Excellence
In the Foundry & Steel Industry
Master processes
- Keep the spread in the green area and eliminate unplanned outliers
- Keep processes stable with all product changes
Increase efficiency
- Introduce higher-level process control parameters
- Eliminate drivers of high costs in operation and maintenance
Digitalize processes
- Communicate vertically & horizontally and evaluate processes statistically
- Track progress and quality and report results online
Upgrade and modernize plants
- Adapt capacity to production and make equipment fit for the future
- Integrate new requirements for environmental protection and occupational safety
Process audit of a steel foundry for a strategic investor
Reduce rework and increase efficiency
- Audit of all areas of smelting | Forms | Casting | Heat treatment and machining
- Root cause analysis
- Suggest solutions
Increase OEE – Overall Equipment Effectiveness by ladle automation
Eliminate the bottleneck between melting and strand casting and increase production
- Automated ladle transport with weighing of the amount of molten iron
- Temperature and Analysis Tracking Charge Make-Up > Spectrometer > Treatment
- Consideration of deslagging, residual iron recycling and ladle changes
Smart foundry automation as a holistic approach to process excellence
Improvement of transparency and key figures
- Forward planning of production and maintenance
- Methods and systems combine TPM, Kaizen, Lean, OEE, MES, 6σ etc.
- Synchronize data and make it available offline for analyzes and reports
