Performance improvements

The war itself also drove the development of improved and miniaturised electronic components for creating oscillators and amplifiers and, ultimately, semiconductors, which made practical the electronic systems needed in portable eddy current test instruments. The refinement of those systems continues to the present day and advances continue to be triggered by performance improvements of components and systems. In the same way that today s pocket calculator outperforms the large, hot room full of intercormected thermionic valves that I first saw in the 50 s, so it is with eddy current instrumentation. Today s handheld eddy current inspection instrument is a powerful tool which has the capability needed in a crack detector, corrosion detector, metal sorter, conductivity meter, coating thickness meter and so on. 

Cera.micA.bla.tors, Several types of subliming or melting ceramic ablators have been used or considered for use in dielectric appHcations particularly with quartz or boron nitride [10043-11 -5] fiber reinforcements to form a nonconductive char. Fused siHca is available in both nonporous (optically transparent) and porous (sHp cast) forms. Ford Aerospace manufactures a 3D siHca-fiber-reinforced composite densified with coUoidal siHca (37). The material, designated AS-3DX, demonstrates improved mechanical toughness compared to monolithic ceramics. Other dielectric ceramic composites have been used with performance improvements over monolithic ceramics (see COMPOSITE MATERIALS, CERAMIC MATRIX). 

The resistance of the polymer to oils and organic solvents can be direcdy attributed to the hydroxyl fiinctionahty and the fihn-forrning properties of the polymer. Treated paper substrates display a significant amount of oil resistance, which make them valuable for packing papers and food-grade paperboard containers. This performance improvement is achieved despite the fact that the 1—3 wt % add-on level, typical of size press appHcations, is too low to provide a continuous poly(vinyl alcohol) film. 

Convective heat transfer is often nsed as an adjnuct to other modes, particnlarly to the coudnctive mode. It is often more convenient to consider the agitative effecl a performance-improvement iuflneuce on the thermal diffnsivity factor Ot, modifying it to Ot, the effective valne. 

Hillary, Ruth, ed. ISO 14001 Case Studies and Practical Experiences. Sheffield, U.K. The Network for Environmental Management, Greenleaf Publishing, 2000. - Contains case studies that provide experiences of companies and what certifiers look for when they visit firms. Highlights ISO 14001 s strengths and weaknesses. Analyzes environmental and economic performance improvements under ISO 14001. 

Interpreting PSA as any risk assessment using accident probabilities and consequences, government and industry have prepared many examples. These are discussed as Public Risk, Specialized Analyses, and Performance Improvement. 

Risk-based information provides a foundation for regulation of severe accidents. Early PRAs, with large uncertainties, indicated risk that was above or below the Safety Goals depending on containment performance. Consequently the NRC developed an Integration Plan for Closure of Severe Accident Issues (SECY-88-47) with six main elements to this plan 1) individual plant examinations (IPE), 2) containment performance improvements, 3) improved plant oper itions, 4) severe accident research, 5) external event considerations, and 6) accident management. 

While not every employee will be interested in the PSM system as a whole, preferring to focus on individual tasks and requirements, it s a good idea to offer the opportunity to learn more. You may find that performance improves as people understand how what they are doing affects other parts of the system and business operations as a whole. 

Early work on the fatigue strength of various metallic alloys including steels, aluminium alloys, copper alloys and nickel-base superalloys in vacuum and in air clearly demonstrated that fatigue performance improved in... 

Modelling oxygen transport in the aeration system is important as it can be used as a reference for overall process performance improvement as well as process design and simulation. The oxygen transfer process mentioned above is based on the concentration gradient between... 

There is also oxifluorination that is a process in which fluorine gas is thinned with nitrogen to which several percent of oxygen by volume have been added. Subjecting PE to fluorine and oxygen at the same time leads to functionalization of the PE, making it impermeable. This technique permits substantially reducing the required amount of fluorine, resulting in a cost-to-performance improvement. 

Table 6-11 Examples of alloying to provided cost-performance improvements...

Expls similar to Octol, viz, HMX/TNT/Al/Wax, 47/31/22/3-5, have been prepd and tested for air-blast and underwater effectiveness. The performance improvements that resulted (1—2%) over Cyclotol analogs were not considered worth the additional cost (Ref 4), and other expls are generally exploited for such applications... 

Last but not least, two epoch-marking technologies have been successfully implemented in 1989 and 1994 active optics, with the 3.5 m ESO New Technology Telescope (NTT), and segmentation, with the 10 m Keck. In the former, real-time adjustments of the primary mirror support forces and of the alignment of the secondary mirror guarantee consistent, optimal performance, and allow relaxation of opto-mechanical fabrication tolerances. These adjustments being derived from wavefront analysis of off-axis stellar sources located outside the scientihc held of view, imply minimal operational overheads at the beneht of reliable, substantial performance improvement... 

Mentoring is a process which supports learning and development and thus performance improvements, either for an individual, team, or business. 

Kobe Steel reported two rotor developments. The first development is an improvement of the four flight rotor by extending the long rotor wing until four times the short rotor wing (see Figure 35.23). As for the ST rotor it can be mn in an even speed or with friction. The performance improvement can... 

Table II. Performance Improvement Upon Minimal Explicit Vectorization for the Distribution Problem...

Much has been published about simulations of research and development (R D), but in the area of research process improvement there are still many challenges. This chapter consists of two main parts, covering current approaches, which have met limited acceptance, and newer approaches aimed more directly at overcoming the most likely areas of cognitive difficulty that research managers face when making decisions on performance improvement. 

Recent applications of visualization and simulation to support performance improvement in drug discovery... 

How can pharma R D managers ensure that the future for process and performance improvement is not just like the past, where the long-term trend appears to be decreased, not increased, economic effectiveness ... 

Nick Hughes, Head of Global Analytics and Life Sciences Consulting, for sponsoring our original work on quantitative methods in support of pharmaceutical R D performance improvement, and for reviewing a draft. 

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