The steel industry is one of the first industries where operational research was successfully applied. The objective of the present paper is to summarize such applications high-lighting benefits and difficulties involved in the studios and in their subsequent implementation. The paper is divided into three sections. The first section contains a brief survey of the reported ease studies in literature pertaining to the application of O.R. techniques and methodology in production problems in the stool industry. The second section deals with a few case studies which illustrate the model building procedures and their usefulness in real life. The final section of the paper is devoted to a discussion of the potential areas where O.K. techniques and. methodology can be fruitfully applied in modeling production processes for control purposes.
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