Tube City acquires software co.Tube City LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control , Glassport, Pa., has acquired Scrap OptiMiser Associates, developer of the Scrap OptiMiser ferrous ferrous (fĕr`əs), iron in the +2 valence state. Containing or having to do with iron. The difference between ferrous and ferric is the number of valence electrons they contain (ferrous contains two and ferric contains three), which scrap computer-purchasing model. Tube City Chairman and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. I. Michael Coslov says the OptiMiser purchase closes the loop in Tube City's scrap management program for steel mills and foundries. Tube City has licensed the OptiMiser computer model for the past nine years. Under terms of the agreement, Scrap OptiMiser owners Bob W. Martin and Roy Whipp are affiliated with Tube City. Martin and Whipp, who market the Scrap OptiMiser out of the Chicago area, developed and introduced the software in 1995. Steel mills use the model to determine what grades of scrap to buy to make scrap charge menus. Tube City has been licensing OptiMiser, an off-line program, to use on the front-end of its on-line, real-time model, GenBlend+, which it has developed during the past five years for use in basic oxygen steelmaking Basic oxygen steelmaking (BOS, BOF, Linz-Donawitz-Verfahren, LD-converter) is a method of steelmaking in which carbon-rich molten iron is made into steel. The process is an improvement over the historically important Bessemer process. furnaces. Chuck Johnsen, director of software engineering for Tube City, says his team, working with Martin and Whipp, can now combine the two programs into one that will ultimately provide an integrated scrap management program for electric arc furnace An electric arc furnace (EAF) is a furnace that heats charged material by means of an electric arc. Arc furnaces range in size from small units of approximately one ton capacity (used in foundries for producing cast iron products) up to about 400 ton units used for secondary (EAF EAF - Effort Adjustment Factor ) operators. Johnsen expects the new EAF model to be ready by the end of this year. The OptiMiser/GenBlend+ combination will integrate the purchase of scrap based on the availability and price of various grades and with that information can create scrap-charging menus to determine real-time scrap charges to produce the lowest cost liquid steel in EAFs. |
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