Plug In "Wisdom Wings" For Steel Production ——Focus Shandong Group

Just click the button, no one intervenes in the whole process of steelmaking; just press a touch on the touch screen, the crane will be equipped with a "virtual stewardess" driverless; just set the program, the number-spraying robot can replace people in high temperature Automatic coding in radiation environment... Can you imagine this is the real scene of the production line of Shangang Group?
In the past two years, Shandong Iron and Steel Group has seized the great opportunity of Shandong as a national pilot province for structural adjustment of the iron and steel industry and a national comprehensive pilot area for the transformation of new and old kinetic energy. The integration of "three modernizations" focuses on all business formats and seizes the C position of intelligent manufacturing. The "Shandong Steel Plan" is integrated into the development plan of Shandong Province's advanced steel manufacturing industry base, and a number of major projects are included in the Shandong Province's new and old kinetic energy conversion key project library. After continuous efforts, Shandong Iron and Steel Group's role as a leader and vanguard in the structural adjustment of the steel industry in Shandong Province and the conversion of old and new kinetic energy has become more and more obvious.
Implant "smart core" for traditional equipment
10 years ago, Laigang Steel Works, a subsidiary of Shandong Iron and Steel Group, pioneered the "one-button steelmaking" model in the country. In 2018, it built the first domestically intelligent production line for the whole process of steelmaking, which only requires the operator to click the mouse. The converter starts to automatically operate and smelt, and the system can automatically adjust the operating parameters according to the actual situation, and the whole process does not require manual operation. Gone are the days of relying on eye observation and experience to make steel. "The equipment seems to have a 'smart core', which not only has the ability to operate autonomously, but also self-improvement and perfection." Fang Gang with nearly 30 years of work experience Gonglan Junsheng sighed with emotion: "Technology has advanced, and my 'unique skill' has no place to use." It took 10 years for Shandong Iron and Steel Co., Ltd. Laiwu Branch to enter a new stage of intelligent steelmaking, and Shandong Iron and Steel Group's intelligent steelmaking level has advanced. in the forefront of the country.
Improving traditional equipment with new technologies and realizing the effective integration of automation, digitization and intelligence is the constant pursuit of Shandong Iron and Steel Group. The Laiwu branch has achieved the interconnection of all things based on the Internet of Things technology by removing their independent "information islands", so that the weighbridge houses scattered in various production lines have achieved "unattended" sunlight metering with no human intervention in the whole process. Laiwu Branch of Shandong Iron & Steel Co., Ltd.'s digital workshop for intelligent rolling of wide and heavy plates has been included in the pilot demonstration project of intelligent manufacturing in Shandong Province. Intelligent construction of key systems such as intelligent warehouse management and intelligent monitoring of the status of key equipment across the line, to build intelligent application architectures such as intelligent perception, human-machine collaboration, forecasting and early warning, and scientific decision-making, to realize the digitization, modeling and visualization of production processes, and realize business Cross-platform, cross-post collaborative communication connects the "information islands" that appear in the daily work of different systems and personnel in different positions, achieving seamless connection and improved efficiency. The production line intelligent board assembly system independently developed by Shandong Iron and Steel realizes the automatic control of the board assembly process, and the efficiency of manual and automatic board assembly is a hundred times different.
On December 10, 2018, at the intelligent driving test site jointly developed by Shanxin Software and Luzhong Iron and Steel Logistics, Shanshan Iron and Steel R&D personnel tapped on the touch screen, and the huge driving vehicle began to automatically load and unload the truck. bell, all the coils were placed firmly in the designated positions. The intelligent driving system is equivalent to equipping the crane with a "virtual stewardess". It comprehensively utilizes technologies such as laser scanning imaging, ranging, anti-shake, anti-collision, QR code generation, code scanning and analysis with handheld terminals, and industrial wireless communication. There are cranes for upgrading and transformation. Through the seamless connection between the storage area management system and the crane automation system, the cranes are not only unmanned in unloading and loading, but also a series of operations such as stacking and storage can be automated and intelligent. .
A series of seemingly impossible "unmanned dreams" are gradually becoming reality at Shansteel through intelligent means. In August 2018, the first spraying robot developed by Shanxin Software was applied to the No. 4 slab continuous casting production line of the Laiwu Branch of Shanxi Iron and Steel Co., Ltd. The technical director of the factory said: "Since the robot was put into use, the error rate of slab spray number information has dropped from 8% to 0, which ended the history of operators manually spraying code in a high-temperature radiation environment, and achieved speed-up, It has a good effect of improving quality, reducing consumption and ensuring safety." Shangang Group has carried out research and development on a number of intelligent equipment topics such as "Robot Application Technology Research and Development", "Robot Cluster Control Research and Development", and "Research and Application of Robotic Motion Based on Machine Vision". At the same time, breakthroughs have been made in the research and development of the unmanned stockyard control system, and the field test of 3D imaging, database and interface coordination operation has been completed, and the intelligent remote operation and maintenance platform has also been put into use in production lines such as broadband and thick plates.
Connect "neurons" to new production lines
The "greatest handwriting" of Shandong Iron and Steel's intelligent manufacturing appeared in the Rizhao Iron and Steel Boutique Base. Rizhao Company is a Linhai-Linggang steel production line approved by the state, carrying the major mission of Shandong iron and steel industry structural adjustment. They have implemented management process creation and informatization top-level design from the early stage of construction, and in May 2015 proposed the concept of building an "intelligent dream factory". At present, only 14.25 billion yuan has been invested in automated production equipment, and 240 million yuan has been invested in software and hardware such as computer room, network, monitoring, and metering for informatization and intelligent applications. 138 advanced and mature technologies at home and abroad have been adopted or integrated, and ERP has been built successively. 8 core information systems including production and sales, intelligent collaborative control center, etc., developed 6088 human-computer interaction interfaces, covering production, procurement, sales, finance and other management and business processes, and connected "neurons" to all business segments of the entire production line ”, so that production intelligence, equipment intelligence, energy management intelligence, and supply chain intelligence are fully implemented.
On the fifth day of the Lunar New Year this year, Liu Shumin, deputy manager of the production department of Laigang Green Construction International Company, who lives in Henan, released a group of nine pictures of information on the circle of friends. The integrated construction project of Henan Ruzhou National Wetland Park undertaken by them , has been highly recognized by the local people and government departments. Shandong Iron and Steel is the only prefabricated construction enterprise in the national steel industry that not only manufactures iron and steel products, but also has a deep processing base for iron and steel products, and also has high qualifications, full process and independent construction technology system. They successively invested 150 million yuan to build the country's largest production base for medium and low-speed maglev rails, and became the first rail-arrangement manufacturing enterprise for Beijing's first medium and low-speed maglev lines. Laigang Construction Company, which relies on H-beam deep processing, invested nearly 100 million yuan last year to build the largest integrated, intelligent and automated prefabricated building production line in Jiangbei. It truly realizes modular online production and factory assembly. Laiwu Steel has become one of the first batch of prefabricated construction industry bases in the country recognized by the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development.
Intelligent manufacturing has created invisible wings for Shangang products, and the market competitiveness and efficiency of products have been greatly improved. Released by the Metallurgical Industry Planning and Research Institute, the comprehensive competitiveness rating of Shandong Iron and Steel Group has jumped from A in 2017 to A+, and its products have successfully entered BMW, China FAW, Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge, Russia's Yamal Project, Shell Oil, AGPP, etc. Well-known enterprises and projects, the prefabricated buildings made by Shangang have been exported to more than 20 countries and regions such as the United States, Japan, and Australia.