Mark P. Taylor, John J. J. Chen, Brent Richmond Young
An uncomfortable observation in the Shift Logs and Process Control records of most aluminum smelting plants is that process control failures, large and small, happen every day. Although only a small fraction of these failures give rise to catastrophic events, the difference between a disaster we read about and a failure which, although expensive, has no irreversible consequences, is only chance.
Control for Aluminum Production and Other Processing Industries exemplifies new control thinking fused with an understanding of process variability, and how to diagnose abnormalities...
An uncomfortable observation in the Shift Logs and Process Control records of most aluminum smelting plants is that process control failures, large...
