Increasing Safety, Operation Efficiency and Process Reliability: Implementation of Robotized Tundish Operations at Ternium Brasil

摘要

Industrial robots are being used in the automotive industry for many years now, but so far, they are only rarely being implemented in the harsh environment of a steel plant. One major issue has always been the adaption of industrial robots and its auxiliary systems like magazines or tools to this challenging environment in order to obtain the reliability requested by the customer. However, in the last ten years more and more robot systems, which perform sampling-, measurement- and handling tasks at the oxygen steelmaking-, electrical furnace- and continuous casting area were successfully installed worldwide.