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RESEARCH ANDiDEVELOPMENT, NEUCHATEL - QUARTERLY REPORT' DIVISION . QUALITY ASSURANCE + TECHNICAL SERVICES SUBJECT'TITLE . QUALITY ENGINEERING PERIOD COVERED : JULY - SEPTEMBER'88' WRITTEN BY . Henry-P. (HEP)', Morelli-M. (MM0). KEYWORDS . machinery, qualification, kiss, rod~, scanner, visual, quality, audit, PME, methods, focke, protos, kdf3. MACHINERY QUALIFICATION PROCEDURE --------------------------------- --------------------------------- Objective Jointly with local QA's, establish the sampling protocoles for any secondary machinery which has to be qualified within PME. Three machines will be q,ualified~in 1988. Status KDF3 : Qualification will take place in Berlin by December 88 PROTOS 100 : Qualification will take place in Berlin by October 88 FOCKE 700 : Qualification will take place in BoZ by December 88 PROJECT'KISS Objective Establish a complete Quality Program for a new manufacturing! -lacility. Status Several assumptions were made in order to initiate the project. The QA organisation was defined as well as the level of studies of the personnel, the equipment necessary and the premises req,uired. Plan The package will now stay on stand-by at its draft stage until vie receive more information from PM-EEMA.

RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT, NEUCHATEL - QUARTERLY REPORT HANDBOOK FOR VISUAL QUALITY AUDIT OF FINISHED PRODUCTS The project status is reported in the PRODUCT AUDIT GROUP part of this quarterly report. ROD SCANNER EVALUATION Objective Evaluate the efficiency of "on-line" Rod'Scanners available on the market i.e. CIM from Accu-Ray and ORIS from Hauni. Status The testing of Clri on MK9 has been completed in Brussels and in. FTIk although ti'zc, test continues in Berlin with OR'IS and! PROTOS. Plan The rinal report of CIhS Rou, Scanner onN`K9is expected to~ becompleted by October 8'8. PME NiETHODS MANUAL Several P.~iEmethodsarebeii,a; aeveDoped~ oiithin theQual'ity. Engineering group : - Determination of Filter Firmness with FILTROPvA DHT - Sampling Procedure for Strip Tbbaccos. - Standard Format for PME Methods. HEP/vep/September 30, 1988 q,r38'8qehep