Steel Production Methods Improvement Study

We present a three-phase, interdisciplinary study undertaken to improve methods of steel production within timing and capital investment constraints. The defined objective of this study was to increase the throughput of the hydrogen annealing process via assessment of various operating policies and resource levels. The three phases of the study successively involved work measurement project management, and discrete process simulation.

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