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Automation & Digitalization

Scrap Type Monitor

Automated Scrap Identification and Classification for Enhanced Steel Production

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Enhancing Scrap Yard Efficiency with Optical Solutions

The Scrap Type Monitor is a fully automated system designed to identify and classify scrap, enhancing scrap yard management in steel plants. Steel producers often encounter challenges in maintaining consistent production quality and efficient material handling. This system addresses these issues by enhancing product quality, reducing incorrect scrap mixtures, and optimizing logistics. It ensures precise scrap quality tracking during handling and supports yard upgrades with its optical solution.

The Scrap Type Monitor offers a comprehensive optical solution for steel producers and scrap yard supervisors aiming to optimize their scrap yard operations. By comparing actual scrap loaded into chutes or baskets with recipe data, it ensures precise alignment with production requirements. The optical solution enables upgrades to existing scrap yards, facilitating seamless integration and enhanced efficiency. This system supports personnel in avoiding incorrect scrap mixtures, thus reducing potential problems with final steel analysis. By minimizing quality downgrades due to scrap mismatches, it ensures increased and reproducible production quality. The Scrap Type Monitor also enhances the (un)loading procedure, making it more efficient and supporting automation-driven claim management. This ensures accurate and efficient material handling, achieving consistent product quality, and optimizing logistics and supply chain processes.

Benefits of the Scrap Type Monitor

  • Increases production quality and consistency
  • Reduces incorrect preparation of scrap mixtures
  • Minimizes quality downgrades due to scrap mismatches
  • Optimizes (un)loading procedures for greater efficiency
  • Supports automation-driven claim management
  • Enhances material handling accuracy and efficiency
  • Facilitates upgrades to existing scrap yards with optical solutions
  • Strengthens logistics and supply chain optimization

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