On November 6, at the China International Import Expo, ABB released intelligent manufacturing solutions for the steel and non-ferrous metals industry, from the “art” industry to the “number” industry, to help users in the steel and non-ferrous metals industry accelerate the realization of high-quality development and green low-carbon transformation.

01Hundreds of years of accumulation, strive to create “intelligent” program

ABB has been working in the steel and non-ferrous metal industry for more than 100 years, and has provided electrical and automation control system solutions for large domestic steel enterprises since the 1980s. After 100 years of industry experience and technology accumulation, ABB has been able to provide complete electrification, automation and intelligent manufacturing solutions, and has provided more than 3,000 sets of technical solutions to steel and non-ferrous metal manufacturers around the world.

When talking about the background and original intention of today’s release of intelligent manufacturing solutions for the steel and non-ferrous metals industry, Jiang Haibo, head of North Asia and China of ABB’s steel and non-ferrous metals business, said that ABB deeply understands that the steel and non-ferrous metals industry has been under great pressure in recent years, on the one hand, the rise in raw material prices, the excess of low-end capacity and the shortage of high-end products, on the other hand, Environmental protection, low-carbon and other requirements are becoming more and more stringent, and enterprises need to transform and upgrade through digital and intelligent technology. However, in the process of digital transformation in these industries, it is difficult to find suitable and professional solution providers, and many cases are superficial, digital for digital purposes, and do not really realize the value of digital transformation.

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Therefore, based on deep OT accumulation, rich ET (engineering technology) experience and advanced IT technology, ABB has launched intelligent manufacturing solutions for the steel and non-ferrous metal industries to help enterprises save energy and reduce carbon, improve quality and efficiency, and make digital intelligent transformation truly create value.

02From “art” to “number”, let data generate value

As a typical process automation industry, steel and non-ferrous metal industry enterprises have a high level of automation, continuous production lines. In order to further optimize the production process and achieve higher quality development, the next step needs to adopt digital and intelligent technology, so that the “data” in all aspects of production can produce value, so as to achieve intelligent decision-making and intelligent production.

At this press conference, Deng Bo, head of R&D in North Asia and China of ABB Steel and non-ferrous metals business, said that ABB intelligent manufacturing solutions for steel and non-ferrous metals industry integrate basic process automation solutions, intelligent centralized control operation platform and big data analysis platform in one, which can carry out efficient collaborative centralized control management for single/productive lines. Realize process control, process optimization, visualization, remote diagnosis, etc., and help the steel and non-ferrous metal industry become more intelligent, efficient, energy-saving, safe and reliable with professional, intensive and intelligent digital services.

The big data analysis platform is the core of the entire intelligent manufacturing solution, which acts on data in every link of the industrial manufacturing process, and uses data intelligent analysis to improve the decision-making level of enterprises. Among them, the process module can analyze and identify high-quality products of different dimensions from massive data to help enterprises quickly find “golden volume” products; The equipment module comprehensively captures the operating data of the equipment, monitors the operating status of the equipment, finds problems in time and gives early warning; The production module monitors and monitors the production status of the production line to provide comprehensive production line summary information for the operator; The quality module comprehensively evaluates the performance of each sub-process and key process indicators of the whole process of product production, and carries out quality assessment, processing backtracking and quality prediction; The energy module carefully monitors the energy consumption level of the production line to help save energy and reduce emissions.

Safety, wisdom and sustainability are the future of the entire steel and non-ferrous metal industry. With systematic control and deep understanding of the entire production process, ABB follows the development trend and user needs of China’s steel industry and launches intelligent manufacturing solutions that integrate integrated management and control, digital twin, image recognition, big data analysis and artificial intelligence technology. Will help China’s steel and non-ferrous metal enterprises to achieve green, digital, intelligent high-quality sustainable development as soon as possible.