We cut our ladle changeovers from 18 to 14 minutes on Line 2 by staging pre-heated gear and reassigning one floater; goal is 12 without burning people out. Anyone running a two-strand caster — how are you structuring crew roles at shift change to keep safety tight while trimming those last minutes?
Reached 12 using a 5‑min ‘shadow’ — incoming trails crane op; safety runs T‑2. @OP, does your floater handle radio callouts?
We got from 14 to about 12:20 by having the incoming nozzle tech own the pin/plug swap while the outgoing finishes the last pour, then a 90‑sec “line‑clear” run by safety with radios silent except safety — chatter drives me nuts. If you’re already staging pre‑heated gear, pre‑set bail height with a dummy ring during the last heat; that saved us about a minute on a two‑strand. @rachel_lee87 do you lock the crane to a single sweep across both strands at changeover or zig‑zag?