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Investing in regular checkups and in changing out parts that have begun to degrade with age and heavy use can extend the life of equipment and stave off major malfunc- tions and quirky performance issues. Most importantly, this allows for more short-term budget flexibility by delaying the need to invest in all new machines or foot the bill for major maintenance. Mark Peyton is Director of Aftermarket at Glen Arm, Maryland based SUN Automation Group.
To those who have never participated in Standards ac- tivities, Frank suggests, “Jump in! The more people that get involved, the more we can build on what we have, the more likely we are to get Standards correct, and the better off we are in terms of producing Standards that work well. Even though we all have day jobs, you can be involved with Standards without having to spend hundreds of hours on them. As a Working Group Chair, much of the time spent working totals three to five hours. Frank says to get started by simply reading Standards, participating in the process, and voting on whether you feel Standards as written are appropriate. By surfacing problems, and either getting them corrected or putting bounds on where the Standard is valid, we can find op- portunities to build new ones, and create fresh ways of identifying, measuring and working with our materials. “It’s satisfying knowing we’ve done it right,” says Frank. “The information we gather, the things we learn, and the way we outline a given Standard helps people understand what they’re doing and why. Standards also help them get right answers. Some people do not realize Standards ex- ist or may be doing testing and not realizing what’s in the Standard. Their results are often different, which brings home the importance of speaking the same language. Those writing Standards invent new words, and people who participate in Working Groups review the Standards, maintaining the dictionary by which we all speak.” To learn more, contact standards@tappi.org.
Participation In The Standards Process Shapes The Industry
Benjamin Frank, Ph.D., Director, Materials Research and Innovation with PCA, is a packaging expert and an active TAPPI member. The former Chair of the Corrugated Division’s Fiber- board Shipping Container Testing Committee (Fiscotec), as well as the Quality and Standards Man- agement Committee (Q&SMC), he is actively involved in Standard Specific Interest Groups (SSIGs), as well as the U.S. Technical Advi- sory Group (TAG) to the International Standards Organiza- tion’s Technical Committee 6 (ISO TC 6). Benjamin Frank
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