Tools and Techniques for Automating, Simplifying and Enhancing Product Testing
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Tools and Techniques for Automating, Simplifying and Enhancing Product Testing Course
Introduction:
In order to improve reports on finished products, today's high-throughput oil and petrochemical laboratories require systems that not only automate laboratory data capture and processing but also facilitate communication. In addition, the industry must maintain compliance with regulatory safety and product requirements, maximize the efficiency and throughput of ongoing processes, ensure that its products meet quality standards, and oversee its operations through stringent testing and real-time monitoring. The chemical and petrochemical industries have significant cost sensitivities, therefore producing and delivering goods swiftly and affordably is essential. Increasing commercial and regulatory demands are making these cost-saving initiatives more difficult.
Course Objectives:
- The values and principle of product testing and how to adopt the right mindset
- How to overcome process obstacles in product transitions
- Common pitfalls of product testing and how to avoid them
- The selection and validation of methods.
- Establishing the traceability of measurements and the selection and use of reference materials.
- The evaluation of measurement uncertainty.
- Defining and implementing test management strategies
Who Should Attend?
This program is designed for Laboratory Managers, Technicians & Quality Assurance staff.
Course Outlines:
Introduction
Product testing
- Purposes
- Term
- History
- Roles
- Government role
- Industry role
- Consumer organization role
Enhancing Testing Skills with Mindset Tools
- The Mindset Tools
- The Tester’s Mindset
- Mindset Tweaks
Decision analyst
- Product-Testing Secrets
- The Major Techniques
- Non-packaged Goods Categories
- Competitive Advantage
Modern Testing Principles (MOP)
Unit testing best practice
- Standards vs. principles
- Unit testing principles
Overcoming process obstacles in product transitions
- Resistance to Change
- Great Things Never Came From Comfort Zones
- Distributed Team
- Make Sure Everyone’s on the Same Page
- Changing Team Membership
- Wasteful Daily Stand-Up Meetings
- Handling Bugs and Urgent On-Demand Tasks
- Integrating Testing in the Sprint
Developing an Agile Testing Mindset and Automating
Common pitfalls of product testing and how to avoid them
- Inadequate concept specification.
- Missing or bad pricing
- Surveying the wrong population
- Ignoring key drivers
- Wrong methodology
- Inadequate sample sizes
The selection and validation of methods
- Accuracy
- Bias-systematic
- Calibration
- Certified Reference Material (CRM)
- Laboratory developed methods-methods
- Reference method-method
- Validation
Establishing the traceability of measurements and the selection and use of
reference materials
- Principles of traceability
- Traceability: The International Definition
- International System of Quantities and Units (SI)
- Establishing Traceability
- Choice of the Reference
- Reporting Traceability
The evaluation of measurement uncertainty
- Introduction to measurement uncertainty evaluation
- Approaches to measurement uncertainty evaluation
- International activity
- Uncertainty (of measurement)
- Where do uncertainties come from?
- The starting point
- The finishing point
- Model of measurement
- Quantifying inexactness
- Type A” and “Type B”
- Propagation of distributions
- Implementations
- Conventional uncertainty propagation
- Evaluating expanded uncertainty