According to dictionary.com‚ a steel pan is a percussion instrument originating in Trinidad‚ made out of an oil drum with one end beaten down and divided by grooves into sections to give different notes. Though steel pans (steel drums) were created on the Caribbean island of Trinidad in the 1930s‚ the steel pan history can be traced back to the enslaved Africans who were brought to the island during the 1700s. They carried with them elements of their African culture including the playing of hand
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------------------------------------------------- Alloy Steel is a metal alloy whose major component is iron‚ with carbon content between 0.02% and 2.14% by mass. An alloy is a metallic solid solution composed of two or more elements. Complete solid solution alloys give single solid phase microstructure‚ while partial solutions give two or more phases that may or may not be homogeneous in distribution‚ depending on thermal (heat treatment) history. Alloys usually have different properties from those
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the rejection of ornamentation. The Inland Steel Building clearly demonstrated how American architecture had changed during those decades and attested to the influence of both the international style and the work of Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe and their basic principals of design. The Inland Steel Building was the first high-rise in the Chicago Loop after the construction hiatus created by The Great Depression and World War II. The elegant combination of steel and glass were innovative due to the mass
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ore and scrap steel‚ increasing amount of steel imports‚ production technology improvements and economic weakness. Changes in legislation could have severe impacts on the firm’s numerous production facilities and could be costly to become compliant. The fluctuations in both the cost and supply of iron ore and scrap steel directly impact the firm’s profitability because it is difficult to pass those costs on to the customers due to the price-driven level of competition in the steel industry. The rise
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Summer Internship Projects Guidelines for PGDM Students‚ 2013 GENERAL GUIDELINES FOR STUDENTS & FACULTIES • The purpose of Summer Internship Project is to acquaint the students with the rigours of the corporate world and provide a live opportunity to apply skills‚ tools and techniques of management. • The Summer Internship Project (SIP) for students of PGDM is of two months’ duration starting from first week of June. • After the confirmation letter from the Company is obtained
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Mittal Steal in 2006: Changing the Global Steel Game Industry Analysis Although steel was a highly demanded good‚ the industry as a whole was largely unprofitable. One reason for this was that the industry remained highly fragmented in contrast to their suppliers and even some of their buyers‚ who were considerably more consolidated. Aside from the increased competition that fragmentation contributed to‚ it also degraded the steal industry’s bargaining power to raw material suppliers and in some
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OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT ASSIGNMENT ON CHAPARRAL STEEL (ABRIDGED) SUBMITTED TO: PROF. N. NARAYANAN SUBMITTED BY: SECTION D – GROUP 7 MAYANK GUPTA – ABM09027 SHILPA AGARWAL – PGP28177 SONIA RAO – PGP28209 VISHAL DASSANI – PGP28224 TABLE OF CONTENTS SERIAL NUMBER | TOPIC | PAGE NUMBER | 1. | Introduction | 2 | 2. | Product Strategy | 3 | 3. | Manufacturability | 4 | 4. | New Product Opportunities | 4 | 5. | Product Mix | 4 | 6. | Competition | 5 | 7. | Strategic Move
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Questions to consider: 1. How would you characterize Steel Works’ products? What about Steel Works’ customers? 2. What does the coefficient of variation tell us? Can you determine the coefficient of variation for the product lines? 3. How much inventory has Steel Works been holding? How much should they have been holding? SPECIALTY PRODUCTS DIVISION Customer Characteristics Steel Works has a large number of customers for its specialty products - 130 customers for some 120 products. However
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especially for welding of stainless steels‚ aluminum and magnesium. In stainless steel industry‚ TIG welding has an important role on joining thin sheets‚ tubes and pipes. Depending on this important role‚ the mechanical behaviours of TIG welded joints and criteria affecting these behaviours are the main cared subjects in industry to obtain products with less failure and use them for longer service times. Mechanical behaviours of TIG welded joints in stainless steels are also the main subject of the
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Steel and heat treatment MILD STEEL Mild steel is also called plain carbon steel. It is the most common type of steel and it price is pretty low. Its composition is around about 0.05%-0.29% carbon content. Mild steel has a relatively low tensile strength but the surface can be hardened through carburizing. It is mostly used where large amounts of steel needs to be formed eg structural steel MEDIUM CARBON STEEL Medium carbon steel has great wear resistance and is used for forged automotive
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