Thanks to this, the Volgograd enterprise has provided the opportunity to create a unified system for metal path traceability in divisions, increasing the efficiency of the technological process and resource management.
Photo: "Red October".
The integration of weighing modules at a common control post started in 2024 as a pilot project in the hot rolling mill 1000/850/630 department of the large-grade crimping workshop (OCC). The new system allows the weigher to control three scales without unnecessary movements around the workshop – from one room, on which blanks are weighed in the OKC for further processing.
According to Kirill Nozdrovsky, deputy head of the Department of Automated process control systems, the company has automated the process of transmitting data to a common control post from three weighing modules, after weighing, the mass value is displayed in special factory programs.
Next, the technology was implemented in a sheet-rolling workshop. The division also combined three scales, which weigh the slabs coming from the OKC, rolled sheets and technological trimmings from mill 2000.
The technology optimizes the work of the weighers, the workshop specialists said.
"Thanks to surveillance cameras, all processes on the scales are displayed on a single monitor. The operator solves work issues with colleagues remotely via radio communication. His task is to check all the data and confirm the completion of the form in the program."Metal rolling finishing shop. Photo: "Red October".
Krasny Oktyabr Corporation announces itself as one of the largest suppliers of metal to enterprises in the automotive industry, aviation, oil and gas production and chemical industries, nuclear energy, chemical, petroleum, energy and transport engineering, non-ferrous metallurgy and agriculture.
Krasny Oktyabrya's production facilities allow the company to produce up to 500,000 tons of liquid steel per year, up to 370,000 tons of long products, and 140,000 tons of rolled products.
