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Control for Aluminum Production and Other Processing Industries
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Control for Aluminum Production and Other Processing Industries

by Mark P. Taylor, John J. Chen, Brent Richmond Young
October 2013
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
252 pages
8h 17m
English
CRC Press
Content preview from Control for Aluminum Production and Other Processing Industries
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Accelerating Removal of Variation
Rob drove along the straight and thought about the day. He had calculated
what dropping one person per crew would do, plus cancelling his gradu-
ate engineers program as well as reducing two maintenance staff. The
result was about a $350,000 reduction in cost per month out of his budget
of $44million per month. The problem was that wasn’t anywhere near
enough.
Out of the $44 million potroom costs, $27 million was electricity and
$8 million was carbon. Another $3 million was maintenance materials—
essentials for pot reconstruction and for the production machinery. There
was the problem in a nutshell. There ...
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ISBN: 9781466514690