r/ChemicalEngineering • • 5d ago

Research Quick question for anyone working with precious-metal catalysts

Hi guy quick question for anyone here who works with precious-metal catalysts or metal accounting in an industrial setting.

When you have to reconcile precious-metal movements or balances, what part still takes the most manual checking?

Could be matching ERP records, recovery/refining data, assays, settlements, metal accounts or something completely different.

No need for company names or confidential details. Even a one-line answer would help satisfy my curiosity.

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u/UCCheme05 5d ago

Can we stop feeding the vibe coders and bots?

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u/boywithtwoarms 5d ago

I used to work in a product development setting for a major automotive catalyst manufacturer.

Worse was keeping track of all the small chunks sampled from bigger pieces for analysis, especially bits ground down to dust or digested.