(p233) Storage improvement by intelligent warehouse logistics at ArcelorMittal Eisenhüttenstadt

摘要

Case story: Steel producer ArcelorMittal Eisenhüttenstadt GmbH uses Primetals Technologie's new storagelogistics system in its finishing department. The warehouse logistics system now provides the company with aprecise picture of its stock at all times and the over 40,000 slabs that pass through the slab storage each year. Itnot only enhances the composition of the stacks of slabs, but also automates logging of manual restackingoperations. The solution thus improves workflows and simplifies stock control. Cycle times have also been reducedbecause the slabs can be fed to the rolling mills at a higher temperature.The expandable, modular system is based on the Siemens Simatic IT and Primetals Technologies' IT4METALSLogistics product platform. It provides a large number of organizational and commercial metrics in the form of cleargraphics and tabular evaluations. For example, it can show how many crane movements have been made per shiftfor any category of slab, so that the time and cost for each operation can be calculated exactly.