U.S. Steel and Wheeling-Pittsburgh are using new software supplied by Maxager Technology Inc. to optimize profitability. "It is imperative that we find new ways of increasing profitability in today's market," says Paul Kadlic, executive v.p., sheet products, U.S. Steel. "Maxager helps us shift our product mix toward products with a higher profit per minute so we can make significant improvements in cash flow and overall profitability.""The secret to maximizing the profitable throughput of a steelmaking operation lies in identifying those products that make the greatest profit contribution per hour (or minute) of capacity on the constraining equipment," explains David Jardini, director of Hatch Bed-dows in Pittsburgh. This means taking into account both the margin per ton that is earned on a product and the amount of time required on the bottleneck asset to produce that product.
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