Archive for August, 2010

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Understanding ISO 9001 Workshop

ISO 9001 Certification Comes At A High Price. Small companies just don’t have the money to get certified.

In This Tough Economy – COMPLIANCE Is The Way To Go.

The ISO 9001 Standard is loaded with quality guidelines that promote process efficiency and cost reduction. When implemented properly, your business will improve.

Question: What good is a great quality system if you spend all of your money on certification? You’ll have no business to certify if you do that.

The intent of ISO Standards is to insure that you and your management team make good decisions that allow you to grow and improve your business. Spending $10,000 – $15,000 on online implementation tools and little to no face-to-face support is not a good decision for small business owners at this time. Depending on the size of your organization, this bill could reach up to and beyond $100,000. Then you still have to spend money on the actual certification. That will be another $5,000 – $15,000 commitment and could reach or exceed $120,000 , depending on the size of your organization and the complexity of your systems.

The OPAL Plan:

Learn the standard – The Understanding ISO 9001:2008 Workshop is a special forum that will provide you with detailed information about the standard.

This is not just an overview and sales pitch! This is an engaging session where you will learn the standard and walk away with information that you can put to use right away.

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LUX – Davis Underground Laboratory

LUX occupies the previous location of Ray Davis’ solar neutrino detection experiment, initiated in 1965, which earned him a Nobel Prize in 2002. The Davis laboratory is one of the deepest science facilities of its size, providing 7 orders of magnitude reduction in the cosmic muon ux. The environment of the new Davis

laboratory is separated from the Yates drift by airlocks, and is maintained at better than class 100,000. Localized clean rooms will be supported, providing clean levels better than class 1,000.

The 300 ton water shield in Davis provides a world-leading facility for ultra-low background experiments. The 8 meter diameter

tank accommodates the LUX detector, suppressing gamma and low energy (<10 MeV) neutron ux by 10 and 3 orders of magnitude, respectively. The water is maintained with a purity better than ppt levels of Uranium and Thorium. Residual cosmic muon events are vetoed via Cerenkov light. The thick water shield also significantly moderates high-energy neutrons (10 MeV to 1 GeV) coming from cosmic ray events in the rock. The water tank can also readily accommodate a future generation of low background experiments.