Cement, Energy & Environment Jan-Mar 2002

up to 3 h of data collection time can now be completed in less than 2 min. Furthermore, this technology permits a simple and maintenance-free design without sacrificing the excellent resolution offered by traditional powder diffraction geometry. Courtesy: World CemeJll, Dec. 2001, Pp 90-96,Enquiry no. 21 E-mail: mail@worldcement.com Web: www.worldcement.com FINER THAN FINE ].M. Marechal e t al, Broyeurs PoittemiJJ, France Fineness currently requested are really reduced to guarantee the most complete combustion. Plants are equipped with preheater towers, either with or without a hot point, have lower air temperatures than kilns, and require a faster combust_ion in the flame. If this is the case, then the lack of volatile material needs to be compensated by £inner grinding. These are the reasons why Poittemill have studied modifications to pendulummills, and particularly for hard petcoke. This article explains the different upgrades that can be made. An increase of the grinding surface, the speed and the number of roller mills are the major modifications that have been made to meet these requirements. For difficult products with HGI (Hard Grove Index) < 40, it is sugges ted to raise the frequency of passage by increasing the grinding surfaces or the number of rollers. Courtesy: World Cemen t, fan. 2002, Pp 83-SS,Enquiry no: 16 E-mail: mail@worldcement.com Web: www.worldcement.com HOW TO CHOOSE A COMFETENT QUALITY MANAGEMENT CONSULTANT ISO technical committee ISO/ TC 176, which is responsible for the ISO 9000 standards, 30 has launched the development of a technical specification, ISO/ TS 21095, Guidelines for the selection and utilization of quality management system consultants, which is expected to be completed in the first half of 2002. This ar ticle exp lains why it is so important for both organization and consultant that such guidelines should exist. The guidelines being developed by ISO are therefore intended to provide entrepreneurs and managers with the criteria necessary to make an effective choice. Competent consultant should be communicative, versatile, practical and perceptive and should have detailed knowledge of relevant standards, certification processes and skills in general quality management methodologies and techniques. The consultant should have relevant experience in managerial, professional or technical situations involved in the exercise of judgement, problem solving and communication with other people at all levels. As far as the ethical considerations are concerned, the guidelines highlight the importance of avoiding the creation of dependency on the services of the quality management system consultant - which would limit the future autonomous development of the organization's quality management system. The guidelines repea tedly emphasize that organizations should be aware that quality management systems are cost effective arid do not generate excessive bureaucracy. They should, however be suitable to meet the organization's overall obj ectives and the needs of the organization, its customers and other interested parties. ISO/TS 21095 does not aim to be prescriptive, some guidelines are presented as Annex, in