Abstract: A web-based system solution, including process logic and data model, that allocates available resources to project tasks in a manner that ensures availability of specific resources with required skill sets to perform specific tasks at specific time periods in future when those tasks become due. The solution automates the creation and maintenance of realistic project plans linked at all times to resource availability, as an outcome of such resource allocations. Resource allocations are done to the entire set of future tasks across all projects in the organization in a coordinated manner. The system continually monitors changes to critical input parameters that could impact the demand or the availability of specific resources at specific time periods. The resource allocations are performed at a minimum at least once a day to incorporate the impact of changes in real time on resource availability and resulting project plans and resource loads, thus “dynamic”.

Abstract: Continuous bath or curtain processes for the thermal deposition of a coating from a coating solution onto a moving metal web are used to apply a coating onto the web. The compositions that result from the processes are substantially free of defects relative to batch processes. The continuous process is particularly applicable for priming zinc and zinc-alloy coated steel webs.

Abstract: Computer-based systems and methods of determining product parameters, performing process control, and/or classifying products are provided. These computer-based systems and methods analyze previous responses to different iterations of one or more tests and, based on this analysis, predict responses to future tests. The predictions are based on a classification and regression tree analysis. Also provided are computer-based systems which are pre-programmed with the results of at least one such analysis and which perform product parameter determination, process control, and/or product classifications based upon those results. The methods and computer systems are particularly well-suited for use in the context of manufacturing galvanneal-coated steel products (e.g., strips, sheets, plates, rods, wires, and the like), though it is understood that the methods and computer systems are not limited to use on such semi-finished products or their methods of manufacture.