Receiving and Verifying Materials

Incoming materials must be checked for conformance with the specification and purchase order, and then labeled accordingly. Materials received and stored must be compared with the purchase order and accompanying paperwork. Mechanics and crafts people must conduct a field audit of the materials before putting them into service. 

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RECEIVING AND VERIFYING MATERIALS SUPPLY CHAIN-ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES... 

The many handoffs in the materials procurement supply chain makes it difficult to control the quality and accuracy of items. Job function responsibilities at the receiving and verifying end of the supply chain are as follows ... 

This pocket guide describes effective methods of specifying, procuring, receiving, and verifying critical materials. It describes how materials are tested and identified, and explains the differences between the various production methods for materials. The object is to provide all people in the supply chain with the tools to prevent costly materials mix-ups. 

Based on the verification process already defined, upon receipt of purchased material the laboratory inspects and verifies that the received materials conform to the purchase requirements. When the verification is made at the supplier s premises there is a need to make arrangements for such verification and for a definition of the method for the release of products. 

While the COA is the excipient manufacturer s responsibility, once the material is received, it is the drug product manufacturers responsibility to verify the product and ensure that it is properly tested, handled, and stored. Upon receipt of a shipment, each lot of excipient will be withheld from use until the lot is sampled, tested, or examined according to the written procedures. The quality control (QC) personnel will examine each container for (i) manufacturer s name, (ii) manufacturer s lot number, (iii) leaks or spills, (iv) contamination, (v) breached containers, (vi) proper labeling, and (vii) material safety data sheet and determined material hazards. 

A receiving inspection program consists of comparison of the purchase order with what is received. If the vendor s test reports are required with the shipment, it is verified that they were received and that the test values are acceptable, as defined by the original material specification. 

CRMs to finalise the method development, to validate analytical procedures and finally control in time the accuracy of procedures, are rare and valuable materials, in particular matrix CRMs. They should tell the analyst how his entire measurement procedure is performing. He will receive information on precision as well as on trueness. CRMs are primarily developed to check for trueness, which is the most difficult property to verify. Precision can be tested on RMs or can be estimated from published data e.g. the performance required by a standard method, whereas the evaluation of trueness is possible only with external help a CRM or a properly organised interlaboratory study. Having a CRM allows one to perform the verification of trueness whenever the operator wants it. The analyst should never forget that only when accurate results (precise and true) are achieved, comparability in space and over time is guaranteed. But to exploit to a maximum the information on trueness delivered by the CRM, the precision must also be sufficient and verified. 

Summary This chapter describes metal manufacturing and heat treatment methods and their available geometries (shapes). Manufacturing method and heat treatment exert a significant effect on properties and service performance. Shape influences final fabrication cost. It is necessary to procure materials per the design requirement or drawing and verify the correct item has been received. 

Radiation Safety Service (RSS) who receive all radioactive materials, verify, survey, and log in the materials, and then deliver them to the proper labs. Though undergraduates seldom handle radiolabelled materials, they may work in a research lab where such materials are used, in which case the undergraduates receive appropriate training. Some sealed sources have been used in an upper level teaching lab. One of the lower level courses often uses a neutron source in a lecture demonstration of radioactive decay principles. 

The materials received are inspected, verified, and documented. The products supplied by the subcontractor are verified (describe the procedure suitable for your company). 

Exposure of an organism to a surfactant in surface water will depend on the amount of material used, disposal practice, removal rate during sewage treatment, dilution in the receiving stream, and sorption on particles or aquatic dissolved organic carbon. The exposure component of an environmental hazard assessment utilizes information from the fate studies described in the previous section, mathematical modeling to predict environmental concentrations, and environmental monitoring to verify model predictions. 

The analytical laboratory is an important but often overlooked member of the project team good communications with the laboratory are essential for the project success. The laboratory that conducts analysis of project samples will usually provide the sample containers, coolers for shipping samples, and the packing materials. The laboratory should have as much advanced notification as possible to prepare the appropriate containers and ship them to the sampling crew. After the sampling containers have been received, a member of a sampling crew should verify that the quantities and preservation chemicals are correct and meet the SAP requirements. 

It has been proposed by the European Committee for the Standardization of Tests of Explosive Materials ) that the transmission of industrial explosives be evaluated as follows. Two cartridges of the smallest commercially manufactured diameter are coaxially attached on a rod made of soft iron, wood or plastic material. The rod is freely suspended in a horizontal position, and the impact cartridge is set off by a No. 8 blasting cap. For the determination of the gap value the distance between the two cartridges is increased step by step, until misfire of the acceptor charge occurs. The completeness of the detonation in the receiving cartridge is verified with the aid of a lead sheet accommo-... 

The defense had requested that documentary evidence be obtained to verify Freimark s illness. The Court received such papers the day before the verdict was handed down, and beheved it had reason to rejoice. The documents that had been located - medical papers from concentration camp Auschwitz - proved, it said, that the witness, Freimark, had been examined in the Inmate s Infirmary in August and September 1944 for suspected typhus. It was felt that, aside from eyewitness testimony that needed to he artificially lauded to the skies, one had now finally found some material (even though presumptive) evidence that might serve as spur to the intent to convict circumstantial... 

Taking into consideration the method of °Sr analysis, the activity equilibrium state between °Sr and its decay product °Y is very important. This state is attained 12 days after the separation of radiostrontium [62]. The reliability of the received results of °Sr determination depends on the minimum detectable activity (MDA) [5]. The MDA should be calculated for each analysis sample. Generally, the separation of °Sr with the use of fuming HNO3, and subsequent co-precipitation of radium, lead, and barium as chromates, is used for the analysis of flora, soil, ash filters, and water samples. The fusion products (e.g., Cs) are removed by co-precipitation of the hydroxides, then transformed into yttrium oxalate, and the activity of °Y measured in a low-level proportional counter. The yield is controlled by measuring the activity of Sr (gamma emitter) added to each sample before analysis as an internal tracer [1, 46]. The accuracy of the analytical results obtained should be verified in a validation process with the use of certified reference materials (CRMs). 

Articles must be identified in the inventory database with a unique code before they can be received into the pilot plant. Upon receipt, the materials should be checked, verified, and labeled with inventory and quarantine labels. A receipt report is electronically received by the QA group, which initiates appropriate sampling. The sampled material, which to this point is kept in a secure holding area, is moved to a warehouse upon release by QA. Any change of location is recorded in the computer system. 

You are about to perform a quick scan from 5 to 70° 20 to verify the crystallinity of your material and to check whether or not the receiving slit is of adequate width. You are planning for the experiment which will take 10 to 15 min overall. Which scanning mode (step scan or continuous scan) is the best to accomplish the task and why ... 

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