Iron & Steel · Meltshop and Continuous Casting (CCM)
In meltshop facilities, production starts with charging scrap baskets or torpedo-car hot metal from the blast furnace, reaches target chemical composition across primary smelting and secondary metallurgy stations, and solidifies into semi-finished billets at the continuous casting machine (CCM). The shop-floor architecture tracks each individual Heat across all stations, uniting Level-2 (L2) automation, spectrometer laboratory systems, operator panels (POD) and a 3D Meltshop Digital Twin on a single data backbone.
Raw Material Preparation, Sintering and Hot Metal / Scrap Charging
Coordinates weighing and pouring of torpedo-car hot metal from the blast furnace in integrated plants, or layered magnetic crane loading of graded scrap into charging buckets in electric arc furnace plants.
1. Operator Screens (POD)
- Scrap Bucket Preparation and Layered Charge Consumption Screen
- Torpedo Car Weighing and Pouring Operator Screen
- Sinter Production and Raw Material Weighbridge Consumption Screen
2. Shift Supervisor & Control
- Order Sequencing and Heat Scheduling Cockpit
- Raw Material Inventory and Charge Queue Monitor
3. Quality & Laboratory
- Incoming Raw Material and Sinter Chemical Analysis Screen
4. 3D Digital Twin & Warehouse
- 3D Scrap Yard and Bucket Charging Digital Twin (Overhead magnet crane, scrap bays and live charging bucket telemetry)
Primary Smelting (Electric Arc Furnace / Converter) and Desulfurization
Tracks hot metal desulfurization and converter blowing or scrap melting in the Electric Arc Furnace (EAF), recording electrical energy, oxygen, carbon, lime and alloy additions through tapping into the steel ladle.
1. Operator Screens (POD)
- Electric Arc Furnace (EAF) / Converter Heat Operator Screen
- Desulfurization Operation and Reagent Consumption Screen
- Primary Alloy and Consumable Addition Confirmation Screen
2. Shift Supervisor & Control
- Meltshop Order and Active Heat Management Screen
- Primary Smelting Daily Production and Tap-to-Tap Report
- Automated / Manual Downtime and Breakdown Logging Panel
3. Quality & Laboratory
- Spectrometer Real-Time Chemical Analysis Monitor (13 Elements + Carbon Equivalent Min/Max Tolerance Check)
4. 3D Digital Twin & Warehouse
- 3D Electric Arc Furnace (EAF) Digital Twin (Tilting furnace shell, electrodes, ladle transfer car and 1640°C FLIR Thermal Heat Map mode)
Secondary Metallurgy (Ladle Furnace - LF & Vacuum Degassing - VD)
Manages ladle heating to target casting temperature in the Ladle Furnace (LF), argon stirring, ferro-alloy bin dosing and cored wire feeding for final chemistry trim, plus Vacuum Degassing (VD) for specialty steel grades.
1. Operator Screens (POD)
- Ladle Furnace (LF) and Vacuum Degassing (VD) Process Tracking Screen
- Ferro-Alloy Bin and Cored Wire Feeding Consumption Screen
- Ladle Preparation, Refractory Life and Casting Ladle Tracking Screen
2. Shift Supervisor & Control
- Ladle Furnace Daily Production and Cycle Time Report
- Meltshop Master Overview and Station Pacing Panel
3. Quality & Laboratory
- Secondary Metallurgy Sample and Quality Result Screen
- Target Steel Grade Recipe and Temperature Deviation Alert Screen
4. 3D Digital Twin & Warehouse
- 3D Ladle Furnace (LF), Vacuum (VD) and Ladle/Tundish Preheating Twin (Alloy hoppers, vacuum vessel and burner preheating stands)
Continuous Casting Machine (CCM) and Mixed-Grade (Intermix) Casting Management
Controls ladle opening on the rotary turret into the tundish, solidification through water-cooled molds across 4 casting strands, intermix zone calculation during sequence casting of different grades, and oxy-fuel torch cutting.
1. Operator Screens (POD)
- Continuous Casting (CCM) Operator Cockpit and Heat Detail Screen
- Mixed-Grade (Intermix) Casting Tracking and Transition Zone Segregation Screen
- Continuous Casting Production Confirmation and Head/Tail Crop Scrap Screen
2. Shift Supervisor & Control
- Continuous Casting Efficiency and KPI Dashboard
- Sequence Casting Continuity (Tundish / Ladle Sequence) Monitor
- Continuous Casting Daily and Monthly Output Report
3. Quality & Laboratory
- Heat-Based Quality Disposition and Billet Grade Classification Screen
4. 3D Digital Twin & Warehouse
- 3D Continuous Casting Machine (CCM) and Pulpit Control Twin (Dual-arm rotary turret, tundish, 4 casting strands and synchronous torch-cut cars)
Turnover Cooling Bed, Robotic Barcoding and Semi-Finished Billet Yard
Tracks hot billets across the turnover cooling bed, assigns unique identity via robotic end-stamping and barcode tagging, and routes billets either to the billet stockyard or directly to the rolling mill reheating furnace for hot charging.
1. Operator Screens (POD)
- Billet Length/Piece Counting and Production Confirmation Screen
- Billet Marking and Barcode Verification Screen
- Confirmation Reversal and Semi-Finished Stock Return Screen
2. Shift Supervisor & Control
- Billet Yard Layout and Inventory Monitor
- ERP – Automation Integration Queue Monitor
3. Quality & Laboratory
- Billet Quality Approval and Characteristic Comparison Screen
4. 3D Digital Twin & Warehouse
- 3D Cooling Bed, Robotic Barcoding and Billet Yard Twin (Walking-beam thermal gradient visualization and 3D heat-to-billet genealogy)