Glossary
The vocabulary of forging material control
What each term means, and where it shows up on a shop floor. Written to be useful whether or not you use our software.
- Country of Melt and Pour
- Where raw steel was first melted and poured into its first solid shape, why US importers must report it, and what that means for a forging shop's records.
- EN 10204 Inspection Documents
- The four types of inspection document defined by EN 10204:2004 — 2.1, 2.2, 3.1 and 3.2 — and what distinguishes specific from non-specific inspection.
- Heat Number
- The identifier a steel mill assigns to one batch of metal poured from a single melt, and the unit material properties are guaranteed against.
- Lot Traceability
- The ability to follow a defined batch of material forward to the parts made from it and backward from a part to the material it came from.
- Mill Test Report
- The certificate a steel mill issues for a heat, recording its chemical composition and mechanical properties, and what a forging shop is expected to do with it.
- Scale Loss
- The metal lost as iron oxide when steel is heated for forging, why it has to be accounted for rather than estimated, and how it differs from cut and burning loss.
- Work in Process
- Material that has entered production but is not yet a finished part, and why forging shops have to account for it stage by stage.
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