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The mod expands the current furnace(Smelting process)(without affecting the original in any way) by splitting the process into 3 processes,>>
1)Melting/ore smelting
2)Forming/Making rolls of the molten content
3)Shearing/ cutting the rolls into smaller plates

The mod focuses in changing the speed and dynamics of the process, like allowing storage in molten stage,or storing in large sheets, that can very rapidly be converted to plates.
Another major advantage is that since ores can be smelted and solidified at anyplace (near the mining site), converting and transporting it as larger sheets makes transportation easier as well as helps control pollution(if its a concern.) and they can be converted into smaller plates when and where ever needed

The vanilla ore processing is the one process that all designs try to master , as it is the corner stone for the development of a dynamic factory. But this task is no longer as easy as it used to be.With the development of new mods, each more dynamic and expansive than its predecessor ,the demands of various goods fluctuate at an all time high rate. The conventional method of maintaining a buffer is also facing serious challenge as some research and production consume resources so fast and so irregularly that its hard to forecast the future demand.

In response to this i have developed this mod, which essentially breaks down the smelting process(that is right now compiled as one in the furnace). It can be seen as an expansion/substitution(at later stage).It aims at a more dynamic control over the ore processing .

The furnace has been divided into 3 segments,
1)Ore Smelting process
2)Solidification of molten matter and Formation of large matter structures/entities (sheets,rolls)
3)Shearing/Cutting these larger structures/entities into smaller workable sheets.

In this initial release the energy and time bases have been set in comparison to the vanilla. As things progress, the plan is to re-adjust them to their UTILITIES (products that consume them).

Currently the process is based on 2 standards.
1)Power standard
2)Time standard

Based on them an attempt has been made to make a relation with the furnace version.(For this relation the vanilla process has been taken as a low volume casting process)(The newer process has been taken as high volume rolling and extrusion process, coupled with cutting process)

Stone f>>stone furnace
Elec. f>>electric furnace
s(1,2,3)>>smelting process
eq. in f>>Equivalent of smelting in furnace.(Converting smelting to furnace which consumes exactly the same energy with max spread{minimum total time})

Energy of machines represent the power requirement of machines. 0.35>>350KW(at speed 1); 0.18>>90KW(at speed 0.5) and so on


3.5 represents the process time. stone furnace (at 180 KW and 1 crafting speed) takes 100% or *1(crafting speed) of this time, and consumes 0.63 MJ of energy per process.
similarly electric furnace at *2(crafting speed) takes only 50% time and 0.315 MJ energy per process.

At the end is the relative energy used by each process to produce 200 plates(iron/copper)

This chart shows the relative energy used in various process (in MJ)(For single process/ producing 1 iron plate)

This chart shows the relative time of each process, and the net time required per process(taken vanilla as standard)
The number at front represents the time required to produce plates by vanilla method(furnace)(175;350;700)
The number at the top most part of any process shows the percent time that activity takes of the process time
{45;5;55}>>{45% of 175=78.75 sec ;5 % of 175}and so on.

At the end is the net time required to produce 200 plates(iron/copper)

{All data can be multiplied by 5 to get results for steel plates or divided by 2 to get the result for copper cable }
This graph shows the relative CUMULATIVE time required by each process to produce 200 plates

Even though electric furnace takes the minimum energy, the processes in smelting line are faster than the furnace line.

The time graph shows CUMULATIVE time for each process, that is time required for 1 ore to turn into a plate.

However the beauty of this is that when the plates are being produced, its a continuous process and the rate of production is determined by the slowest step in the process.

So now when considering the S-1 process, which has the slowest step at 55% of the time, its only 10% slower than the electric furnace, even though the net time is 105%, which would make it 110% slower>>(55-50/50)%>>10%

By this measure, the S-3 has double the speed of Electric furnace.(slowest process at 25% time)

1)convert ore to iron(the blue stuff in tank is molten iron)(can make iron or steel from it)
2)Molten ore stored or converted into sheet
3)Sheets converted into plates

Those are the sheets on the belt, each yields 200 steel

Now lets compare This is the well known furnace setting, feel from 10*2=20 drills is coming into the furnace, and is continuously being used by 18 furnace(removing the last 4 idle)
Even those before it are not really continuously being fed.

This is the smelting setup. I have 10 drills continuously pumping into the washers.I have made 1 washer for each drill but since the minimum feed is 50 ores, its mostly idle in the process (this was melting).In each cycle there is a delay of 10 ores, meaning in time it takes washer to convert 50 ores to liquid, drill only feeds 40 ores(time 78.5sec). After that there are assembly machines for solidification. here too only one is needed. (time 9 sec). This means that its more convenient to convert the ore into sheets , than to transport ore.
AND THE PROCESS/SETUP I HAVE USED HERE IS THE SLOWEST AND CRUDEST.(50 PLATES SMALL ROLL)

The slowest process is the SHEARING(the setting with copper plate sign)(time 96.5 sec).But since needs only one simple ingredient , expanding it is easy.
much easier than furnace,as only 5 shearing press are needed to satisfy 10 drills,(the 5th one kicks with a lot of idle time,so a little more than 4).

And by the way its only 10% slower than a furnace(at the slowest level).

Meaning that if we had fully fed furnace and simple press, their production will be in the ratio 110 plates to 100 plates. In the time furnace produces 110 plates, it will produce 100 plates.
The faster methods have a ratio of 100 to 200 plates. It produces 2X the amount of plates in the same time(and of course you need even lower number of machines making it more compact.)


This image helps compare the rate of production.Both have blue belt and fast inserters.
The smelter is overwhelmingly faster than the furnace, and at the same time its much more compact and easier to plan.

In furnace line the third row had 120 plates. that will give you an idea about their speed.(and the furnace has double the number of drills feeding)

In this setup , about 50 drills are needed to make them(press) continuously produce(at the lowest/slowest recipe).
(which is 2.2 times slower then the fastest)In top tire, this setup of 22 press can completely saturate 110+ drills.
Talk about compact.

1)Change the energy requirement to be product oriented (i will be using the Yuoki Industries Mod as basis)
2)Create a regeneration cycle {heat water from cooling the metal }{regain some of the energy and maybe tune up time}
3)Balance the mod on the experience of other players >>continuous
4)Add more variations /more ore etc.

This mod needs Yuoki Industries mods.

I have elaborated the balancing procedure as the next balancing is already under way. Those that are not using mods in " Mod Compilations / Complete Overhaul" section MIGHT find them unbalanced. I am especially going to focus on " Yuoki Industries -- power section" to balance power requirements.

I hope u have fun with this mod.

Version history
v0.0.1 initial release

License
The MIT License (MIT)

simplification>>
PUBLIC DOMAIN
This is a free to use property /entity for anyone and everyone. However the use or misuse of this is not the responsibility of the source and the same is not liable for any compensation in case of any kind of damage.

Due to the restraints of the parent mods assembly machine, it could not be made robust,

So i have made it stand alone.All of the entities used are introduced thin the mod.

The basis for balancing are these

The time relation.
This gives the net CUMULATIVE time needed to make 200 plates
Time split.
This gives the percentage of net time taken by each activity.

Energy relation.

This gives the net energy and the partial energy of each process.

The time relation is
+25%:-25%-50%


Since the shearing/cutting is the process for production of plates, its now much faster(shorter).

This has made the process even more compact and easy to control