First Steps Toward the Fully Automated Steel Mill: From the Planning of Ladles to the Transport

摘要

The central logistics in a steel mill revolves around the subject "material transport". This includes the hot metal ladle and the steel ladle transport. The present paper deals with the increase in the automation level around ladle transport from automatic scheduling, automatic maintenance planning up to automatic crane transport and its legal requirements. A first approach is outlined that pursues the goal of a "fully automated steel mill" focused on steel ladles.