Site performance improvement

Improved Quality and Timeliness of Data Site Performance Tracking... 

The terms and definition taken from ISO 9004 2000, Fig. 1, Quality management systems-guidelines for performance improvements, are reproduced with the permission of the International Organization for Standardization, ISO. This standard can be obtained from any ISO member and from the Web site of the ISO Cental Secretariat with the following address www.iso.org. Copyright remains with ISO. 

The standard required a site review, and a head-office level review of all reported occurrences. There was good cooperation between head-office and the plant to get the system underway. Apparent inconsistencies between the definition of the class, and the examples were fairly quickly resolved, with the help of head-office. A data-base of events was established, with an extensive sort facility. The system became very well respected and well used, and much improvement of performance was achieved through experience feedback. Near-misscs were reported freely, from which much information was gained in order to facilitate performance improvement and the development of error tolerant. and error recovery systems. 

Facility managers use a variety of metrics to monitor operating, maintenance, and process safety performance at their site. These metrics often include a consolidated or aggregated view of metrics as well as some selected detailed data of interest. These reports can indicate the process safety system performance across the site and provide a performance comparison for individual operating units. This allows the site manager to compare performance among the site operating units and use this information to focus performance improvement efforts. Metrics reports often include but are not limited to items such as ... 

Kitamoto and Abe applied power ultrasonic waves (19.5 kHz, 600 W) to 300 ml of FeCh aqueous solution (pH 7.0) at 70 °C, and succeeded in encapsulating polyacrylate spheres of 250 nm diameter with magnetite ferrite coatings [49]. From TEM observations of the cross sections it was seen that the polymer spheres were covered with uniform columnar crystallites of 30-40 nm in diameter at the bottom and 60-70 nm at the top. The ultrasound waves produce OH groups on the polymer surfaces which work as ferrite nucleation sites this improves the quality of the ferrite coatings. The ferrite-encapsulated particles will greatly improve the performance of the enzyme immunoassay as a cancer test reagent. The above possible mechanism for the formation of the blue oxide is consistent with explanations in the literature for a sonochemical reaction. 

Performance improvement in 1102 is achieved by doping the titania with platinum or vanadium oxide and copper. In order to improve the adsorption characteristics of Ti02, attempts have been made to support fine Ti02 on the porous adsorbent materials such as silica, alumina, activated carbon, clay, and zeolites. Ti02-supported adsorbent provides higher specific surface area and introduces more effective adsorption sites than bare Ti02. Decomposition rates of the substrates are found to increase due to one or... 

In 1999, the Board of Commissions established an Oversight Task Force for the Accreditation Process Improvement (API) Initiative. The purpose is to oversee the continuous improvement in the accreditation process. The resulting changes are intended to enhance the evaluation of critical patient safety and patient care functions and to achieve an accreditation process that remains consultative and focused on performance improvement. A white paper was published outlining a future operational model that will continue to build and expand on technology, performance data, presurvey self-assessments, a fully automated interface with JCAHO, increased surveyor development, and a more continuous accreditation process. Instead of a once every 3 years site visit, two 18-month site visits would occur that evaluate select standards. In addition, since health care entities are so diverse, there is a desire to create a model that is more data driven, less predictable, and more customized to an individual organization. 

In a typical polymer film, three possible carrier transporting pathways are marked with arrows in Fig. 2.1 la (1) intrachain carrier transport, which is very fast and efficient (2) interchain carrier transport at well-ordered sites, which may adopt a hopping mechanism like ordered small molecules (3) interchain carrier transport at loosely contacted sites, which is very slow. Therefore, the carrier transport is obviously hmited by the loosely contact sites, and improve the carrier mobility at pathway (3) is crucial for high-performance polymeric FETs. One effective way to reduce the zones of pathway (3) is to increase the interpolymer chain interactions and thereby to increase the polymer packing orders. 

The phosphate monitors in use can experience problems, as a result of chemical reagent quality and monitor reliability. In the Wales case study, this prompted a comprehensive review leading to site-specific improvements where necessary and the adoption of a minimum acceptable criterion for monitoring that the standard deviation of results should not exceed 0.2 mgA (P). The range in dosing performances that were experienced is illustrated by Figure 8.4, but were soon improved where necessary it was found that the application of ortho-phosphate at a constant or near constant dose is necessary to maximise its effect. 

Mild oxidation of graphite was found to improve anode performance. Improvement was attributed to the formation of SEI chemically bonded to the surface carboxylic and oxide groups at the zig-zag and armchair faces, better wetting by the electrolyte and to accommodation of extra lithium at the zig-zag, armchair and other edge sites and nanovoids. Graphite-surface modification by silylation and the creation of the core-shell-structured carbon composite look promising for the enhancement of electrochemical performance. 

The US Department of Energy, Human Performance Improvement Handbook, Volume II, has several surveys and tools that can be used to aid in defining the organizational safety climate, human performance gap analysis tool, and a job site condihons self-assessment (Volume 2 Human performance tools for individuals, work teams, and management, human performance improvement handbook, 2009). 

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