French: 3 p /anEnglish translation: 3 shifts/year 
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Tech/Engineering - Engineering (general) | | French term or phrase: 3 p /an | | La MEO identifiée pour soufflures s'élève à plus de 130 t par an sur les 2 presses. Les causes des soufflures sont diverses, et on estime la partie liée au graissage à 50%. L'objectif est de gagner 75% de cette MEO par cette action, soit 50 t. Le gain est donc de 3 p /an de presse, et la refusion de cette MEO, soit 3p*1,8 kE+50 t * 0,250 kE/t, soit 18 kE/an. |
| | Clarification request(s) and responsePaula Price (asker): 9:05pm Apr 28, 2004: ????? - I think it is some sort of marking system for marking trimmings at the end of a press to avoid saw trimming errors.
But I have little to go on....
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| | 3 shifts per year on the presses | Explanation:
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Note added at 5 hrs 55 mins (2004-04-28 23:34:58 GMT)
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or, expressed more succinctly:
3 press shifts per year
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Note added at 6 hrs 5 mins (2004-04-28 23:44:23 GMT)
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If they reduce production scrap by 50 tonnes per year, they will save 3 shifts (postes) per year on labour plus the cost of remelting the production scrap.
kE are kilo-euros or thousands of euros.
The sums are as follows:
3 shifts x 1800 euros/shift = 5400 euros
50 tonnes x 250 euros/tonne = 12500 euros
Total saving: 17900 euros
which, rounded, is the 18kE per year that they say they will save.
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Tom Bishop
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Explanation:
It certainly SEEMS to be a dimensionless numeric value, but I'm blessed if I can even guess at what the 'p' might be being used to stand for! 3 'somethings' per press/year. I'm just as mystifed as I was before...
|  Tony M
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Explanation:
The "equation" at the end of the extract, implies that p is equivalent to 3.055555 (since 3p*1.8 kE+50 t * 0.250 kE/t is 18 kE; therefore 3p*1.8 kE is 18 - 12.5, or 5.5).
Apart from that I've no idea. Ask the client.
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Sorry, that should be 3p = 3.055555, so p = 1.0185185 (still not very helpful!)
| Oliver Walter
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| 3 shifts per year on the presses
Explanation:
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Note added at 5 hrs 55 mins (2004-04-28 23:34:58 GMT)
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or, expressed more succinctly:
3 press shifts per year
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Note added at 6 hrs 5 mins (2004-04-28 23:44:23 GMT)
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If they reduce production scrap by 50 tonnes per year, they will save 3 shifts (postes) per year on labour plus the cost of remelting the production scrap.
kE are kilo-euros or thousands of euros.
The sums are as follows:
3 shifts x 1800 euros/shift = 5400 euros
50 tonnes x 250 euros/tonne = 12500 euros
Total saving: 17900 euros
which, rounded, is the 18kE per year that they say they will save.
| Tom Bishop
United Kingdom
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Native speaker of:  English
PRO pts in category: 33
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