Whitepapers

How to Avoid and Respond to FDA Criticisms—Form 483 Letters—for Temperature, Humidity and other Controlled Environments

The following article shows three excerpts from some of the more common "observations" noted in Form 483 Letters during 2008-2009. After the excerpts, we’ll outline some best practices of a 483 response, providing you with a 10-point checklist that should make that 15-day time limit more manageable, and some links for further research. Finally, we’ll look at ways to simplify and automate monitoring, alarming and reporting on FDA regulated environments.

How to Optimize Performance and Minimize Costs in Refrigerator and Freezer Liners

Styrenic resins such as High Impact PolyStyrene (HIPS) and Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene (ABS) copolymer are used to manufacture liners. Refrigerator manufacturers are continuously optimizing their liner manufacturing operation to improve the overall refrigerator quality but also to reduce costs. Styron/Dow Chemical Company.pdf

Santoprene™ Brand TPVs: Design Guidelines for Thermoplastic Vulcanizates (TPVs)

This document is a compilation of the experience within the Santoprene specialty products group of ExxonMobil Chemical (Advanced Elastomer Systems [AES]) on a variety of topics related to the design of rubber parts. Design Guidelines for Thermoplastic Vulcanizates (TPVs).pdf

Xten Industries press testing & metering results

Download the most recent letter showing Kinergetics’ findings on the efficiency of three of Xten’s presses: Xten.pdf

Industrial Energy Optimization: Managing energy consumption for higher profitability

The Rockwell Automation strategy aligns energy consumption with energy demand. Rockwell_automation.pdf

Optimizing mold temperature control for better products

EOS_Whitepaper.pdf

Electroless nickel coatings offer molders a host of advantages

Coatings can be advantageous and in many applications are even essential for proper performance, protection, lifetime, and many other factors. Selecting the proper coating for each application, therefore, is vital. For coating of injection molds, the choice of potential coatings is broad, out of necessity as these molds see use in equally broad range of climates, requirements and usage conditions.

Using barcoding to improve efficiency

Dynamic Systems Inc.

Mirel Bioplastics: The fundamental differences between processing high-performance bioplastics and conventional plastics

Telles.pdf

Advanced implementation of the MuCell process in commercial applications

MuCell_design.pdf