Purchasing standardization

Whilst it is possible to purchase standard equipment for the steam moulding process, attempts continue to be made to make sweeping modifications to the process. These include the use of dielectric and microwave heating and the development of semicontinuous and continuous processes. 

Compressor cylinders or other pressure-developing mechanisms are never designed by the process companies involved in their operation, except in rare instances in which special know-how is available or secret process information is involved. In the latter case, the process company might have the compressor cylinders (or compression components) built in accordance with special plans, purchase standard frames or housings, and then assemble the driver, cylinder, and packing at the plant site. 

Although the company officials and plant personnel cooperated fully in acquiring wastewater samples for analysis, they provided little information concerning identities of reactants of company products. Specific ring substitution patterns are not easily derived from mass spectrometrlc data and are included here only for cases where the literature specifies the Isomer or in cases where we have purchased standards and observed identical mass spectra and gas chromatographic retention times. 

The normality of the standardized hydrochloric acid can be adjusted if needed to get reliable data. With accurate dilution, the standard solution should be accurate, but if the researcher wishes to do an easy check, it can be titrated against a purchased standardized NaOH solution using phenolpthalein as the indicator. The standardized NaOH can be bought from either Fisher or VWR at a variety of concentrations. Ideally any titration should use between 5 and 50 ml (1 buret volume) of solution—titrations outside of this range can produce unreliable data,... 

Butter should be stored at 4.4°C or lower or at less than — 17.8°C, if it is to be held for more than 30 days (62). The International Dairy Federation (IDF) has produced specifications for milkfat (64), which include reference to the feedstock. (These specifications relate to the time of manufacture but are often used as purchase standards.) The highest grade, anhydrous milkfat (AMF), must be produced from fresh milk, cream, or butter, to which no neutralizing substances have been added. It should have a clean, bland flavor when tasted at 20-25°C and a peroxide value (PV) of less than 0.2 meq oxygen/1 kg fat. Anhydrous butter oil may be produced from butter or cream of different ages and has no pronounced, unclean, or other objectionable taste or flavor. The term butter oil should be used where there is no pronounced unclean or other objectionable taste or odor. The FAOAVHO Codex standard for milkfat is shown in Table 15 (65). 

The computerised systems will certainly occupy a major part of the brain power for the implementation of GLP also in the SOP area. Since it may not be assumed that in the era before GLP very extensive thoughts had been spent on the validation of computerised systems, especially those hidden in purchased standard apparatus, the compilation of a list of apparatus containing electronic devices and functionalities, and their prioritisation in terms of validation necessity should also be contemplated at this point. 

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Customer C uses these components on a low speed, manual and semi-automatic line, where capping defectives can be individually rejected and satisfactory replacements used. This results in all unusable components being easily scrapped with minimal loss in efficiency and no line stoppages. For the sake of long-term line efficiency (as well as purchasing standard), a nominal AQL of 4% is applied, and capping defectives are considered as minor. 

In our laboratory experience, we have found that many commercially available proteins are not as pure as they are purported to be. Using sensitive silver staining processes and the resolving power of the 2-dimensional technique to examine purchased standards, we have observed multiple forms of purchased proteins. It appears that many companies simply blend proteins to provide major bands for molecular weight controls. Unfortunately, breakdown products and protein impurities may be easily observed. Care must be taken in using these proteins as standards for comparison purposes. 

Sometimes there is a lack of uniformity in the stated molecular weights of proteins in purchased standards. The following molecular weights of commonly used proteins have been suggested as accurate in the biochemical handbooks and from manufacturers selling molecular weight proteins for electrophoresis (28.iZ) ... 

Complicated and changeable relationships exist between resin supplier, compounder, processor, and end user. But operations of all sizes benefit from using materials at effective economies of scale, which depend on market volume, plant size, processing rates, and many other factors. For example, high-volume operations for diverse markets may tend to purchase standard additive formulations that cover a wide range of properties. Companies in smaller volume or specialized markets may rely more on compounders to provide custom formulations or masterbatches. And, in the interest of increased processing flexibility, all processors may seek options for adding additives to resin in-line or nearer the process that forms the final product [1-4],... 

Injection molds comprise the contour-forming elements and the accessory mold structures. For reasons of rationalization, moldmakers have decided to specialize on the contour-forming elements and purchase standardized accessory structures such as plates, bolts, guides, pins, ejectors, etc. from special manufacturers who make and sell them acc. to DIN or factory standards in series and list them in catalogs. 

Including safety-related specifications in purchasing standards assists in attaining corporate goals for superior performance. There is great opportunity here for recognition and accomplishment by safety professionals. In a few companies, suppliers of equipment are not to ship the ordered items until visited by the purchaser s safety personnel, who are to sign off on acceptance. 

With respect to procedures to avoid bringing hazards into the workplace, does the audit system include an examination of the management practices for the design of the workplace, the work methods, and the environmental system, and the purchasing standards ... 

At the local level, we can achieve traceability by purchasing standards from laboratories that have been accredited for their preparation by the body responsible for the national standard. In the UK, the appropriate body is UKAS (The United Kingdom Accreditation Service, part of NPL) and in the USA, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Each country has its own body which in turn participates in the international measurement system. (The overall scheme is shown in Figure 15.1.) By this means, traceability is maintained from local to international level. 

Hand and power tools Purchasing standards, inspection, storage, repair, types, maintenance, grounding, use and handling. 

Purchased standards should come with a certificate of analysis (COA). The COA must also be critically reviewed to understand what method was used for the standard s analysis. For example, if the purity of the standard was determined by isothermal GCMS, could higher-boiling components be present but unseen in the analysis chromatogram If a nonchromatographic technique were used, could it have missed a component or measured a similar one incorrectly ... 

Remember an EPS is never a component, part, subset, or a purchased standard product or custom-designed item that is incorporated into something else - it can only be the finished, complete entity that, when finally installed, is what provides the function that has a direct impact on safety risks or risk-reductions. 

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