Glossary
Metal Furnace Operator Terms & Vocabulary
15 essential metal furnace operator terms with plain-English definitions: the vocabulary you’ll hear in training and on day one.
Key metal furnace operator vocabulary
These 15 terms come up constantly in metal furnace operator training, on the job and in interviews. Knowing them helps you follow instructions, document accurately and sound prepared.
- Alloy
- Added element.
- Charge
- Material loaded.
- EAF
- Electric arc furnace.
- First article
- First part checked before a run.
- Heat
- One furnace batch.
- Induction furnace
- Electric melting furnace.
- Ladle
- Container for molten metal.
- Lockout/tagout
- Energy isolation before servicing.
- Melt chemistry
- Composition.
- PPE
- Personal protective equipment.
- Refractory
- Heat-resistant lining.
- Scrap
- Parts that fail inspection.
- Slag
- Impurities on top.
- SOP
- Standard operating procedure.
- Tap
- Pour out molten metal.
Practice these terms
Test yourself with the free Metal Furnace Operator practice test: it includes vocabulary questions built from this list. For a complete course, see Metal Furnace Operator training.
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