ArcelorMittal contracts SMS group for hot strip mill modernisation at Dunkirk

摘要

Modernisation will be implemented in three steps. PCFC? will be installed as early as at the end of 2017 and operate in parallel with the existing control system. This so-called shadow mode makes it possible to check all functions of the PCFC?, the inter-play with the automation environment, and allows adaptation to the products of ArcelorMittal Dunkirk. In the end, this way of proceeding guarantees a smooth start-up of the new system. This start-up of the PCFC? will take place after the installation of the new bending and shifting systems in the first four stands during the annual shutdown scheduled for August 2018. The modernisation of stands F5 to F7 will follow one year later.