Designed for the quality professional with a basic understanding of traditional SPC, this book presents solutions for the problems encountered when trying to apply traditional control charting techniques in a complex manufacturing environment. Anyone using SPC who has felt limited by its traditional methods will find this book timely and beneficial. Along with basic SPC topics such as, control chart theories, process capability studies, data collection strategies, and sampling, this book concentrates on describing tools which solve the limitations of traditional SPC techniques. Specifically designed for those who face the challenges of limited data collection opportunities, small production runs, multiple characteristics, and demanding manufacturing situations, Innovative Control Charting will become a favorite, modern SPC reference. Benefits: Discover how SPC can be effectively applied even with complex parts, numerous part dimensions, similar but different characteristics, and small lot sizes. Learn how to overcome the three main limitations of traditional SPC techniques. Explore new SPC techniques in a step-by-step analysis approach using real-life examples.

"NIST Special Publication 922 "Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Structure Index" is presented as an aid in the identification of the chemical structures and nomenclature of 660 common (and not so common) polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). This electronic version of the Structure Index allows you to browse or search to display name(s), chemical structures, Chemical Abstract Service (CAS) Registry numbers, molecular weights, and molecular descriptors. The database may be searched by name and/or molecular weight."--Home page.

The National Status and Trends (NS&T) Program, was initiated in 1984 by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to address concerns about the condition of the Nation's coastal and estuarine ecosystems1,2. This Program consists of the National Benthic Surveillance (established in 1984) and Mussel Watch, one of the longest (inaugural year, 1986) nation-wide continuous contaminant monitoring programs in U.S. coastal waters3. The goal of the NS&T Program is to quantify current status and long-term trends in concentrations of selected contaminants in biological indicator organisms and environmental matrices of coastal and estuarine areas in the U.S.2 In the initial years of the Program, benthic fish, shellfish, sediment, and bivalve tissue were collected on a regular basis for real-time chemical analysis from sites along the U.S. In addition to real-time analysis and monitoring of these materials, the Program collects samples of mussels and oysters for long-term banking and future retrospective analyses. Due to a decrease in funding, specimen banking for the Program ended in 1992; however specimen banking for the Mussel Watch portion resumed in 20054. Each collection year, approximately 10% of the samples that are collected from Mussel Watch sites are archived at one of two specimen bank facilities operated by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)5: the National Biomonitoring Specimen Bank (NBSB), established in 1987, located on the main NIST campus in Gaithersburg, Maryland, and the Marine Environmental Specimen Bank (Marine ESB), established in 1998, located at the Hollings Marine Laboratory in Charleston, South Carolina. This report describes the program history, and the detailed collection, processing, and long-term storage protocols practiced by NIST's Environmental Specimen Banking System for Mussel Watch.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), in support of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Marine Mammal Health and Stranding Response Program (NOAA/MMHSRP), conducts annual interlaboratory comparison exercises for the determination of chlorinated pesticides, polychlorinated biphenyl congeners (PCBs), and trace elements in marine mammal tissues. These exercises provide one mechanism for laboratories to evaluate their measurement quality and comparability for these constituents in marine mammal tissues. In the 2005 exercise, 4 and 17 laboratories participated in determining the concentrations of selected fatty acids and PCBs and organochlorine pesticides, respectively, in a homogenized blubber control material Marine Mammal Quality Assurance Exercise Homogenate VII (Homogenate VII) and Standard Reference Material (SRM) 1945 Organics in Whale Blubber. This report includes the results reported by the participating laboratories, combined consensus data results, and summary statistics for each analyte in the samples. The numerical indices used to assess laboratory performance are also discussed.