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The British Iron and Steel Research Association or BISRA, formed in 1944, was the research arm of the British steel industry. It had headquarters in London, originally at 11 Park Lane, later moved to 24 Buckingham Gate, with Laboratories in
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. The organization was created by Sir Charles Goodeve, who remained its director until his retirement in 1969.
Roger Eddison Roger Tatham Eddison (16 September 1916, Yokohama – 2000) was an English practitioner of Operations Research. He was Joint Editor of ''Operational Research Quarterly'' from 1950 to 1958. He was President of the Operational Research Society 1966- ...
was hired as a manager shortly after BISRA's founding. BISRA's research has been responsible for much of the
automation Automation describes a wide range of technologies that reduce human intervention in processes, namely by predetermining decision criteria, subprocess relationships, and related actions, as well as embodying those predeterminations in machines ...
of modern steelmaking. BISRA were pioneers of
digital computing A computer is a machine that can be programmed to carry out sequences of arithmetic or logical operations ( computation) automatically. Modern digital electronic computers can perform generic sets of operations known as programs. These pro ...
in the steel industry. BISRA was funded 15% by a grant from the government of
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, and 85% by a cooperative of several steelmaking companies."Choosing the Operational Research Programme for B.I.S.R.A.", R. H. Collcutt, R. D. Reader OR, Vol. 18, No. 3 (September 1967), pp. 219-242


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British Steel (1967–1999) British Steel was a major British steel producer. It originated from the nationalization, nationalised British Steel Corporation (BSC), formed in 1967, which was privatised as a public limited company, British Steel plc, in 1988. It was once a ...
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Steel Steel is an alloy made up of iron with added carbon to improve its strength and fracture resistance compared to other forms of iron. Many other elements may be present or added. Stainless steels that are corrosion- and oxidation-resistant ty ...
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Steelmaking Steelmaking is the process of producing steel from iron ore and carbon/or scrap. In steelmaking, impurities such as nitrogen, silicon, phosphorus, sulfur and excess carbon (the most important impurity) are removed from the sourced iron, and all ...
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Steel mill A steel mill or steelworks is an industrial plant for the manufacture of steel. It may be an integrated steel works carrying out all steps of steelmaking from smelting iron ore to rolled product, but may also be a plant where steel semi-finish ...


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Sir Charles Goodeve Biography -- section on BISRA
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