Australian Manufacturing reported that steel processor and distribution company Orrcon Steel has launched a plan to harness AI and robotics, announcing major data and digital twins’ projects in partnership with Queensland industry centre Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing Hub. Orrcon Steel, which employs 750 employees at sites in Brisbane and Salisbury and O’Sullivan Beach in Adelaide, recently renewed their platinum membership with the non-profit advanced manufacturing group Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing Hub.The key focus areas of the ARM Hub partnership was Orrcon’s slitter equipment which takes 26-tonne steel coils and slits the steel into the required width, and then shapes that into a tube. ARM Hub experts used AI to identify the most effective means of maximising the performance of the slitter, in terms of yield optimisation, run speed, labour productivity, waste minimisation and workforce safety.In another innovative project, a QUT data science expert is analysing 10-years’ worth of dispatch and production data to identify ways of optimising the production schedule of Orrcon’s three tube mills running at their Salisbury site.
Australian Manufacturing reported that steel processor and distribution company Orrcon Steel has launched a plan to harness AI and robotics, announcing major data and digital twins’ projects in partnership with Queensland industry centre Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing Hub. Orrcon Steel, which employs 750 employees at sites in Brisbane and Salisbury and O’Sullivan Beach in Adelaide, recently renewed their platinum membership with the non-profit advanced manufacturing group Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing Hub.The key focus areas of the ARM Hub partnership was Orrcon’s slitter equipment which takes 26-tonne steel coils and slits the steel into the required width, and then shapes that into a tube. ARM Hub experts used AI to identify the most effective means of maximising the performance of the slitter, in terms of yield optimisation, run speed, labour productivity, waste minimisation and workforce safety.In another innovative project, a QUT data science expert is analysing 10-years’ worth of dispatch and production data to identify ways of optimising the production schedule of Orrcon’s three tube mills running at their Salisbury site.
