Standards Technical Services

As already mentioned, much of the use for plastics just after World War II was as a cheap substitute for traditional materials, and in other cases the material was used for its novelty value. In many instances the result was detrimental to the industry and it required several years of painstaking work by the technical service departments of the major plastics materials manufacturers before confidence was regained in the use of plastics. Even today the public image of plastics is not entirely positive and the significant contribution of plastics to raising the standard of living and quality of life is not fully recognised. 

Clean Room and Work Station Requirements, Controlled Environment, Sec. 1-5 Federal Standard 209, Office of Technical Services, U.S. Department of Commerce, Washington, DC, Dec. 16, 1963. 

Widespread practice has always existed, unfortunately, by owners and operators of cooling systems, or their general contractors and consultants, to specify chemical treatment operating standards in isolation, with little or no actual contact with prospective vendors of water treatment service companies before the issuance of such standards. There is now a growing tendency for particularly low corrosion rates to be specified as a part measure of the quality of water treatment and technical services to be provided in water management contracts (say below 1 mpy for steel in closed-loop systems and below 2 mpy for steel in open-recirculating systems). These low rates are often unattainable in practice. 

Customer visits. Especially by technical service personnel, but increasingly by directly involving R D staff with the customer. The danger with this information is that the customer is often only interested in the immediate problems not with what can be supplied some years down the line. The data needs to be sifted intelligently to sort out the local difficulties from what are inherent problems, amenable to R D work rather than standard technical support A prerequisite, for all personnel who make customer visits, is the need to produce well written visit reports, with the additional requirement to report on new product options. 

Anthony J. Trill joined the Medicines Inspectorate in 1984 and since 1988 has had a leadership responsibility for MHRA GMP standards and inspection guidance relating to computerized systems. He also carries out routine regional GMP inspection work, both in the U.K. and abroad. Before joining the MHRA, he worked for more than 18 years for three multinational pharmaceutical companies in R D, new product and process development, production, QA, and technical services... 

The chapters are arranged in order of volume of usage, and wherever possible standard specifications are presented. In addition, some useful testing standards are quoted in an appendix. This book will serve as a ready reference for those readers who are involved in the construction industry such as civil engineers, consultants, chemists and technical service personnel. 

U. S. Government, patent abstracts and lists issued by Dept, of Agriculture, Bureau of Chemistry and SoHds Dept, of Commerce, National Bureau of Standards, Office of Technical Services Dept, of Interior, Bureau of Mines. 

Documents that may be particularly useful to chemists have been produced by the Office of Scientific Research and Development, Office of Technical Services, Department of Agriculture, National Bureau of Standards, Atomic Energy Commission, the military departments, and the National Archives. The best ways of finding and using such publications are discussed here. 

In the event of a non-standard or accidental occurrence, the situation is reported verbally to management by a detailed level of authority which extends to the Plant Safety Committee. This Committee is composed of the Plant Manager as Chairman, and the managers of Operations, Technical Services, and Health and Safety. The Plant Safety Committee has the responsibility and authority to approve any action to return the off-standard conditions to a safe controllable condition which includes shutting down the reprocessing plant. 

The library also issues a weekly Business Service Check List 37) which lists some of the recent and more useful department publications, including those of the National Bureau of Standards and the Office of Technical Services. 

A large part of the PB collection, which consists of data seized by the Allies after World War II and declassified reports of government-sponsored research, is not indexed in standard chemical indexes. Much of the PB collection relates to the chemical industry, and often details of chemical manufacture are disclosed. The prime source for searching the reports is the index to the Bibliography of Technical Reports issued by the Office of Technical Services. Other indexes and search sources are listed in the bibliography and evaluated. 

ASTM International. 100 Barr Harbor Drive, West Conshohocken, PA 19428-2959, U.S.A. Phone +1 610-832-9585, Fax +1 610-832-9555. E-mail service astm.org. URL http //www.astm.org. Formerly known as the American Society for Testing and Materials, ASTM was formed over a centimy ago. It is one of the largest voluntary standards development organizations in the world, known for technical standards for materials, products, systems, and services. ASTM standards cover a diverse range of industries, and are developed by over 30,000 ASTM members who are technical experts in their fields. Standards, technical publications, journals, and other publications are available at the site. 

