Project description
OBJECTIVES
- Real-time product tracking.
- From billets to rolls of wire, bundled bars, extruded profiles etc. in real time.
- Automatic billet readings on loading into heating furnace, compliance checks and billet warehouse unloading.
- Linking and tracking billet heats loaded to rolled/extruded products.
- Automatic linking of data on processes, consumption, quantity/time totals, operator comments, product measurements (also taken automatically using field instrumentation) for every semi-finished rolled/extruded product.
- Integration with company ERP system to progress scheduled batches and calculate costs with reliable and effective, non-standard data.
- Automatic identification of rolled/extruded products and loading into finished product warehouse.
BENEFITS ACHIEVED
- Real-time tracking data just a click away, eliminating paper and costly searches in the event of complaints or non-compliance issues.
- Precise costs for each production batch, calculated on the basis of actual rather than standard totals.
- Availability for all company departments of information correlated automatically on the product/process/quality/production orders.
Supply of clean reliable data for artificial intelligence software and machine learning for predictive maintenance, system modelling and ongoing improvement of product and process quality.
