New Book- Plant Auditing

Plant Auditing: A Powerful Tool for Improving Metallurgical Plant Performance is the first book ever written to show how to get maximum benefit out of an audit. This comprehensive guide is easy to follow with numerous charts and checklists. It walks the reader through the complexities of setting up the right kind of audit, the type that will provide actionable steps to profitable outcomes. Also included are 20 case studies illustrating real-life problems typically encountered at plants that can be resolved through the audit procedures described in this book. 

The author, Deepak Malhotra, has more than 30 years of experience in metallurgical and mining auditing. A Gaudin Award recipient, he is eminently qualified to write this first book on plant auditing.

Since leaving AMAX in 1990, he has been president of Resource Development, Inc., a mining and metallurgy consulting and testing firm. He has served in several SME leadership positions, including chairing several international symposia.

The book is available from the SME.