Billet vs. Rod Sourcing: How Upstream Steelmaking Choices Ripple Into Drawing Line Downtime

Billet vs. Rod Sourcing How Upstream Steelmaking Choices Ripple Into Drawing Line Downtime

A drawing line that keeps stopping for reasons nobody can quite pin down is one of the more frustrating problems a wire factory can run into. The maintenance team checks the dies, finds nothing unusual. The operators check the lubrication system, and that looks fine too. Everyone eventually settles on some version of "the line...