During the late 1970s and early 1980s the United States received a rude awakening on the importance of quality. Foreign competition, particularly from the Japanese, resulted in the loss of significant market share for many American companies. For example, in 1980, Detroit's share of the U.S. auto market was 71.3 percent; by 1991 it declined to 62.5 percent. Japan now supplies over onethird of t...

30 Stainlßss Steßl Focus 01/2016 Acciaierie Valbruna has come a very long way since its founding in 1925 as a small company specialising in forged equipment for use in agriculture, and after experiencing total devastation from allied bombing during the second world war. Following a rebuild and enlargement of the company’s works in the immediate postwar period, at the end of the 1950s there was ...

Introduction: Safety climate received substantial attention due to its potential for explaining variation in safety-related outcomes. The present study examined degree of safety climate related to fatalism and perceived helplessness among workers’ Isfahan Steel Company. Materials and Methods: The current study was a correlation study. Sample consisting of 189 employees in Isfahan Steel Compan...

This paper presents an experimental comparative study of iron losses obtained by means of the Epstein frame, Ring Core and dynamometer tests with non-oriented electrical steel samples. The comparisons are qualitative and they are intended to show the importance of carrying out other tests to evaluate electrical steels in addition to the standard Epstein frame method. In industry, complex or cos...

This paper describes the mitigation of shaped charge penetration of steel armour by the use of spaced metallic and composite plates. The target consisted of one or more steel plates of 10mm thickness some of which were backed by 25mm E-glass polyester composite panels at various additional spacings from the rearmost steel plate. A 32mm diameter shaped charge warhead was detonated at a standoff ...

usd7 is one of the steel products of isfahan steel company. it is cast in continuous casting moulds and rolled up to a rod of 5 mm diameter. finally, it is wire drawn up to 3 mm and used as welding electrodes. this steel contains 0.05 to 0.09 wt. % carbon. the acceptable limit of the aluminium in this class of steel is less than 0.003 wt%. therefore, it is categorized as rimmed steel. during fo...

This article reports a field study of a shift roster change in a large steel producer. The changes in the roster are threefold: (1) from backward rotating to forward rotating; (2) from rather slow (three) to fast rotating (two consecutive shifts); (3) the number of days off after the night shifts was changed from two to three. Company data cover 1 year before and 1 year after the implementation...

This paper presents a case study which confirmed that the use of APJ for proper assessment of human error in the Electric Power Company of Serbia (hereinafter EPS). The proposal methodological framework was used for human error identification and quantification in the case of a repair intervention on a steel lattice tower 10/0.4 kV (jurisdiction of an EPS subsidiary ED "Jugoistok", Nis, Serbia)...