The book, Successful Commercial Chemical Development, edited by Corley, says that technical service is the application of technical knowledge to assist customers in understanding a company s standard products and in making the best and most efficient use of them. Application research is defined as applied research in the laboratory, field, or plant necessary for the successful development or improvement of uses for a product. ... 

Technical service is as old as the chemical industry itself. We have no record of the service that was rendered by John Winthrop, Jr., in connection with his early chemical manufacture. He is credited with being the first entrepreneur in the chemical field in colonial days. However, without a chemical process industry available we can be sure that John had to work with and for his customers along the lines of what today we call technical service. This service had to be based on activities in the area now known as applications research. Measured by present-day standards, Winthrop s program was very small and did not encompass a wide range of uses, but actually it was the beginning of today s tremendous effort. 

Richard J. Lewis, Sr., Division of Technical Service, The Industrial Hygiene Branch of The National Institute for Occupational Safety Health, had primary responsibility for the development of this recommended Standard. Although Lewis led the project, input was received from General Motors Corporation, Olin Corporation and Shell Oil Company, the Michigan Department of Health, The University of Missouri, and of course various offices and divisions of NIOSH. The work draws heavy upon NFPA s 704 system and CMA s LAPI Guide to Precautionary Labeling. The recommended colors follow NFPA, as do the three major hazard classes health, reactivity, and flammability. 

Modem construction techniques require the use of superior sealants and caulking compositions. Fortunately, the producers of these materials have provided a strong technical service backup for the civil engineer. Hence, these products are now accepted as standard materials of construction. 

John W. Dean, A Tabulation of the Thermodynamic Properties of Normal Hydrogen from Low Temperatures to i00°X and from 1 to 100 Atmospheres, National Bureau of Standards Technical Note 120, Office of Technical Services, Washington, D.C., 1961, 71 pp. 

Characteristic life based on the section 8 of the cited standard (mean technical-service life) of electric and electronic components and system systems is 17 years long. 

Customers respected Acme for the quality of its product but usually based their purchase decisions on price and availability. All suppliers, licensees who had become Acme competitors, were certified to quality standards. Unlike its rivals. Acme maintained technical services to support its technologies. But quality and technical services — while desirable — seemed to carry little weight in most purchasing decisions. 

Globalisation means that the plastics industry s major customers, such as the automotive and packaging sectors, want the same plastics formulations to be available, with the same uniform quality, whether in Asia, Europe or North America. Customers want additive suppliers to offer similar standards of technical service in all continents. 

In-service inspection of the steam generator tubes should include full tube length examinations. The maximum allowable time between eddy current inspections of an individual steam generator should be limited consistent with the NRC Standard Technical Specifications (STS) and in addition should not extend beyond 72 months. 

The CWS in SWPA was not yet aware, at the end of June, of the War Department supply policy they had heard nothing at all from the United States in the first four months after the establishment of the USAFIA and were to have no word from the Office of the Chief, Chemical Warfare Service, until July. The basic War Department plan was dated 22 January 1942, and the specific plan for the forces in Australia was dated 2 February 1942. The specific War Department plan called for 90 days supply of all classes other than ammunition, computed on the standard tables of basic allowances (TBA) 90 days supply of ground ammunition, computed on the basis of a special ammunition day of supply for weapons in the theater and five months supply of aerial bombs, ammunition, and pyrotechnics, computed according to a special allowance per aircraft in Australia and the Netherlands East Indies. The Adjutant General instructed the technical services in the United States to compute allowances and set up shipments to the San Francisco Port of Embarkation, which was charged with shipment to the theater. The chiefs of the technical services were also charged with allotting funds to the theater for the operation of their services in the theater and for the local procurement of materiel. ... 

You need a proactive program of formal and informal activities to maintain individual competence and contribute to corporate competence. Technical services that fall below the standard of care may be deemed neghgent and result in personal and organizational liability. Your and your employer s best interests require that you remain current and competent in your areas of technical and non-technical specialization. And that responsibility lies primarily with you. Refer to the Chapter 2 section titled Managing Personal Professional Assets Building Individual Equity. ... 

Japanese Industrial Technical Standards In-service Inspection of Light Water Cooled Nuclear Power Plant Components, JEAC 4205-2000, Japan Electric Association, 2000. 

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