Quality Assurance in Ceramic Industries

ISBN-13: 9781461329510 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 266 str.

V. D. Frechette

Opis

Quality Assurance in Ceramic Industries represents the proceedings of a conference held at the New York State College of Ceramics, Alfred University, June 4-7, 1978, as fifteenth in a continuing series rotated annually among Alfred University, North Carolina State University, Notre Dame University and the University of California, Berkeley. The first four chapters develop the rationale for major efforts toward an integrated quality assurance program in the ceramic plant, to effect economy in manufacture, to reduce process losses and to improve product reliability and overall profitability. Chapters 5 and 6 cover the use of traditional and advanced statistical methods. They are followed by three chapters on quality assurance in raw materials production and procurement. Chapters 9 through 20 treat specific examples of techniques, sys tems and philosophy of quality assurance in glass, whitewares, abrasives, refractories, electroceramics, structural clay pro ducts and special ceramics for nuclear applications, turbines and igniters. The three concluding chapters deal with the broadly applicable subjects of failure analysis, gaging and life time predic tion. It is a pleasure to acknowledge the generous help and encouragement of the Program Committee: Messrs. R. A. Alliegro, Norton Company; D. L. Guile and R. N. McNally, Corning Glass Works; H. W. Larisch, Coors Porcelain Company; R. H. Lester, Ohio Brass Company (now at the Lapp Insulator Division of Interpace Corporation); R. J. Ryder, Brockway Glass Company and E. A. Thomas, Taylor Refractories Division, N L Indus trie s ."

Spis treści

1. The Hidden Sales Force.- 2. Planned Production Experiments for Cost and Energy Savings.- 3. Product Liability and Quality Assurance.- 4. Quality Assurance and the Adversary System.- 5. Teaching Quality Assurance Fundamentals to Ceramic Engineering Students.- 6. Newer Techniques in Statistical Quality Control.- 7. Quality Assurance for Glass Batch Raw Materials.- 8. Quality Assurance for Alcoa Chemicals.- 9. Practical Composition Control for the Glass Industry.- 10. High Voltage Electrical Porcelain.- 11. Quality Assurance in the Abrasive Industry.- 12. Multifaceted Quality Program for Advanced Ceramic Turbine Components.- 13. Quality Assurance in Processing Refractories.- 14. Integrated Quality Assurance System in the Manufacture of Ceramic Components for Use in the Electronic Industry.- 15. Quality Assurance in the Structural Clay Products Industry Begins at the Grass Roots.- 16. Ceramic Foodware Safety.- 17. Ceramic Igniters: A Glimpse of Future Certification Requirements.- 18. Quality Assurance in the German Ceramic Industry.- 19. Quality Control in the Clay Pipe Industry: A Constant Challenge.- 20. Quality Assurance in the Manufacture of BeO-UO2 Nuclear Fuel Elements.- 21. Fractography and Quality Assurance of Glass and Ceramics.- 22. Evolution of an Electro-optical Automatic Gaging System.- 23. Assessment of Long-Range Reliability of Ceramic Products.