Supplier associations

Key issues What are supplier associations, and the Japanese keiretsu  

Supplier networks can be formal or informal groups of companies whose common interest is that they all supply a particular customer, or support an entire industry. Three such networks are considered here  

The provision of manufacturing tools and techniques such as )IT, kanban and TQM Improve knowledge and application of best practice tools and techniques within the supply base 

Produce a uniform supply system Remove muda (waste) from the system then standardise process management in all parts of the supply chain 

Facilitate flow of information and strategy formulation The assembler assists the suppliers in formulating an improvement strategy by providing best practice information 

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Gas Processors Suppliers Association Engineering Data Book, 9th ed.. Gas Processors SuppHers Association, Tulsa, OHa., 1972,1977. 

FIG. 16-49 Two-bed TSA system with regeneration equipment. Reprinted with permission of GPSA. Reference Engineering Data Book, 10th ed.. Gas Processors Suppliers Association, Tulsa, 1988, Sec. 20, p. 22. )... 

The family of short curves in Fig. 29-45 shows the power efficiency of conventional refrigeration systems. The curves for the latter are taken from the Engineering Data Book, Gas Processors Suppliers Association, Tulsa, Oklahoma. The data refer to the evaporator temperature as the point at which refrigeration is removed. If the refrigeration is used to cool a stream over a temperature interval, the efficiency is obviously somewhat less. The short curves in Fig. 29-45 are for several refrigeration-temperature intervals. A comparison of these curves with the expander curve shows that the refrigeration power requirement by expansion compares favorably with mechanical refrigeration below 360° R (—100° F). The expander efficiency is favored by lower temperature at which heat is to be removed. 

GPSA 1987. Engineering Data Book. Chapter 3, Measurement and Chapter 4, Instrumentation. Gas Processors Suppliers Association, Tulsa, OK. 

GPSA Data Book, Vol. II, Gas Processors Suppliers Association, 10th Ed., 1987. 

GPSA Engineering Data Book, Natural Gas Processors Suppliers Association, 8th Ed., 1966 and 9th Ed., 1972. 

Source Modified courtesy of the Gas Processors Suppliers Association. 

Engineering Data Book, Ninth Edition, 1972, 4th Revision 1979, Tulsa, OK Gas Processors Suppliers Association, 1972, 1979, pp. 4—12, 4-13. 

Figure 2-4. Thermal conductivity of natural and hydrocarbon gases at 1 atmosphere, 14.696 psia. (From Gas Processors Suppliers Association, Engineering Data Book, 10th Edition.)...

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