Referring again to the wire-drawing process, such is the effect produced by the operation that, contrary to what might have been expected, the strength of the wire or steel is greatly increased.

A flexible tube that was inserted into one section of leaking pipe on Sunday is now catching about 20 percent of the estimated 5,000 barrels of oil a day pouring from the well located 40 miles ...

Operations Research, Vol. 44, No. 1, Special Issue on New Directions in Operations Management (Jan. - Feb., 1996), pp. 7-20 (14 pages) Metal-forming operations such as extrusion, drawing, and rolling ...

Sink drawing. This method does not utilize internal support, unlike the floating plug drawing. Throughout this process, tubing is pulled through a conical die, lessening the inside and outside ...