Digitalization Condition Monitoring in the Steel Industry with Acoustic Expert Acoustic Expert is technology-led innovation at its best. During the uptime of various hardware, distinct tonal sounds that are characteristic for a particular component can be detected. These ... ISSUE #06 (MAR 18) 01.03.2018
Digitalization BOX Concept: More than just a CMS High-end maintenance concepts and technologies have recently gained more attention, partly because of the challenges facing steel producers on account of global overcapacity. BOX Concept, the ... ISSUE #06 (MAR 18) 01.03.2018
Digitalization Fully Automated Converter Operation At the steelmaking stage, more and more tasks that used to be done by human operators can today be executed automatically. For a while now, most converter-based measurements have been taken ... ISSUE #06 (MAR 18) 01.03.2018
Digitalization Automated Scrap Material Flow Primetals Technologies has continually worked on perfecting the automated scrap material flow for steel plants that are based on electric arc furnaces (EAFs). Depending on the customer’s ... ISSUE #06 (MAR 18) 01.03.2018
Digitalization Melt Expert Melt Expert is a state-of-the-art electrode-control system that Primetals Technologies has designed to ensure optimal operation of electric arc furnaces. It retrieves production data from a ... ISSUE #06 (MAR 18) 01.03.2018
Digitalization Maintenance and Asset Technology Maintenance and Asset Technology (MAT) from Primetals Technologies is a system for the intelligent management of all maintenance-related assets, and can do much more than cost tracking and ... ISSUE #06 (MAR 18) 01.03.2018
Digitalization Production-Management System Production-management systems for steel plants should ideally cover the entire metals production process from iron- and steelmaking to rolling and processing to shipping of the final product ... ISSUE #04 (FEB 17) 01.03.2018
Digitalization The Smart Plant of the Future The future of steel production is based on the "intelligent orchestration“ of all equipment. We take a detailed look at how to achieve it. ISSUE #06 (MAR 18) 01.03.2018
Digitalization Through-Process Optimization The progress of digitalization in many industries is creating new opportunities for the improvement of overall efficiency and quality in steel production. At the same time, end-customers are ... ISSUE #06 (MAR 18) 01.03.2018
Digitalization Obtaining Measurements the Intuitive Way Nicole Oberschmidleitner is Head of Mechatronic Products at Primetals Technologies, and has been with the company for 16 years. ISSUE #06 (MAR 18) 01.03.2018
Digitalization Taper Checker Wireless The Taper Checker Wireless is a taper-measuring system designed to check and adjust the mold within the required tolerances before casting begins. The taper of the lateral mold surfaces ... ISSUE #06 (MAR 18) 01.03.2018
Digitalization Automatic Thermocouple Checker The Automatic Thermocouple Checker is a computer-aided tool designed to test the quality of a thermocouple installation. The test involves heating the copper plate in the same position and with ... ISSUE #06 (MAR 18) 01.03.2018
Digitalization OsciChecker Wireless OsciChecker Wireless is designed to analyze the behavior of oscillators on continuous casting machines and accordingly optimizes maintenance time, reduces downtime, minimizes strand breakouts, and ... ISSUE #06 (MAR 18) 01.03.2018
Digitalization DynaGap 3D DynaGap Soft Reduction 3D (DynaGap 3D) is a sophisticated process model that allows for dynamic roll-gap changes in slab and bloom casters. Working in combination with remote adjustable segment ... ISSUE #06 (MAR 18) 01.03.2018
Digitalization Dynacs 3D Thanks to continuous improvements in computer performance, it is now possible to calculate the temperature at any point within a continuously cast strand in real time. Using this information, the ... ISSUE #06 (MAR 18) 01.03.2018
Digitalization DynaPhase Calculation of the 3D temperature profile of the strand requires accurate knowledge of the thermodynamic properties of steel, which includes enthalpy, solid fraction, density, and conductivity ... ISSUE #06 (MAR 18) 01.03.2018
Digitalization Ask Dr. Hirai (#06) In this section, Dr. Etsuro Hirai, CTO of Primetals Technologies, exclusively answers your questions. Should there be an issue that you would like him to address, please send us an email containing ISSUE #06 (MAR 18) 01.03.2018
Digitalization Pioneering the Future of Continuous Casting As one of the pioneers of continuous casting technology—a legacy extending back to the 1960s—Primetals Technologies has always been the leader in the development and implementation of ... ISSUE #06 (MAR 18) 01.03.2018
Digitalization Maintenance and Simulation System for Testing Process Changes in Casting The steel industry is well on its way toward fully automated continuous casting, which is going to minimize the risk of human error and increase workplace safety considerably. Meanwhile, tried and ... ISSUE #06 (MAR 18) 01.03.2018
Digitalization Nozzle Expert The Nozzle Expert helps to detect clogged nozzles and broken hoses in all types of continuous casting machines, and ensures that the strand is uniformly cooled during the continuous casting ... ISSUE #06 (MAR 18) 01.03.2018
Digitalization Equipment Expert The Equipment Expert is designed to monitor the installed equipment of the caster and provide operators with valuable feedback about any maintenance work required. Equipment could include, for ... ISSUE #06 (MAR 18) 01.03.2018
Digitalization Intermix Expert for Continuous Casting The Intermix Expert for all types of continuous casting machines calculates the mixed-steel area and incompatible strand portions along the entire strand. The information gathered allows the ... ISSUE #06 (MAR 18) 01.03.2018
Digitalization Yield Expert The aim of the Yield Expert is to minimize scrap and to optimize yield. It considers scrap portions, quality defects, weight restrictions, sample cuts, and width changes while producing the ... ISSUE #06 (MAR 18) 01.03.2018
Digitalization The Furnace at your Fingertips Melt Expert is the solution of choice from Primetals Technologies to monitor and control the melting process of electric arc furnaces. It retrieves information from a vast array of components, ... ISSUE #04 (FEB 17) 01.02.2017
Digitalization Industry 4.0 for Steel: Introducing Metals Orchestra Primetals Technologies has developed a specific approach for the future-oriented implementation of the "industry 4.0" concept in the context of today's steel production ISSUE #04 (FEB 17) 01.02.2017
Digitalization Hearing is Believing Primetals Technologies introduced a unique acoustic monitoring system known as Acoustic Expert. The system detects sound deviations from the normal state and allows condition-based maintenance ... ISSUE #03 (SEP 16) 01.09.2016
Digitalization The Future of Metals How will the metals industry look in the decades to come? Which developments, innovations and technologies will prevail? Primetals Technologies is asking questions like these today so that the ... ISSUE #03 (SEP 16) 01.09.2016
Digitalization ESTAD: End-to-End Excellence Across the Metals Value Chain of Mechatronics Mechatronics papers will be presented by Primetals Technologies specialists at the ESTAD Congress covering the topics of improved strip-steering control using an optical measurement device, inline ... ISSUE #01 (MAY 15) 01.05.2015
Digitalization ESTAD: End-to-End Excellence Across the Metals Value Chain of Automation Automation papers will be presented by Primetals Technologies specialists at the ESTAD Congress covering the topics of process optimization, condition monitoring, the Process Expert system ... ISSUE #01 (MAY 15) 01.05.2015
Digitalization Ars Electronica: Beyond Tomorrow Michael Badics is the driving force behind new developments at the Solutions division of Ars Electronica, an Austrian-based center of innovation focused on implementing radical presentation and ... ISSUE #01 (MAY 15) 01.05.2015
