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ISO 50001: WHAT & WHY?

ISO 50001:2011 is a standard created by ISO for an energy management system. This standard’s purpose is to enable organisations to follow a systematic approach in achieving continual improvement of energy performance. ISO 50001 aims to help organisations to continually reduce e...

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Free Webinars – Compliance – Health & Safety, Environment, Energy etc.

We are delighted to bring you two free webinars from Antaris Consulting.  Antaris provide SQT’s Quality, Health & Safety, Environment & Energy Training courses.  1.      Can the threat of adverse publicity motivate companies to achieve legal compliance? https://...

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Be Sure to Check the Residuals When Analyzing the Outcome of your Designed Experiments

Continuing his series of tips for people implementing Continuous Process Improvement, our tutor Albert Plant writes: There is a natural tendency for experimenters to hurry to look at the effects graphs, ANOVA’s and other analysis, when they have completed their hard work runni...

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Consider Carefully Whether You Need to Block when Designing Experiments

I think that some experimenters believe that you should always be a case for using blocks when designing experiments. This is not so. There will be circumstances when it will be necessary to consider using blocks, but blocking doesn’t come cheaply. For example, four blocks ...

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Don’t Add Centre Points to Screening Designs when Designing Experiments

Some experimenters believe that you must always include centre points when designing experiments. This is not the case, and in particular, it doesn’t make sense to include centre points when designing screening-type experiments, with large number of factors. Centre points h...

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