Increasing Cast House Throughput through “In-Spec First Time”

Guillaume Girard; Michael Bishop; Philip Austen; Liz Swain

doi:10.4028/www.scientific.net/MSF.693.141

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Increasing Cast House Throughput through “In-Spec First Time”

Abstract:

Achieving in-specification melt analysis first time has been the Holy Grail of many cast houses for a number of years and for a good reason. For many producers, the furnaces are the bottleneck of the value added casting process and removing that hurdle means big dollars. A six sigma project was carried out at the Bell Bay smelter aimed at reducing the time it takes to bring a furnace within chemical specification and highlighted that “in-spec first time” is more achievable than many think. This paper covers the steps having an impact on alloy recovery and suggests a “best practice” to be followed in each area. As is shown, consistently following these guidelines through robust controls can generate a significant increase in throughput of value add facilities in your cast house.

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Materials Science Forum (Volume 693)

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141-148

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July 2011

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Guillaume Girard, Michael Bishop, Philip Austen, Liz Swain

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Alloying, Diffusion, Dissolution, Recovery, Scheduling, Tablet

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