Cost benefit analysis

摘要

Environmental technology has been and will increasingly become a major driver for efficiencies in the metal casting industry. The future is revealing that the environmental factor will increasingly be a major fundamental of foundry management. In addition to researching, investing and adapting new technologies within the foundry, global competition will increase the need to focus on cost savings. This factor not only includes energy savings but also waste streams. Many foundries are creating new waste streams and new methods to treat the wastes to enable them to be more usable. This will be an ongoing challenge. And in this edition of Metals you will find the very important feature on "Green Means Lean" by Daniel Allen. It focuses on foundry management, melting and money.