Success of Argentinean Liners Production, for the Pierre Auger Observatory, using ISO 9001:2000

A. DE GRANDE, N. SMETNIANSKY-DE GRANDE, B. GARCÍA AND A. ETCHEGOYEN; GARCIA, B

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Lugar: Berna-Suiza; Año: 2005 p. 1 - 4

Liners are cylindrical bags of 3.60 m in diameter and 1.20 m height. They are made of Tyvek® (Tyvek is a DuPont Trade Mark) fibrous polyolefin sheets laminated with black low-density polyethylene films. Liners must be completely opaque in order to both prevent any small amounts of light from entering the tank, and any contamination from entering the water volume, for a period of approximately 20 years. The liners project includes: the building construction, with adequate infrastructure and equipment, the manufacture and testing of liners and their delivery and transport to the Observatory in Malargüe. All these processes must comply with the technical and Quality Assurance (QA) requirements established by the Auger Project. The implementation and maintenance of a management system fulfilling the ISO 9001:2000 standard has proved to be an astonishingly useful tool to guide the production of our liners plant.