When any of the equipment breaks down or wears out, the company's in-house machine shop and repair facility in East Chicago, IN, refurbishes the parts or builds new ones.
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Others may be for a variety of parts for an assembly. At the other extreme, a single order may involve a 45-ton VSB housing for a steel mill measuring 30' x 12' x 14'. The more rapidly that parts and pieces of equipment pass through the shops, the more efficiently Inland's steel-making operations are able to run. Without Costimator, we'd have a hard time keeping our heads above water. The system is installed on the Supply Process Organization's Pentium II 350 MHz W98 and Pentium III 500 MHz W2K computers and is linked with the Ispat Inland SQL Server client server.