Tonkawa lowers raw material costs with charge calculator.Metalcasters can make several adjustments to their operations to reduce their costs, from making their energy use more efficient, to reducing labor costs by automating. Reducing the cost of raw materials, which amounts to a majority of casting cost, also can make a significant difference to the bottom line. Tonkawa Foundry Inc., Tonkawa, Okla., a 30-employee, nobake and coldbox iron shop, found a way to save hundreds on a single heat using the Least Cost Charge Calculation program from MWK MWK In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the Malawi Kwacha. Notes: The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion. Software. The calculator calculator or calculating machine, device for performing numerical computations; it may be mechanical, electromechanical, or electronic. The electronic computer is also a calculator but performs other functions as well. uses linear programming to determine the least expensive recipe to charge a furnace furnace, enclosed space for the burning of fuel. There are many kinds of furnaces, the type depending upon the fuel and the use to which the heat produced within it is put. Most familiar are the furnaces used in the heating of buildings. to a given chemistry. It considers the cost, chemistry and availability of a metalcaster's melt stocks in the calculations, which can be tailored to reflect melt losses from contamination, paint, oil and rust, as well as element by element losses while melting. For Tonkawa, which uses a pair of 2,000-lb. furnaces to heat between six and 10 batches per shift, the software paid for itself in a couple of heats. "What took me half a day now takes 10-15 minutes with this program," said Jim Salisbury, COO and co-owner of Tonkawa Foundry. The software program includes four main parts: final additions, least cost charge calculations, melt stock casting and calculating campaigns of charges. Salisbury makes the most use out of the heart of the program, the Least Cost Charge Calculation, which allows users to select as many melt stocks as needed as needed prn. See prn order. to find the least expensive charge recipe. The program calculates lower cost charges than its human counterpart because it is able to consider more details, chemistries, costs and availabilities. If Salisbury needs to purchase stainless steel stainless steel: see steel. stainless steel Any of a family of alloy steels usually containing 10–30% chromium. The presence of chromium, together with low carbon content, gives remarkable resistance to corrosion and heat. , his supplier will send him a list of different stainless steel alloys with their prices. Salisbury can then input the information into the Least Cost Charge Calculation program to determine what the most cost-effective scrap will be. Tonkawa also makes use of the ability of the software to integrate with spectrometer spectrometer Device for detecting and analyzing wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation, commonly used for molecular spectroscopy; more broadly, any of various instruments in which an emission (as of electromagnetic radiation or particles) is spread out according to some software. This allows Salisbury to quickly adjust the chemistry and cost calculations if he needs to change a charge. "I'm able to recalculate re·cal·cu·late tr.v. re·cal·cu·lat·ed, re·cal·cu·lat·ing, re·cal·cu·lates To calculate again, especially in order to eliminate errors or to incorporate additional factors or data. my charges in a snap," Salisbury said. Visit www.mwksoftware.com for more information. 
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