Russian steel maker MMK Group’s MMK-METIZ Magnitogorsk Hardware and Calibration Plant is leveraging digitalization by creating digital twins and an interactive dispatching platform. Digital twins are designed for the rope stabilization line, thermo levelling unit No 1 and a complex of drawing mills comprising of 3 pieces of equipment. In the future, it is planned to cover also two cable cars. The system allows monitoring the condition of the equipment and its utilization and remote technological control. The result of its implementation was an increase in labour productivity and the quality of management decisions.Another direction is the digitalization of labour protection systems using machine vision technologies. Cameras record the entry of workers into hazardous production areas, after which the personnel are alerted. Such a system has been implemented on the line of calibrated rolled products. It helps prevent accidents and injuries online and improves compliance with safety standards.Another promising area is the robotization of business processes using RPA software robotization technology. This project was implemented jointly with the Center for Robotics Technologies Next, based on the basis of MMK-Informservice. Within the framework of the pilot project, the specialists implemented the process “Preparation of documents for the registration of temporary movements of employees and the combination of professions (positions)”. The work was carried out in stages, including procedures for synchronizing data in accounting systems, and allowed to get rid of the manual labor of employees of the Personnel Department.The digitalization program for 2021 provides for further work on the creation of digital twins, the use of machine vision technologies and software robotization. Machine vision is planned to be used to control technological processes, for example, the quality of copper-bonded wire coating in steel wire production. The system will allow analyzing the quality of the surface of copper-plated wire in the flow and signaling the operator about rejects and technology violations.
Russian steel maker MMK Group’s MMK-METIZ Magnitogorsk Hardware and Calibration Plant is leveraging digitalization by creating digital twins and an interactive dispatching platform. Digital twins are designed for the rope stabilization line, thermo levelling unit No 1 and a complex of drawing mills comprising of 3 pieces of equipment. In the future, it is planned to cover also two cable cars. The system allows monitoring the condition of the equipment and its utilization and remote technological control. The result of its implementation was an increase in labour productivity and the quality of management decisions.Another direction is the digitalization of labour protection systems using machine vision technologies. Cameras record the entry of workers into hazardous production areas, after which the personnel are alerted. Such a system has been implemented on the line of calibrated rolled products. It helps prevent accidents and injuries online and improves compliance with safety standards.Another promising area is the robotization of business processes using RPA software robotization technology. This project was implemented jointly with the Center for Robotics Technologies Next, based on the basis of MMK-Informservice. Within the framework of the pilot project, the specialists implemented the process “Preparation of documents for the registration of temporary movements of employees and the combination of professions (positions)”. The work was carried out in stages, including procedures for synchronizing data in accounting systems, and allowed to get rid of the manual labor of employees of the Personnel Department.The digitalization program for 2021 provides for further work on the creation of digital twins, the use of machine vision technologies and software robotization. Machine vision is planned to be used to control technological processes, for example, the quality of copper-bonded wire coating in steel wire production. The system will allow analyzing the quality of the surface of copper-plated wire in the flow and signaling the operator about rejects and technology violations.
