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SECTOR 01Heavy Industry & Primary Metallurgy

Meltshop Operations from Scrap and Hot Metal Charging to Continuous Casting and Billet Yard

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.

Covered Shop-Floor Stations: Scrap Yard, Sinter & Torpedo Management, Electric Arc Furnace (EAF) / Converter (BOF), Ladle Furnace (LF), Vacuum Degassing (VD), 4-Strand Continuous Casting Machine (CCM) and Turnover Cooling Bed

5 Core Stations

Sequential Shop-Floor Flow

Scrap/Hot Metal Charge → Primary Smelting → LF/VD → Continuous Casting → Billet Yard

25+ Field Screens

Operator & Supervisor UI

Heat cockpit, alloy consumption, mixed casting, spectrometer and OEE panels

Live Analysis & 1640°C

Chemical & Thermal Tracking

Spectrometer min/max tolerance matrix and 3D thermal heat map

Heat → Billet

Traceability

Complete metallurgical genealogy from scrap charge to individual billet barcode

01 — 5-STEP SEQUENTIAL SHOP-FLOOR WORKFLOW

Sequential Screens from Raw Material to 3D Warehouse

In this sector, shop-floor operations progress across 5 sequential stages. At each stage, responsibilities are structured across operator cockpits, shift supervision, quality engineering and 3D spatial monitoring.

STEP 01

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.

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

Shift Supervisor & Control

  • Order Sequencing and Heat Scheduling Cockpit
  • Raw Material Inventory and Charge Queue Monitor

Quality & Laboratory

  • Incoming Raw Material and Sinter Chemical Analysis Screen

3D Digital Twin & Warehouse

  • 3D Scrap Yard and Bucket Charging Digital Twin (Overhead magnet crane, scrap bays and live charging bucket telemetry)
STEP 02

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.

Operator Screens (POD)

  • Electric Arc Furnace (EAF) / Converter Heat Operator Screen
  • Desulfurization Operation and Reagent Consumption Screen
  • Primary Alloy and Consumable Addition Confirmation Screen

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

Quality & Laboratory

  • Spectrometer Real-Time Chemical Analysis Monitor (13 Elements + Carbon Equivalent Min/Max Tolerance Check)

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)
STEP 03

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.

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

Shift Supervisor & Control

  • Ladle Furnace Daily Production and Cycle Time Report
  • Meltshop Master Overview and Station Pacing Panel

Quality & Laboratory

  • Secondary Metallurgy Sample and Quality Result Screen
  • Target Steel Grade Recipe and Temperature Deviation Alert Screen

3D Digital Twin & Warehouse

  • 3D Ladle Furnace (LF), Vacuum (VD) and Ladle/Tundish Preheating Twin (Alloy hoppers, vacuum vessel and burner preheating stands)
STEP 04

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.

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

Shift Supervisor & Control

  • Continuous Casting Efficiency and KPI Dashboard
  • Sequence Casting Continuity (Tundish / Ladle Sequence) Monitor
  • Continuous Casting Daily and Monthly Output Report

Quality & Laboratory

  • Heat-Based Quality Disposition and Billet Grade Classification Screen

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)
STEP 05

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.

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

Shift Supervisor & Control

  • Billet Yard Layout and Inventory Monitor
  • ERP – Automation Integration Queue Monitor

Quality & Laboratory

  • Billet Quality Approval and Characteristic Comparison Screen

3D Digital Twin & Warehouse

  • 3D Cooling Bed, Robotic Barcoding and Billet Yard Twin (Walking-beam thermal gradient visualization and 3D heat-to-billet genealogy)

02 — INTEGRATION LAYERS

Enterprise ERP and Shop-Floor Automation (Level-2 / PLC) Integration

ENTERPRISE ERP INTEGRATION SCOPE

  • Dispatching heat-based production orders and target steel grade recipes to station operator screens
  • Automated heat-level consumption posting for scrap, hot metal, ferro-alloys, cored wire, electrodes and refractories
  • Semi-finished goods receipt of every cut billet with heat and steel grade batch attributes
  • Updating heat and billet usage decisions based on optical emission spectrometer laboratory results

