Production service

R. S. Meikel, Textile Product Serviceability, Macmillan, New Yoik, 1991. 

API RP 12R1, Setting, Maintenance, Inspection, Operation, and Repair of Tanks in Production Service, 5th ed., August 1997. 

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The basic goal of quality management is the elimination of failure both in the concept and in the reality of our products, services, and processes. In an ideal world, if we could design products, services, and processes that could not fail we would have achieved the ultimate goal. Failure means not only that products, services, and processes would fail to fulfill their function but that their function was not what our customers desired. A gold-plated mousetrap that does not fail is not a success if no one needs a gold-plated mousetrap ... 

You can gain an assurance of quality by testing the product/service against prescribed standards to establish its capability to meet them. However, this only gives confidence in the specific product or service purchased and not in its continuity or consistency during subsequent supply. Another way is to assess the organization that supplies the products/services against prescribed standards to establish its capability to produce products of a certain standard. This approach may provide assurance of continuity and consistency of supply. 

The note in clause 4.19.1 points out that any after-sales product servicing provided under the OEM contract or order would constitute servicing. 

Is product servicing performed and reported in accordance with documented procedures ... 

The requirements for quality are the objectives which the organization is committed to achieving through the contract. They may relate to products, services, or both. The vehicle for you to define and document how these objectives will be met is called a quality plan but may be known by other names such as a project plan or contract plan. In some cases the requirement may be met in the form of a technical proposal by the supplier to the customer. 

To give this appropriate consideration you will need to do two things define the requirements the product/service has to meet and define how these requirements are to be verified. 

If all the key features and characteristics of your product/service can be verified by a simple examination on final inspection or at the point of delivery, the requirement is easily satisfied. On the other hand if you can t do this, while the principle is the same, it becomes more complex. 

What you need to verify to demonstrate that you are meeting your own defining requirements. (Where your customer defines the product/service in performance terms, you will need to define in more detail the features and characteristics that will deliver the specified performance and these will need to be verified.)... 

Verification requirements are not limited to product/service features and characteristics. One may need to consider who carries out the verification, where and when it is carried out, and under what conditions and on what quantity (sample or 100%) and standard of product (prototype or production models). 

You may find that the only way you can put your product on the market is by having it tested by an independent test authority. You may need a license to manufacture it or to supply it to certain countries and this may only be granted after independent certification. Some verification requirements only apply to the type of product/service, others to the process or each batch of product, and others to each product or service delivery. Some requirements can only be verified under actual conditions of use. Others can be verified by analysis or similarity with other products that have been thoroughly tested (see Part 2 Chapter 4). The range is so widespread it is not possible in this book to explore all examples, but as you can see, this small and innocuous requirement contains... 

Means to select product/service specification variables and associated prices... 

A schedule of design reviews should be established for each product/service being developed. In some cases there will need to be only one design review after completion of all design verification activities. However, depending on the complexity of the design... 

Preliminary Design Review - to establish that all risks have been resolved and development specifications produced for each sub-element of the product/service before detail design commences... 

Produce procedures that govern the generation, proving, and publication of product/ service support documents, such as handbooks, operating instructions, etc. 

Notwithstanding the guidance given below under Evaluation and selection of subcontractors, this requirement does not relieve you of the responsibility for ensuring the quality of subcontracted parts, materials, and services. Therefore, it would be unwise to place orders on a customer-specified subcontractor without first going through your evaluation and selection process. You can obviously take some short cuts but don t make assumptions. The customer will not be sympathetic when you are late on delivery or your price escalates. If you find a subcontractor that can meet all your product/service requirements at a lower price you can submit details to your customer for approval. 

Request for Quotation (RFQ) To obtain prices for products/services V V ... 

If your requirements vary from project to project, subcontractors approved for one project may not be approved for others. If your procurement requirements do not vary from product to product, you may well be able to maintain an AVL. Most will meet your minimum criteria for doing business with your company but may not be capable of meeting specific product/service requirements. Others you will include simply because they do supply the type of product/service you require but their credibility is too low at present to warrant preferred status. In the process you have eliminated the cowboys or rogues . There is no point in adding these to the list as you have established that they won t change in the foreseeable future. 

Quote the product/service identification number on all related records. 

A technique for measuring an organization s products, services, and operations against those of its competitors, resulting in a search for best practice that will lead to superior performance. 

A special investigation, test, inspection, audit, review, demonstration, analysis, or comparison of data to verify that a system, product, service, or process complies with prescribed requirements. 

API Specification IIP Specification for Packaged Reciprocating Compressors for Oil and Gas Production Services covers packaged high-speed separable compressors with speeds from 600 to 1,200 rpm. The majority of reciprocating compressors sold in today s market fall into this category. 

It is not possible to detail all the many different types of insulation used in production, service and building industries. The following attempts to give a summary of the composition, properties and major areas of use of a representative range of insulation types. 

Three types of light sources for artificial weathering are in common use (1) enclosed UV carbon arc [7.5 UV energy output, approx. (x sunlight)], (2) open-flame sunshine carbon, and (3) water-cooled xenon arc. Selection of the light source involves many conditions and circumstances, such as the type of material being tested, product service conditions, previous testing experience, or the type of information desired. 

Management Research and development Quality control Production Services ... 

Tukker, A., 2004. Eight types of product-service system Eight ways to sustainability Experiences from SusProNet, Business Strategy and the Environment, 13 (4), 246-260. 

Abstract Life cycle assessment (LCA) is a useful tool to assess impacts of cradle-to-grave chains of products/services. In the Riskcycle framework, the focus is on additives. Additives are usually minor constituents of products, but depending on their specific properties they can be important in the total scope of impacts of such products. In the LCA literature, additives are hardly visible. Most case studies of products containing additives do not mention them. The reasons for this are unclear, but are at least partly due to the fact that information on additives is not included in standard LCA databases. This is true for both life cycle inventory (LCI) and life cycle impact assessment (LCIA) databases. Therefore, it is difficult to conclude whether or not additives indeed are important contributors to environmental impacts over the life cycle. 

American Obesity Association. AOA Fact Sheets, Consumer Protection Weight Management Products Services. Available online at http //www.obesity.org/ subs/fastfacts/Obesity Consumer Protectshtml. 

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