Much of the work at the Cut-Anything Company involves cutting and forming of flat sheets of\nfiber-glass for the pleasure boat industry. Manual methods
Much of the work at the Cut-Anything Company involves cutting and forming of flat sheets of
\r\nfiber-glass for the pleasure boat industry. Manual methods based on portable saws are currently
\r\nused to perform the cutting operation, but production is slow and scrap rates are high. The foreman
\r\nsays the company should invest in a plasma arc cutting machine, but the plant manager thinks it
\r\nwould be too expensive. What do you think? Justify your answer by indicating the characteristics of
\r\nthe process that make PAC attractive or unattractive in this application.