Focus group interviews were conducted at a large steel manufacturing company with 1000 employees, in order to answer the research question: what is the safety culture and risk-taking like at the company, according to employees? Ten focus groups were used for data collection consisting of 6-8 employees each. The participants were operators from production. The interviews lasted 75 min and were d...

In a time when modern production has become exposed to strict market demands, in terms of increasing quality, shortening the processing time and reducing the cost of the final product, laser processing has become a necessity in almost all manufacturing industries. Each laser manufacturer, including the Swiss company Bystronic, gives recommended cutting parameters for certain types of materials....

By: John R. Lanahan Inland Steel Company is the fifth largest steel company in North America and is the largest .producer of steel at one plant. More than 6,000,000 tons/year can be shipped, of which about 60% are flat rolled, products, inland has a series of subsidiaries in warehousing, metal building, and containers which are also steel users. Total corporate sales are in excess of $2 billion...

The purpose of this study was to identify and assess dust exposure in Electrical Arc Furnaces for steel manufacturing. The major concern of steel making processes is dust generation and accumulation. The scope of this research paper focuses on different ways to improve current controls and make recommendations. In order to achieve the purpose, various goals were developed to identify the extent...

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)...

American Petroleum Institute (API) specifications for line pipes include several steel grades with wide range of mechanical properties and chemical composition. Almost all, large diameter pipes produced in the Kingdom conform to these specifications and the present demand of this market segment reaches to about 300,000 tons annually. Until recently, all material used in the Kingdom under these ...

Global competition forces enterprises to concentrate on their core competencies while transforming themselves to participate in emerging interenterprise formations following the virtual enterprise (VE) paradigm. VE is a form that offers high flexibility, agility and resilience for enterprises to survive and prosper in the globalized economy. This paper introduces the real world VE that uses age...

This study aims to identify factors that result in employees’ absenteeism in an organization, which may help the company manager to develope and identify attitudes of employees for minimising absenteeism. Data was collected from 100 steel manufacturing firm organizations adopting random or chance sampling method. The data was subjected to simple percentage analysis, for demographic variables an...