[International News] Aosteel United Donavitz Steel Plant will build a knowledge-based quality control system "full process quality control" to optimize production process and product quality
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Primetals Technology recently received a new order from Aosteel United Steel Company, and will build a knowledge-based quality control system "full process quality control" (TPQC) for its Donavitz Steel Plant, Austria. The project is scheduled to be implemented in the second quarter of 2023.
Full-process quality control (TPQC) solution will enable Aoganglian Steel Company Donavitz Steel Company to fully realize long-term data recording and automatic quality assessment. Copyright: Aoganglian Steel Company
This new solution can enable steel mills to achieve automatic and comprehensive long-term data analysis. After each production step, the quality of the product and process is automatically evaluated to ensure that the product meets customer requirements. Equipment operators and process engineers will gain the capability to fully process evaluation. The results given by the system can then be used as the basis for further optimization measures. In this way, both the production process and the quality of the final product will be improved.
Automatic analysis covers the entire steel mill
Aoganglian Steel has used the TPQC system on its No. 4 continuous casting machine at its Donavitz plant for more than a year and a half. Marco Vauti, project manager of factory expansion, shared his experience: the ability of the
TPQC system to analyze long-term collected data sets has helped us continuously optimize our production processes and product quality.
Relying on this new order, product quality will be automatically evaluated along the entire production chain, including in ladle furnaces, converters, secondary metallurgy equipment and vacuum degassing equipment. This system expansion will be implemented together with the expansion of the existing system of the No. 4 continuous casting machine. In addition, the TPQC system is currently being implemented by the No. 3 continuous casting machine.
easily make data-based decisions
Digital Assistant Function and Statistical Process Control are used to determine which measures can bring the most significant improvements. The system is connected to the business intelligence platform, which can easily and quickly realize data visualization. This can help operators make data-based decisions quickly — even during production. The integration of TPQC with the data analysis platform allows it to discover patterns in recoded production data, thereby gaining insight into the production process.
TPQC is an integral part of Primetals Technology's full-process process optimization (TPO) solution. The program is used by steel companies around the world to achieve excellent operations across the entire production chain.
continues long-term cooperation
Primetals Technology and Aoganglian Steel Company have been working for more than 25 years at the Donavitz plant. As one of the subsidiary companies of Aoganglian Steel Company, a leading steel and technology group, Donavitz Factory produces high-quality steel products according to the special requirements of its customers. Located in Loeben, the Donavitz plant of Aoganglian Steel Company adopts a mature LD converter production route (sintering - blast furnace iron smelting - iron desulfurization - LD converter smelting - secondary metallurgy - continuous casting) and produces about 1.6 million tons of high-quality crude steel every year.
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