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Series IV. Steel Production and Plant Operations, 1935-1981
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Scope and Content Notes: This series contains items relating to the efficient and safe production of steel at the Homestead Works. Specific topics include basic and integral operations of the steel mill and the planning associated with maintaining high levels of production in the steel industry. Records in this series describe the production of various products including steel sheets, bearings, and beams and their sale. Also included is material relating to employee training and safety; items illustrating the effect of strikes on mill production; and the transfer of responsibility for effective mill operations from the accounting department to a specialized production-planning department in the 1950s.
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Subseries 1. Production -- General
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"Bibliography of Sheet and Strip Mills for Committee on Construction," Homestead Works, 1935
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"Open Hearth Division: Man Turns per Week at Various Levels of Shop Activity," 1949
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Open Hearth Miscellaneous, 1949-1962
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"Product Facilities and Services, Johnstown Works, Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corporation," January 1950
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Management Roster, U.S. Steel Operation Department, 1951
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"Production Planning Building, Air Raid Alert Procedure," 1955
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Miscellaneous Papers of the Chief Metallurgist
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Production and Shipping Figures, 1964-1975
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Miscellaneous Production Statistics, 1898-1982
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Structural Shorts, 1975-1976
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Rough Draft, "Development of Process Sequence Operations Planning and Control Standard Practice," ca 1979
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Box 5
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Production Planning Department Papers
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Sales Orders, Mills, 1964 and 1966
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Reports on Rolls and Bearings Mills, 1958
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Forge Rolls Information, ca. 1970
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"Study Relating to the Break-up Roll Breakage at 160" Plate Mill Homestead District Works," 1961
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160" Mill "Hot Rolled to Finish Yield" meetings, 1980-1981
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160" Mill production statistics, 1978-1980
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160"/45" Mill Miscellaneous
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Drafting Practices on 100" Mill, 1958
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100" Mill Miscellaneous, 1948-1972
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Plate Mill Miscellaneous
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Evaluation of Contoured Insulation Hot Top for 36" x 52" Beam Shape Mold (photographs included), August 20, 1952
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Subseries 2. Training
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"Open Hearth First Helper Training Program" for U.S. Steel Duquesne Works, October 12, 1951
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"Furnace Operators manual" for Open Hearth at Edgar Thomson Works
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"Open Hearth Operating Experiences for Operating and Technical Trainees"
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"Open Hearth #5 First helper Orientation program," Homestead Works, 1959
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"First Helper's Manual," Open Hearth #5, Homestead Works, 1974
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Subseries 3. Accounting
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Report on "Proposed Transfer of Production Planning Responsibilities from the Accounting Department Mill Clerical Units to the Production Planning Department," Homestead Works, February 6, 1953
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Material Related to Proposed Transfer to Production Planning Responsibilities from the Accounting Department, 1952-1960
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Subseries 4. Safety
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Safety Supervisors Conference, 1955
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Miscellaneous Safety Materials, 1957-1982
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Accident Report, 1985
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Emergency Operations Alerting Procedure
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Subseries 5. Strikes -- Production Shutdown and Startup
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Temporary Shutdown of Open Hearth #2, August 1945
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Start-up data for Open Hearth #2, 1946
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Four Day Open Hearth Division Operation Plan, 1949
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Shutdown data, 1959
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Open Hearth vacation analysis, 1947-1948
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Employee Reallocation during Open Hearth #2 Shutdown, July 3, 1949
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Employee Reallocation during Open Hearth #3 Shutdown, July 3, 1949
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Employee Reallocation during Open Hearth #4 Shutdown, July 3, 1949
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Employee Reallocation during Open Hearth #5 Shutdown, July 3, 1949
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Shutdown Preparation for Strike, 1959
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Startup Operations for Strike, 1959
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Miscellaneous, 1959
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