"ArcelorMittal Krivoy Rog" has created a mobile monitoring system and equipment diagnostics
"ArcelorMittal Krivoy Rog" is one of the first in Ukraine implemented a mobile system for monitoring the technical condition of production equipment.
As reported in the press service of the plant, the company bought 29 portable tracking devices, investing in the project, about 1 million hryvnias. The system enables quick identification of technical anomalies and resolve them – avoid emergency shutdowns and, consequently, financial losses.
For primary diagnostic equipment (regular inspections) the company created a mobile inspection. The staff is equipped with smart Zebra devices TC-70 with infrared barcode scanner, communicators Caterpillar S-60 thermal imaging camera for temperature monitoring. Also this week received portable refrigerators (so-called vibrancy) for operational diagnostics.
SAP PM automatically generate staff tasks inspection of equipment and loads them on pocket personal computers (PDA). With their help the reliability engineers or workers inspect the units that are marked with a barcode. After scanning them on the PDA opens a specific task to make the current measurement. We are talking about quantitative and qualitative parameters of wear, the integrity, the presence or absence of lubrication, vibration, temperature, electrical circuits, etc. of Specific values the staff gets with the help of FLIR thermal imaging cameras (embedded in the Caterpillar S-60), pyrometers and other measuring instruments.
With a PDA, the data is transmitted via Wi-Fi to SAP PM, which reflects the range of values for each indicator. If the measurements fall outside the acceptable range (for example, from 40 to 60 degrees in temperature), the system automatically creates a signal that is necessary to resolve the inconsistency. In addition, the monitoring data promptly be given to the staff responsible for the specific equipment. And the division managers can see daily reports about the technical condition of the units and the measures taken.
today the mobile inspection is carried out in all three rolling mills (six mills), the blooming, the BOF shop (at continuous casting machine № 1), blast furnace No. 2 (DP-9), coke-oven shop No. 1 (coke-oven batteries Nos. 5, 6), the sintering plant No. 3. Coverage of units gradually increases. Over time, inspections will be performed on new objects – machines, continuous casting No. 2, 3 and reconstructed small-section mill No. 250-4.
The "ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih" announced that the next step will be the creation of automated system of monitoring of technical condition of equipment in real-time and planning their maintenance on the basis of the prediction of deterioration.