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Focuses on the concept of engineering-to-order (ETO). Emphasis of ETO on manufacturing; Focus of engineers on order-related tasks; Responsibility of engineers for quality assurance and regulatory compliance.

In the late 1980s, BNFL decided to enter the mixed oxide (MOX) fuel fabrication business to support our reprocessing business to and return the plutonium product to our customers in the usable forro of MOX fuel. The first phase of the strategy was to gain some irradiation experience for MOX produced by our own Short Binderless Route (SBR) process. To achieve this, the MOX Demonstration Facility (MDF) was built at Sellafiel, and 28 MOX fuel assemblies were produced up to 1998 that were loaded into PWRs in Europe. In 1994, BNFL started the construction of their large-scale MOX production plant, simulator modiciation package (SMP). The design and construction of the plant and supporting facilities were completed some years ago, and the commissioning of the plant with uranium commenced in June 1999. In October 2001, the United Kingdom government announced that the manufacture of MOX fuel in SMP was justified. On December 19, 2001, the U.K. regulators gave BNFL their approval to start plutonium operations. This paper considers the status of BNFL's MOX project today and the progress that we have taken towards achieving our business objectives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on the quality assurance mark launched by the Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB), a charity in Great Britain, which will determine products that are easy to use for blind and partially sighted people. Meanwhile, senior independent prescribing (IP) optometrist Peter Frampton will present the "Mr Imbert, Mr Fick and Mr Goldmann: Has anyone actually seen the original papers what do they actually tell us?" lecture at the College of Optometrists on March 25, 2015.

This section offers news briefs from the American Hospital Association (AHA) as of May 2014, including the "Appropriate Use of Medical Resources" white paper by the AHA, the AHA's Center for Healthcare Governance's monograph on the role of philanthropy in the hospital's mission, and the forum "Symposium for Leaders in Healthcare Quality" launched by the AHA.

More than 200 nurses [ from Central Manchester I University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust pledged to do 'one small thing' to improve care -- then wrote their promise on paper hearts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reports on an a supply chain transformation which was begun at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center in 2007 and features the use of an Amazon.com supply procurement system which replaced the center's paper based supply process. A discussion of a 2012 Association for Healthcare Resource & Materials Management's Award for Healthcare Supply Chain Innovation which the center received for its supply chain transformation and other initiatives is presented.