Datasets:
srobertsphd
/
mit-labnetwork

Dataset card Data Studio Files
xet
Community
1
text
stringlengths
1
2.97k
>>> Quantum City, University of Calgary
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> labnetwork mailing list
>>> labnetwork at mtl.mit.edu
>>>
>>> https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://mtl.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo.cgi/labnetwork__;!!IBzWLUs!UCW6Y2zFatcpANSkj2tMiD--uRnMKLp4zzAWrXFnXCQRdMbfJfc-MVxRmx4x-AtNiwikOZmYBlh3ED-FiZqS2bFq6sfP5A$
>>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> labnetwork mailing list
>> labnetwork at mtl.mit.edu
>> https://mtl.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo.cgi/labnetwork
>> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://mtl.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo.cgi/labnetwork__;!!IBzWLUs!QRmim7I9ABKBcPWXWflE9vFzJaHTivd-hnjsBPi3JWcvu1RrtBnYPr2oRQesXwa9ip0HhQ05z2dsuAjLpq0T$>
>>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://mtl.mit.edu/pipermail/labnetwork/attachments/20230323/a8ebca95/attachment.html>
From tatiana.pinedo at monash.edu Thu Mar 23 22:09:52 2023
From: tatiana.pinedo at monash.edu (Tatiana Pinedo Rivera)
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2023 13:09:52 +1100
Subject: [labnetwork] Is your facility ISO certified?
In-Reply-To: <QB1PR01MB30254D835B49332A3048CEDE9F879@QB1PR01MB3025.CANPRD01.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM>
References: <YT1PR01MB871557F65CD3FA67EB432C068E869@YT1PR01MB8715.CANPRD01.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM>
<BL0PR07MB40504AD4575368D4F24A9861DF869@BL0PR07MB4050.namprd07.prod.outlook.com>
<QB1PR01MB30254D835B49332A3048CEDE9F879@QB1PR01MB3025.CANPRD01.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM>
Message-ID: <CABQu3YZUgKZ-aY+UBR7xtNGsBZ-ecmDCwSgymPtA=k5o8RzK7A@mail.gmail.com>
Hi Jo and all,
Tatiana Pinedo Rivera from the MCN here (Melbourne, Australia). I am a Team
Lead and a Senior Process Engineer. The Melbourne Centre for
Nanofabrication has been ISO9001 certified for at least roughly 8 years (It
might be more, I am not sure when we started), we also follow the LEAN Six
Sigma methodology and we are not a manufacturing company per say:
In fact, we are an open access nanofab facility, co-funded by the
Australian federal government and the 7 Universities of our State
(Victoria) and the CSIRO. The bulk of our users are academic users
(researchers and their PhD students and postdocs), we train them on our
tools and they do their nanofabrication and research work here but we also
do a substantial amount of fee for service and we also have quite a few
industry clients some of which have their residency in our facility in the
early stages of their startup project.
We have a special affiliation with Monash University as our facility is
technically on Monash campus. Monash University has other Research
Platforms somewhat similar to how we function (such as Monash Micro Imaging
platform, Monash X-Ray Platform, Additive Manufacturing platform etc.) and
they are all ISO9001 as well (more recently than us, I believe).
We at MCN see a lot of benefits from having implemented ISO Platform
Quality Management Systems altogether with LEAN methodology and we do not
think that ISO is only for manufacturing companies. ISO and LEAN is helping
us make sure that we are performing better (more efficiently), continuously
attempting to improve how we do things (safety, trainings, nanofab
processes, tool maintenance, back of the house aspects such as
inventorying of our chemicals and consumables). It helps setting high
quality standards and standardise the processes that can be standardised
(such as our trainings (SOPs, training assessment sheets) and tool
maintenance (Total preventive maintenance schedules and SOPs)). It helps us
keep the cleanroom tidy and things running (we have 5S systems to make sure
everything has a place and we use Kanbans to track our stock of consumables
and chemicals so that we never run out of anything and a the same time we
do not end up buying a surplus of items that we do not need, which helps us
with our sustainability goals too). It makes us more efficient and
consistent, it helps us take better care of the instruments and limit tool
downtime. Ultimately, we have standardised processes and we limit waste of
time, resources and money. Of course it is also a big image aspect
particularly with Industry Clients but academic "clients" also appreciate
the professionalism which translates into better "customer service" too. I
know that one common misconception is that having a quality management
system in place might be too rigid for research and hinder innovation and
creativity, but we do not find this to be true at all.
I am not aware of the specifics of how we started our ISO9001 and LEAN
journey as this happened before I joined MCN. I think we had at that time a
Director that came up with this initiative and made it happen. From what I
have heard, it did require a substantial amount of energy at the beginning
but after a while it runs pretty much (almost) on wheels and we would not
do things otherwise now. Our Engineering and Quality Manager and our
General Manager and Facility Manager help maintain our certifications
up-to-date. They all know far more than me about all the technical aspects
of the certifications we have and how we maintain them. If you would like
me to put you in contact with them, I'll be happy to (Bernie might be
reading us :) as he is on this mailing list)
I hope this is useful.
Tatiana
*Tatiana Pinedo Rivera, PhD* (she/her/hers)
Nanolithography and Characterisation Team Leader
Senior Process Engineer
Melbourne Centre for Nanofabrication
ANFF Victoria
151 Wellington Road, Clayton VIC 3168 Australia
P: +61 (0)3 9905 9660
E: tatiana.pinedo at nanomelbourne.com
W: http://nanomelbourne.com
On Fri, 24 Mar 2023 at 07:24, Howard Northfield <
Howard.Northfield at uottawa.ca> wrote:
>
> I was a test ISO auditor at the past Nortel (telecommunications company)
> during a big push for ISO 9001 certification in the late 1990s, purely to
> be able to market in Europe.
>
> ISO really only demands a trail of record of internal process, it does not
> define process details or quality levels.
>