clt: heat management

The current scenario forces us to produce metals in an increasingly competitive and sustainable way. To do this we need detailed production, heat and consumption figures that travel at the same rate as that at which we melt the metal and are integrated and promptly available.

The MILL+ suite meets this requirement by computerizing  the processes and flows of all companies that produce unfinished or finished products made from scrap, such as steel mills, aluminium, brass, copper and cast-iron foundries, or ones that transform coils, strips, sheets and billets, such as rolling mills, pipe mills and wire-drawing mills.

CLTis theMILL+ suite’s FRAMEWORK for planning, tracking, energy and raw material consumption, process data, testing and analysis of all the heats produced, in view of increasing efficiency and decreasing costs.

• Heat planning based on sales orders and specifications.

• Scrap bucket preparation management at the furnaces, with weighing of each type of scrap load to determine exact stock levels.

• Optimisation of ferroalloy furnace charges at minimum cost to correct out-of-tolerance materials.

• Real-time tracking of each heat and automatic recording of the specifications, chemical analyses, consumption, notes, raw materials, plant downtimes and numerous other details.

• Continuous casting management.

• Casting pit preparation management, with programming and final data reporting for materials at all positions (refractory materials, cooling beds, counter-beds).

• Availability of advanced systems for the data analysis log file, allowing continuous optimisation and significant cost reduction.

• Real-time stock outflows of scrap and ferroalloys in the quantities actually used.

• Real-time trasmission to the Management System of final figures for each heat, allowing exact allocation of costs of actual, not standard, consumptions per heat.

• Complete configurability of master records, heat and quality control specifications and process setpoints.