Industrial Shop-Floor Architecture Publications & Sector Insights.

Key Architectural Takeaways

• Every heat is tracked across 5 sequential station screens from scrap/hot metal charge to billet marking.
• Spectrometer chemical analysis results are compared in real time against target steel grade limits on the operator screen.
• The Mixed Casting (Intermix) screen automatically segregates transition billets between consecutive heats during sequence casting.
• A 3D Meltshop Digital Twin with a 1640°C thermal heat map unifies the entire plant flow in a single WebGL scene.

Key Architectural Takeaways

• Camera and roller-scale verification at the furnace entry prevents charging billets from an incorrect heat or steel grade.
• The in-furnace billet map displays every billet's slot position, heat color code and soaking duration in real time.
• Main Tower, cold shear/saw, NDT crack testing and bundling screens preserve single-heat traceability.
• The 3D Finished Warehouse screen visualizes rack and bay coordinates of bundles and coils with live occupancy and quality status.