Baowu Group Shaogang’s intelligent integrated control centre

—— Achieving highly-efficient production co-ordination and low-cost ironmaking

Shaogang’s intelligent integrated control centre went operational earlier this year.

It’s the steel world’s first for the centralised and substantial application of the internet of things, mobile internet, big data and cloud computing.

The centre has achieved centralised online control of the upstream-blast furnace, thus creating a new model for ironmaking production.

This is the first step towards achieving a remote, mass and centralised control, big data-based decision-making and borderless coordination for the upstream ironmaking and energy systems.

Online working results show that this part of the centre has achieved highly-efficient production co-ordination and reduced the cost of ironmaking.

The centre is now being developed to take over centralised control of the plant’s steelmaking and rolling.

CISDI’s intelligent integrated control platform has been installed as islands in a 1,600-square metre area. Over 100 big data-based intelligent models have been integrated on that platform.

Since installation, over 300,000 points of data have been acquired from the site and have been analysed and processed intelligently.

Centralised control is doing the task of over 400 manual operators, more than 40 pulpits and control rooms, over 30 systems and 8 major procedures of upstream ironmaking and energy media.

Now that 400 operators no longer have to work in hazardous sites, Shaogang’s operation model has been transformed. Work areas have been reduced by 60 per cent and labour productivity has increased by 40 per cent.

Since startup of the control centre earlier this year, Shaogang has seen a stable, tangible improvement of cost effectiveness and output.

A cost saving of $3.52 per tonne of hot metal has been made and daily output has increased by 500 tonnes, according to production data.

A $28 million profit by 2019 is predicted.

A comparison table below shows how Shaogang’s production mode has improved:

The Shaogang intelligent integrated control centre is configured as islands and functions as a mass, centralised control

The integrated intelligent control platform developed by CISDI for Shaogang