SHOP-FLOOR AUTOMATION, DEVICE & 3D TELEMETRY SCOPE

  • Scrap yard weighbridges, torpedo car weighing systems and magnetic crane charging automation
  • EAF / BOF, Ladle Furnace (LF), Vacuum Degassing (VD) and Continuous Casting (CCM) Level-2 (L2) PLC/SCADA integration
  • Real-time chemical analysis and carbon equivalent (Cev) telemetry from optical emission spectrometers
  • Cooling bed length/piece counting sensors and robotic billet end-stamping / barcoding units

03 — CUSTOM SECTOR SOLUTION MODULES

Specialized Shop-Floor Developments in This Sector

MESDEV-01.1

Heat-Based Meltshop Cockpit and Automated Consumption/Output Confirmation

Single-screen management of heat orders, ferro-alloy additions and cut billet confirmations across EAF/BOF, Ladle Furnace, Vacuum Degassing and Continuous Casting stations.

OPERATIONAL REQUIREMENT

In a high-temperature, rapid-cycle meltshop environment, entering alloy additions, power consumption and cut billet counts on paper at shift end causes inventory and cost variances.

ARCHITECTURAL APPROACH

  • Live display of the active heat order and target metallurgical recipe on station operator cockpits (Smelting, LF, VD, CCM).
  • Real-time ERP goods issue posting of alloy, wire, oxygen and energy actuals captured from Level-2 (L2) automation upon operator confirmation.
  • Automated semi-finished goods receipt of every cut billet with heat number, strand number, length and theoretical/actual weight.

OPERATIONAL VALUE

Heat-level raw material/alloy consumption and semi-finished billet output are reconciled in real time without waiting for end-of-shift paperwork.

MESDEV-01.2

Spectrometer Laboratory Integration and Intermix (Mixed Casting) Control

Instant comparison of optical emission spectrometer chemical results against steel grade tolerances and automated segregation of transition billets during sequence casting.

OPERATIONAL REQUIREMENT

Communicating sample results via phone or paper delays alloy trimming at the ladle furnace; failing to isolate tundish intermix billets between consecutive heats creates quality risk.

ARCHITECTURAL APPROACH

  • Automated comparison of 13 chemical elements and carbon equivalent (Cev) from the spectrometer against heat recipe min/max limits.
  • Color-coded highlighting of out-of-tolerance elements on both operator and quality assurance screens.
  • Identification of transition billets by tonnage and strand position on the Mixed Casting screen, assigning them to an isolated quality grade.

OPERATIONAL VALUE

Metallurgical lab results appear on operator screens within seconds, and intermix billets are segregated before mingling with prime heats.

DIGITAL TWINDEV-01.3

3D Meltshop Digital Twin with 1640°C Thermal Heat Map

Live 3D WebGL visualization of the entire meltshop from scrap yard and arc furnace to ladle/vacuum stations, 4-strand continuous caster and cooling bed.

OPERATIONAL REQUIREMENT

In multi-level meltshop buildings spanning wide bays, tracking crane movements, ladle positions and casting strand statuses from 2D tables makes spatial bottleneck detection difficult.

ARCHITECTURAL APPROACH

  • Full-scale 3D plant scene covering the scrap bay, EAF, LF, VD, CCM, turnover cooling bed and robotic barcoding zone.
  • Four camera and rendering modes: Industrial PBR, FLIR Thermal Heat Map (320°C–1640°C), CAD X-Ray and Night Shift.
  • Interactive inspection drawers opening heat number, steel grade, temperature, chemical analysis and OEE cards when clicking any ladle or billet.

OPERATIONAL VALUE

Production and quality managers supervise the complete meltshop flow, thermal distribution and equipment states from a single 3D control view.

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Related Technical Architecture Publications

DIGITAL TWIN · 7 min read

Shop-Floor Screens and 3D Digital Twin Architecture in Meltshop and Continuous Casting (CCM) Plants

Architectural overview of how heat orders are governed from the scrap bucket to the turnover cooling bed using station operator panels, spectrometer screens and a 3D thermal digital twin.