New Online Course - Casting Machine Breakout Prevention - Increasing Productivity and Reducing Costs
ONLINE COURSE - CASTING MACHINE BREAKOUT PREVENTION - INCREASING PRODUCTIVITY AND REDUCING COSTS
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The Materials Processing Institute has launched the latest course in its series of online training courses which can be accessed instantly and are available to complete at any time and on demand.
COURSE DESCRIPTION
Casting Machine breakouts are one of the major events on any Steel plant because of the costs involved and the potential savings in many areas. As many of these breakout events are either not examined in detail, or not fully understood, then the principal contributing factors and root causes are not clearly defined and the event reoccurs. This can incur significant costs through loss of productivity and yield, machine damage, subsequent deterioration of quality and delaying customer orders.
This course looks at many of the principal types of casting machine breakouts and details a standardised methodology that can be applied to any breakout event to arrive at a root cause and reduce these costs. For each type of breakout the causes and preventative actions are defined. Applying the learning will allow a clearer understanding of the reasons for a particular event to put into place lasting solutions. This will reduce the annual breakout rate with a significant impact on reducing costs and improving productivity. A reduction of one breakout has the potential to save in excess of £100,000.
WHAT THE COURSE COVERS
Detailed methodology for assessing breakouts
Principle types and categories of casting machine breakouts
Reasons and causes of the main types of breakouts
Preventative measures to reduce breakout rates
The course comprises of 3 modules.
Module 1: BREAKOUT ASSESSMENT METHODOLOGY AND ENTRAPPED NON METALLIC BREAKOUTS
Module 2: STICKER AND STARTER TYPE BREAKOUTST
Module 3: “OFF CORNER”, “ARRESTED TEEM” AND MISCELLANEOUS TYPE BREAKOUTS
LEARNING OUTCOMES
An understanding of a methodology which can be applied to all breakout assessments
Understanding of how this methodology can identify the type of breakout and the principle causes for its occurrence
An understanding of how to define and recommend preventative actions to avoid a reoccurrence thereby reducing breakout rates and plant costs significantly
WHO SHOULD ACCESS THE COURSE?
Because of the significant impact of this topic on everyday Steelmaking this course will benefit a wide range of disciplines from trainees/graduates through to management in technical, production and engineering areas.
COURSE DURATION
3 x 40 minute modules
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