Service equipment, procurement

Gregory Nelson is group vice-president and president, service, equipment, and alternate sales channels at Nalco. Previously he worked at Sun Chemical, Union Carbide, and Dow Chemical in senior procurement and supply chain positions, and for 20 years at Exxon in a range of roles. Gregory Nelson holds a BS in mechanical engineering from Cornell University. 

After establishing the requirement, coordination committee, and pohcy, the next stage in the process is equipment procurement. This involves first identifying candidate POCT equipment having the prerequisite analytical and operational capabilities to meet the clinical requirements of a POCT service. As discussed in Chapter 15, the performance characteristics of these devices are then obtained and compared. These include parameters such as accuracy, precision, TAT, calibration frequency, potential interferants, calibrator... 

In addition to toxic, incendiary, and smoke ammunition and bombs, as well as chemical warfare offensive weapons and equipment, the CWS was responsible for the procurement of a variety of service equipment. The latter included a truck mounted with a swinging boom crane, a chemical service truck, a chemical service trailer, a unit for mixing toxic and incendiary agents in the field, and a set for maintaining and repairing chemical warfare equipment in the field. Several of these items presented unusual problems of development and procurement. Table 8)... 

Unless otherwise indicated, discussion of items of service equipment is based on History of Chicago CWPD, 1 Jan 45-15 Aug 45 CWS Report of Production 1 Jan 40 through 31 Dec 45, pp. 27, 31 and Interv, Hist Off with Lt Col Robert C. Hinckley, 9 Jan 58. Col. Hinckley was Chief, Procurement Division, Chicago CWPD in World War 11. The CWS procured most of its service equipment through that distria. 

In addition to large quantities of service equipment, toxic agents, and raw chemicals the CWS in World War II procured a variety of defensive and offensive munitions. Included among the defensive items were the gas masks, impregnite, impregnating plants, protective ointment, detector kits, decontaminating apparatus and such miscellaneous items as shoe impregnite and dust respirators. 

The formation of the Ordnance Department resulted from four events following cessation of hostilities in 1784. In 1785, the Secretary of War was charged with taking into his care all military stores, equipment, and supplies of the US Army. Second, a Surveyor of Ordnance was authorized in 1789. Third, Congress provided for the erection and repair of magazines and arsenals, and for the establishment of national armories. Fourth, in 1795, a Purveyor of Public Supplies was appointed to conduct the procurement of all military and naval stores necessary for the service of the USA. Finally, the establishment of the Ordnance Department as a separate corps was effected by Congressional Act of 14 May 1812... 

A spokesman for Combustion Engineering, Inc. which is providing engineering procurement and construction services for the project, said it had advised suppliers to suspend any response to inquiries about meterials and equipment. Vendors were advised that the project is in a state of suspension." (2)... 

Logistics Section Chief The logistics section chief has a mission to ensure that all resources and support required by the other sections are readily available. Responsibilities include maintenance of the environment and procurement of supplies, equipment, and food. Logistics ensures that the operations staff can focus on delivering services. 

Test, measurement, and diagnostic equipment germane to the mission must be procured and technicians trained on its proper use, calibration, and service. 

IV.74. For the purposes of Appendix IV, the following terms, as defined in Safety Series No. 113 [IV.3], apply applicant, assessment, audit, controlled document, corrective action, design input, design output, examination, inspection. Item, maintenance/servicing, measuring and test equipment, non-conformance, objective evidence, procedure, procurement document, qualification, quality, quality elements, quality assurance programme, quality plan, repair, services, specification, supplier, traceability, user, and verification. 

Fill Materials. Since the fill material is an additional fabrication material that becomes a part of the design construction, procurement documentation is required to specify a fill material type and thereby implement the via fill process. The selection and documentation of the fill material require the same consideration as the base laminate preference. This is especially critical when targeting a lead-free-compatible process. Currently, an industry-based material specification for via fill material does not exist.Therefore, specific fill-material brands may be named on the drawing, or some other form of user/supplier agreement must be established.The fabricator has preferences for the type of material used for via fill. Just as suppliers often have preferences for a specific solder mask brand, they also often prefer to use of a specific via fill material around which they have developed their principal processes. Supplier preferences can be driven by specific via fill material characteristics, such as accessibility, equipment compatibility, process supportability, plateability, and/or shelf/pot life. This may complicate source selection, or it might influence the use of a dedicated service center for the hole-fill process. The fabricator may not always know the reliability of its preferred material for a given via structure or end-use environment. 

For investment of electric vehicles for materials handling it has to be regarded that in a normal use the costs of a traction battery during its useful life are between 50 and 75% of the costs of the vehicle (without the battery). Here is one example the price for a forklift truck was 12,000 EUR the service life was 8 years. In this time two to three traction batteries, each for a price of 3000 EUR had to be procured. This very simple comparison shows that it would have been more economical to purchase only two batteries instead of three. It has to be noticed that the extension of life of a battery depends on design and quality of the battery and the charging method and charging equipment. 

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