Tooling ownership

Tooling ownership— Unlike other equipment used in plastics processing, tooling is normally procured to manufacture a specific part or product. Often, the purchaser of the part or product will pay a fee up front to cover of cost of tooling. It is often assumed that the purchaser owns the tooling. However, without written documentation to support that claim, ownership of the tooling cannot be certain. 

If a faciHty is large enough to support an in-house maintenance department, management of such a department has the responsibiHty to assure that its maintenance and operation s program is at all times cost effective. The greatest benefit of an in-house maintenance department must be its spirit of ownership. Workers should be trained to have pride of ownership, and must be given the tools to maintain this pride. 

The work must also be the product of an author. That is, a human being has created the work, even if at the behest or for the ownership of a corporate entity and even if a machine or device, such as a camera or a computer program, was used as a tool in the creative process. 

The standard requires customer-owned tools and equipment to be permanently marked so that ownership of each item is visually apparent. 

A useful example of sustainable design comes from BASF, and their development of the eco-efficiency tool. This tool seeks to integrate the combined aspects of each of the three pillars in an attempt to quantify the most sustainable products and illustrates some of the concerns associated with evaluating sustainable products. For example, the economic analysis includes a total cost of ownership that goes beyond the purchase price of a product to incorporate the cost of operation, the cost of environmental health and safety, and the cost of labour. Thus, even though a product may have a lower purchase price, it may be more expensive to use and thus costlier over the total life cycle of the product. 

We re doing away with our traditional maintenance mindset of using heroic measures to fix something.. . our approach is to take ownership, to use predictive tools to get ahead of problems.. .. [7]... 

The Data Handling and Record Retention section of the protocol will address the requirement to maintain data (whether on a paper CRF or using an electronic data collection tool (DCT)) of each trial subject. It will address expectations of ownership of the completed CRF data, the investigator s responsibility to ensure accuracy and completeness of data recording. This section will also address the requirements for retention of records at the trial site in accordance with relevant guidelines and regulatory requirements. 

The complexity and expense of fab construction and operation have led to the development of detailed models for the cost-of-ownership of tools and usage of consumables. These models often call for the subcontracting of services to specialized firms. Such services include front-end processes such as siliddation and ion implantation, and back-end processes such as assembly, electrical test, and packaging. Foundry manufacturers such as Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation (TSMC) and Singapore s Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing represent successful examples of this trend. 

Carbon deposition occurs when EUV photons crack residual hydrocarbons in the vicinity of an EUV optic or reticle. These hydrocarbons may originate from a number of sources such as outgassing of resists or other materials inside the scanner environment, residual air in the exposure chamber, etc. Once deposited, these carbon deposits can be cleaned with minimal or no damage to the underlying multilayer film. This could allow repeated cleaning cycles to be performed to extend the lifetime of an optics system. In this scenario, the frequency and duration of the cleaning procedure could be integrated into the operation of the tool in such a way that acceptable productivity and cost of ownership are maintained. ... 

Every month, a calendar that contains the names of every employee in a work cell or department is posted in the cell or department. Every day each employee adds a green sticker, with a safety cross printed on it, to the previous day on the calendar if they worked that day without a safety incident or injury. This simple tool requires each employee to take ownership of their safety and report on the results. The action of applying the sticker reinforces a safety first mentality in every employee every day. It is a cultural-changing safety process. Compare that with your standard safety calendar that contains a new slogan every month. 

In the last chapter, one of the lean tools recommended for the building of world-class safety was teams. A formal team-based structure that distributes responsibility for safety process ownership is a great approach. Safety team membership requirements can be based on desire or interest rather than title. It can be cross functional because the team can and should be staffed from all areas and all levels of the organization. Let s start by identifying some of the key positions that would have to be filled on any safety team. 

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