Quality Measurements

This type of contract requires the operator to pay a fixed amount to the contractor upon completion of the well, while the contractor furnishes all the material and labour and handles the drilling operations independently. The difficulty with this approach Is to ensure that a quality well Is delivered to the company since the drilling contractor will want to drill as quickly and cheaply as possible. The contractor therefore should guarantee an agreed measurable quality standard for each well. The guarantee should specify remedial actions which will be implemented should a substandard well be delivered. 

Are there specific and measurable quality improvement goals for the organization and is there a defined quality improvement process in place ... 

While not measurable, these subjective terms enable customers to rate products and services on the extent to which they satisfy their requirements and are therefore suitable for their purpose. However, to the company supplying products and services, a more precise means of measuring quality is needed. To the supplier, a quality product is one that meets in full the perceived customer requirements. 

You should review the contract and the detail specifications to identify whether your existing controls will regulate quality within the limits required. You may need to change the limits, the standards, the techniques, the methods, the environment, and the instruments used to measure quality characteristics. One technique may be to introduce Just-in-time as a means of overcoming storage problems and eliminating receipt inspection. Another technique may be Statistical Process Control as a means of increasing the process yield. The introduction of these techniques needs to be planned and carefully implemented. 

Should you need any new instrumentation, either for monitoring processes or for measuring quality characteristics, you need to make provision for its development. You will need to develop detail specifications of the instrumentation, and design, manufacture, inspect, and install the instruments under controlled conditions which meet the requirements of the standard. 

Muntau H (1980) Measurement quality improvements by application of reference materials. In Brattee P and Schramel P, eds. Trace Element Analytical Chemistry in Medicine and Biol-ogy, PP707-726. Walter de Gruyter Co Berlin New York. 

It is in the declaration of the latter where a certain quality of the measured value can be described with traceability. This relation to measurement quality has been expressed in the literature for some time ... 

Over the past decade, a major trend has been the development of the use of proficiency testing (PT) or evaluation materials (Fox 2000). PT materials are a type of reference material, which aid in assessment of analytical laboratory measurement quality. There will be an increased use of such materials as part of laboratory accreditation programs and other new quality assurance efforts, including internal audits. At the same time, a number of providers have used PT schemes to produce a form of RM intended to meet the ever-growing need for RMs required for routine QC use (Jenks 1995,1997). 

Originally, SFI was developed to measure quality of soils of cacao fields (Alvim and Rosand 1974). Moran et al. (2000) extended its use in forest soils in the humid tropics, where the climate is classified as Am or Af (Koppen 1931). Recently, Doi and Sakurai (2004) found the applicability of SFI and SEF to evaluating soil quality in the SERS. 

The previous method supposes complete knowledge of the system and depends on the measurement quality of instruments (errors, availability), leading to severe effects on the accuracy of the on-line estimates. Therefore, a good noise filtration algorithm (like the Kalman filter or derivative) should be employed to improve the reliability of the estimated values before their use. 

Major categories of process Raman applications include reaction monitoring, in-process quality checks, and mobile or field point measurements. Quality control laboratory applications often are converted to a continuous process monitoring approach, or could simply be viewed as part of a larger production process. 

Managing for Quality Improvement Measuring Quality Improvement... 

And what is measurement quality Main focus is that measurement need to be comparable over space and time and here we need metrology. 

Control charts based on variable sample data include the x chart and the. v chart. When dealing with a numerically measurable quality characteristic, the x chart is usually employed to monitor the process average and the s chart is used to monitor the process variability. When there is only one observation in each sample, the individual measurement chart (I chart) and moving range chart (MR chart) are used to monitor the process average and variability. It should be noted that due to the poor... 

Measurable quality objectives are defined to meet the customer-focused requirements at relevant applicable levels within the company. 

The quality policy defines measurable quality goals and relates needs/expectations, which include ... 

Each of the preceding (i.e., structure, process, and outcomes) has been used to measure quality. Traditionally, quality in pharmacy practice has been measured by structure and process methods. This relies on a premise that a quality outcome is not possible without appropriate structure or process. Moreover, it is much simpler and less controversial to measure structure and process than it is to measure outcomes. Recently, however, outcomes quality measurement has become more prevalent. 

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