Rio Tinto Aluminium Smelting
Lean in Smelting

Rio Tinto Aluminium, now part of Rio Tinto Alcan, published the following report at the International Mine Management Conference in October 2006, detailing their own findings on the impact Lean had in smelting and mining.

As in all projects, LMR helped to tailor the Lean Production System to suit Rio tinto Aluminium's environment in order to sustain the gains made in quality and efficiency.


- RTA Smelting (a 2.7Mb pdf to download)