Publishing industry performance

This has emerged as a key issue as the concept of environmental reporting has developed. The basic need for it stems from the lack of trust that many stakeholders have in information published by companies. Environmental groups are identified as most likely to give the truth about the state of the environment. Scientists and consumer associations are ranked in second and third place, respectively. Industry is placed at the bottom of the league, emphasising the lack of public trust in judging industry performance. This clearly confirms why it is necessary to verify CERs in order to increase credibility of the data and the document as a whole. 

Maggon K, Maggon S (2007). Overview of the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry performance in 2006. http //www.medicineandbiotech.com. e-Published, March 1, 2007. 

The hterature consists of patents, books, journals, and trade Hterature. The examples in patents may be especially valuable. The primary Hterature provides much catalyst performance data, but there is a lack of quantitative results characterizing the performance of industrial catalysts under industrially reaHstic conditions. Characterizations of industrial catalysts are often restricted to physical characterizations and perhaps activity measurements with pure component feeds, but it is extremely rare to find data characterizing long-term catalyst performance with impure, multicomponent industrial feedstocks. Catalyst regeneration procedures are scarcely reported. Those who have proprietary technology are normally reluctant to make it known. Readers should be critical in assessing published work that claims a relevance to technology. 

The current widespread interest in MFC techniques was initiated by pioneering research performed by two industrial groups in the 1970s. Shell Oil (Houston, TX) reported their Dynamic Matrix Control (DMC) approach in 1979, while a similar technique, marketed as IDCOM, was published by a small French company, ADERSA, in 1978. Since then, there have been over one thousand applications of these and related MFC techniques in oil refineries and petrochemical plants around the world. Thus, MFC has had a substantial impact and is currently the method of choice for difficult multivariable control problems in these industries. However, relatively few applications have been reported in other process industries, even though MFC is a veiy general approach that is not limited to a particular industiy. 

In 1991, the Verband der Automobilindustrie e. V. (VDA) published VDA 6.1, Quality Spstem Audit, a questionnaire on quality system evaluation based on DIN EN ISQ 9004. VDA 6 is a series of guides covering the basics for quality audits, auditing, and certification. They were therefore not intended as supplementary requirements to ISQ 9000 but as guides for auditors performing audits of automotive suppliers. Their intention was to improve auditor competency in the industry by providing a uniform interpretation of ISQ 9000 requirements and a common approach to automotive audits. VDA 6.1 has been revised several times and is currently in its fourth edition. There are nine volumes in the series (see Appendix A). 

Enantiomeric drugs or intermediates in their synthesis are the compounds most often purified with this technology and reported in the literature, although many resolutions performed in the industry have not been published for reasons of confidentiality. Some of the most recent examples in the field are summarized in Fig. 1-1. 

Apart from this thesis, the PhD work resulted in a number of papers that have been presented at international conferences and published in various international journals. The research was performed in co-operation with various companies in the Dutch chemical industry and the department of industrial safety at TNO. While TNO will continue with the results of this research, Patrick starts working for SABIC Euro Petrochemicals B.V., from the 1st of March onwards. 

A numerical level of risk acceptance is specified where quantitative evaluation of the probabilities and consequences of an accidental event have been performed. The documentation may also be used by senior management as a justification for budgetary decisions. The values of risk for many industries and daily personal activities have published and are readily available for comparison. This comparison has formed the basis of risk acceptance levels that have been applied to the hydrocarbon industry in various projects. 

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