When shopping for a new piece of equipment or designing a manufacturing system, it's common practice to make the biggest-ticket item a priority and to work on the auxiliary items, support systems, and consumables later. When it comes to designing a tube or pipe mill, too often the cooling system-that is, the sump, pump, reservoir, filtration system, skimmers, the coolant itself, and the quality of the local water-is regarded as an addon system that can be dealt with later.
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