, 1997 and 1998). The test concluded that the RULER instrument can... 

Buy-back program that Assess product longevity Shelf life evaluation... 

Nemeth, N. N., Powers, L. M., Janosik, L. A., and Gyekenyesi, J. P., Ceramics Analysis and Reliability Evaluation of Structures Life Prediction Program Users and Programmers Manual. ... 

The ICH S7A guidance states that "supplemental" studies are meant to evaluate potential adverse pharmacodynamic effects on organ systems functions that are not acutely essential for the maintenance of human life and not addressed by the "core battery" or repeated dose toxicity studies when there is a cause for concern.25 Examples of physiological functions that fall into that category include, but are not limited to, the renal/urinary, immune, GI, endocrine and autonomic nervous systems. This section focuses on the renal and GI systems based on their potential impact on the clinical development program. 

Economic evaluation compares costs and consequences of alternative health care treatments or programs (Drummond et al. 2005). In one form of economic evaluation, cost-benefit analysis, all costs and consequences are valued in monetary terms. However, in health care it is much more common to use cost-effectiveness analysis, where the difference in cost between alternatives is compared with the difference in outcomes measured in units such as life years gained or quality-adjusted life years (QALYs) gained. 

The term life-cycle framework is used broadly to refer to any and all of the tool and programs that provide insights into and to some extent quantify a company s extended environmental concerns (Sullivan and Ehrenfeld, 1994). It would therefore include all of the considerations we used above to evaluate solvents. These extended environmental concerns are associated with activities beyond as well as at the company s own production facilities, from raw material acquisition, to component production, to recycling or disposition of a product. This is a different way of expressing total quality management, or TQM. 

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