A proportionate mortality ratio (PMR) study was conducted using data on workers from three local unions representing an integrated automobile factory composed of forge, foundry, and engine (machine and assembly) plants. Ninety four percent of the death certificates were obtained for all active and non-active workers who died during the period 1 January 1970 to 31 December 1979 and were vested i...

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Manganese (Mn) using as raw material for melting process in ferrous foundry and it is considered as a hazardous neurotoxic substance. The furnace-men and melting department workers are potentially exposed to manganese particles or fume in the workplace which accumulates in their central nervous system and neurological disorder observed for exposed workers. The objective of the research was to i...

facilities. This paper shows a new approach to allocate the short-term capacities of tools for tool groups. A virtual unit, tool group, is used to represent the group of tools in semiconductor foundry. Hence, a tool may belong to several tool groups because it may be handle several kinds of recipes. The coupling relation between the tools and the tool groups is a complex many-to-many relation. ...

This paper applies a two-phase methodology to cluster 366 records of the wire bond machines for a Taiwanese IC packaging foundry, where six attributes of each machine are chosen to cluster. The purpose of clustering in this paper is to help the foundry more effectively assign a family of machines to orders that appear in various forms such as emergent or quality-demanding and are highly dynamic...

Inductively coupled plasma-optical emission spectroscopy (ICP-OES) was used to determine the bulk metal elemental composition of 62 modern bronze sculptures cast in Paris in the first half of the twentieth century from the collections of The Art Institute of Chicago and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. As a result, a comprehensive survey of the alloy composition of the sculptures of many promine...

A study of the health of 78 workers in an iron and steel foundry in Vancouver, British Columbia, was carried out and the results compared with those found in 372 railway repair yard workers who were not significantly exposed to air contaminants at work. The foundry workers were exposed to PepSet, which consists of diphenyl methane diisocyanate (MDI) and phenol formaldehyde and their decompositi...

D. Wilk-Kołodziejczyk, S. Kluska-Nawarecka, The Foundry Research Institute, A. Opaliński, E. Nawarecki, AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland The amount of information contained in the WEB grows in a galloping way, which is caused by the spread of Internet access and lowering the cost of storing and sharing data across the network. The vast amount of data, impossible to be an...