Radical Improvement in Aluminum Sheet Production

[roberth]

This caught my eye, I really like capitalism.

http://thesilicongraybeard.blogspot.com/2015/01/techy-tuesday-radical-improvement-in.html


Aluminum giant Alcoa has announced a new way of producing aluminum sheet, called a Micromill (http://www.alcoa.com/global/en/innovation/alcoa_micromill.asp). The eye opener is that they claim that the process time from when they melt the alloy constituents until the sheet is done has been reduced from 20 days to 20 minutes (http://www.designnews.com/author.asp?section_id=1392&doc_id=275981&itc=dn_analysis_element&cid=nl.dn14.20141217&dfpPParams=ind_183,industry_auto,industry_machiner y,kw_23,bid_27,aid_275981&dfpLayout=blog&dfpPParams=ind_183,industry_auto,industry_machiner y,kw_23,bid_27,aid_275981&dfpLayout=blog).

If the government did it it would go from 20 days to 20 months.

[Gman]

If the government did it it would go from 20 days to 20 months.
...and nobody would be able to afford the cost.


Sent from my electronic leash.

[MarkCO]

Very cool, no pun intended.