Partnership, industrial

A new approach of partnership between client and inspection service organisations has been established primarily for the North Sea but increasingly finding application elsewhere Benefits accrue to all parties and the technical and commercial lessons learnt in the process have relevance to a wide range of other industries. 

The auto industry has estabbshed a cooperative program in the field, the Vehicle Recycling Partnership (VRP). In addition, some auto manufacturers have announced specific projects that include recycled mbber. Chrysler has announced that it is already using a mbber shield that incorporates cmmb mbber derived from scrap tires. Auto manufacturing companies have indicated a desire to expand the use of recycled post-consumer scrap mbber in their products. 

Supplier partnerships or alliances have been used to control the cost of procurement. They are based on methods developed in Japan, initially in the automobile industry. These methods have been extended into the process industry and for the purchase of such items as compressor trains. Generally as originally conceived, they were intended mainly for commodity items. By using some innovative approaches, the concept of partnerships or alliances has been extended into the purchase of custom equipment. 

Jones, T. (1997). Steam Partnership Improving Steam System Efficiency Through Marketplace Partnerships. Proceedings 1997 ACEEE Slimmer Study on Energy Efficiency in Industry, Washington, DC ACEE. 

Since the end of the Cold War, the focus of all the laboratories has moved beyond weapons, accelerators, and energy-related research to encompass almost every imaginable field of basic and applied science. Most of the laboratories are increasingly being pushed by Congress to create partnerships with industrial firms to commercialize laboratory-des el-oped technology in the hope that it will improve the overall competitiveness of the U.S. economy. 

DfE forms partnerships with industry and other interested parties to develop information on environmental and human health impacts, performance, and cost of cleaner technologies and approaches. 

A good example of the many successftil DfE Partnerships is the Furniture Flame Retard-ancy Partnerhip. Pentabromodiphenylether (PentaBDE) was the primary flame retardant used in low density, flexible polyurethane furniture foam. Due to concerns over its use and the fact that the chemical was found widespread in the environment and in human tissue and breast milk, PentaBDE was voluntarily phased out of production by US manufacturers in January 2004. The industry needed alternatives in order to meet furniture flame retardancy requirements, but did not have the human and environmental health and safety information needed in order to compare the alternatives. DfE worked with the furniture manufacturers, foam manufacturers, and flame-retardant chemical suppliers along with governmental and environmental groups to evaluate possible alternatives. 

Flame retardants in printed circuit boards partnership. Circuit boards are commonly used in electronics in consumer and industrial products, including computers and cell phones. In order to ensure fire safety, manufacturers commonly produce circuit boards with flame-retardant chemicals. While serving an important performance function, some flame-retardant chemicals can be harmful if released into the environment. To better understand the issues and the full range of options for flame-retarding circuit boards, DfE is engaging with the electronics industry and other stakeholders in a partnership. 

Coordination is needed on a global scale to fulfill registrants role and commitment to make EDS a reality in NAFTA and OECD countries. To accomplish all this, well-defined plans need to be developed through an industry-government partnership and followed up with specific actions. 

Industrial scientists, therefore, hold a very high public trust. There is a need to go beyond the requirements of scientific canons and demonstrate to the lay public that its trust has been upheld. A number of industrial firms have recognized and responded to this need. Wilder, of Eastman Chemical, for example, describes a proactive pollution prevention policy developed in partnership with the Environmental Protection Agency.112 This work describes the key role of analytics in helping chemical manufacturers take leadership roles in redesigning processes for waste prevention. Since the analytical laboratory is a principal referee in the production process, there is always a risk that time pressures will tempt some members of the production team to "work the referee". An important function of the chain of command of the analytical laboratory, therefore, is establishing a clear operational policy to ensure that any such pressure does not reach the bench level ... 

In the field of in-process analysis, analytical NMR applications also constitute a growth area - and also in relation to additives. This stems from the fact that the method makes it possible to use chemical analytical data in polymer quality control. Robust tools for hostile chemical plant environments are now available. The field of process analytical chemistry has been pushed to the forefront of the partnership between industry and academia. 

The trend in the industry has been to automate the Caco-2 permeability assay using semi- or fully automated procedures. With such a system it is possible to obtain a throughput in order of approximately 400-500 compounds per week. Automated Caco-2 assay systems are commercially available through Tecan/BD Bioscience and Bohdan Mettler Toledo. In addition, automated systems for maintenance of cell cultures are commercially available, while totally automated systems for both maintenance and culturing of cells grown on permeable filter supports are under development, e.g., by companies such as The Automation Partnership. 

The new partnerships are currently seeking for new applications in nanomaterials development. The business strategy includes the introduction of their products into the life-science research, industrial, and biothreat markets. 

Xencor seeks corporate partnerships for discovering novel proteins for the pharmaceutical industry and proteins with improved traits for the agricultural biotechnology and industrial enzyme markets. 

The national templates have been accepted by the major SDOs and CDOs in the United States, the FreedomCAR and Fuel Partnership, key industry associations, and many state and local governments as the guideposts for the coordinated development of standards and model codes. All of the relevant major SDOs and CDOs in the United States are part of this national effort the ANSI, ASME, American Society of Testing and Materials (ASTM),... 

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