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3 p /an

English translation: 3 shifts/year

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French term or phrase:	3 p /an
English translation:	3 shifts/year
Entered by:	Tom Bishop

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17:39 Apr 28, 2004

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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.

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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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Thanks a lot!
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3 shifts per year on the presses

Tom Bishop

3 par an

Graham macLachlan

(see comment)

Oliver Walter

COMMENT

Tony M

Discussion entries: 1

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1 hr confidence:

3 par an

Explanation:
gain is threefold per year of press (press year)
annual gain is tripled per press

Graham macLachlan
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2 hrs confidence:

COMMENT

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
France
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4 hrs confidence:

(see comment)

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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5 hrs confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

3 shifts per year on the presses

Tom Bishop
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Thanks a lot!

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