Product improvement program

PIP product improvement program PMT polymer melting temperature... 

To determine trends in customer satisfaction and dissatisfaction you will need to make regular surveys and plot the results, preferably by particular attributes or variables. The factors will need to include quality characteristics of the product or service as well as delivery performance and price. The surveys could be linked to your improvement programs so that following a change, and allowing sufficient time for the effect to be observed by the customer, customer feedback data could be secured to indicate the effect of the improvement. 

Monsanto, like many chemical firms, had a product safety program in place long before passage of TSCA. The Monsanto program from its inception embraced the spirit and in many cases the letter of what later appeared as the law. In some situations TSCA has improved the focus of Monsanto s information management and has been beneficial. In other cases we have provided constructive criticism of EPA proposed rules which required information submission and management with no specific objective. 

Perhaps this is an opportune time to cite a case history, which I was involved in, where processability was a key element of an important new product development program. Several years ago a few companies in the refrigeration industry were interested in improving quality and reducing costs and considered expanding the use of plastics to realize this objective. These manufacturers expressed an interest in ABS, one of the polymers Uniroyal... 

Then along came Total Quality Leadership (TQL), a management improvement program developed by W. Edwards Deming. You will recall that Japanese automobile manufacturers used TQL principles to transform their inferior products into the worldwide leading products that remain today. TQL was unique because it used statistical analysis to study problem processes. As scientists, we found that approach appealing. 

As in a routine production facility, programs for environmental monitoring of viable and non-viable particulates, bioburden, and pyrogen loads of incoming materials should be established. Prewashed and sterilized components may be useful in improving operating efficiency. 

Computers continued to get smaller, faster, and cheaper. The accuracy and speed of chemical analysis continued to improve. With real-time chemical analysis of process streams and a mathematical model for each unit in the process, the computer was programmed to set controllers on process streams using the new process control algorithms. With some additional programming and with the process control set points adjusted by the computer control system, the quality of the product improved. The physical property data for the chemicals in the process streams required for these model calculations were built into the process control program. 

Gradually partnerships were formed between life sciences and fine chemicals industries, the latter having resources to respond to the specific needs in terms of products and technologies. The relationship between life sciences and fine chemicals industries has evolved from a vendor-purchaser approach to a strategic partnership. There has been a much broader sharing of information, be it with respect to cost improvement programs or to commercial outlook for the product(s). Both partners focus their resources on their core competencies. 

Most field isolates of C. purpurea obtained in screening programs over the years yielded interesting strains producing different, specific alkaloids (or desired mixtures) at moderate rates in planta only, thus they were not suited for submersed production of alkaloids. Strain-improvement programs focused therefore on an increased capacity of strains to produce high amounts of a specific alkaloid in axenic culture. This was mainly achieved, as in other... 

The Label Improvement Program was initiated by a notice in the Federal Register, dated June 5, 1980 (45 FR 37884). Under this program registants will be required to amend their registrations to modify product labels to con-... 

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