Iron & Steel
Most important plants or single machine automations
Riva Acciai
Ilva Taranto
Automatic Cutting Line
Automation of cutting line for flat laminate, mainly composed by an uncoiler machine, side-trimmer, looper, double roll flattener (Hallden shear and flattener, Voss precision roll flattener), automatic oiling of sheets with fast valves Skinner and final piling up of sheets in different stacks.
PLC Siemens S7-400,
Simoreg DC Master Drives,
SCADA supervision: Siemens WinCC.
Customer: Siemens SpA – Milan
Riva Acciai
SAM Neuves Maisons
(Nancy – France)
Software development, electrical cabinet tests, electrical and software
commissioning with start-up, inverter tuning and parametrization
for travelling crane (35 tons).
Committente: Ansaldo Reggiane srl
Riva Acciai
Ilva Novi L. (AL)
Revamping CAPL
PLC Software revamping for movement, switching and displacement of
coils at the exit zone of the
Continuous Anneal Process Line (CAPL)
Previous PLC system:
Various Siemens S5-135U
New PLC system: Siemens S7-400 + distributed peripherals ET200x
Customer: Siemens SpA
Cogne Acciai Speciali (Aosta)
Pickling of steel wire rod
Pickling plant for steel wire rods
by means of Distributed Control System (Siemens PCS7) handling
7 overhead traveling cranes which automatically carry wire rods
through acid and washing tanks,
washing cars,
loading and
unloading cars.
PLC Siemens S7-400 + WinCC,
(PCS7 system).
Customer: Siemens SpA – Milan
Cogne Acciai Speciali (Aosta)
Reversible “DUO” Roughing stand
Reversible DUO Roughing stand
for special steel rolling mill by means of Siemens PLC and
Ethernet/Profibus networks (Optical Fibre).
PLC Siemens (various types),
Profibus, Ethernet networks for Decentralized Peripherals
and other devices.
Customer: Ceda Danieli SpA – Udine
Cogne Acciai Speciali (Aosta)
Restore of Rolling Mill
Revamping and restore of a rolling mill
damaged by a flood (October 2000): Electrical engineering design of
interconnection between existing PLC cabinets for rolling mill
control and new motor drive cabinets equipped with ET200M
stations.
Electrical engineering design and
software development of
these cabinets.
Electrical testing and commissioning. Restarting of various types of Siemens PLC for rolling mill control.
Customer: Siemens SpA – Milan
Cogne Acciai Speciali (Aosta)
Revamping Remelter ESR
Revamping Electro-Slag Remelter
(ESR) with PLC S7-300 and supervisory WinCC station.
PLC Siemens S7-300 + WinCC,
Customer: Siemens SpA – Milan
Cogne Acciai Speciali (Aosta)
Revamping AOD Furnace
Revamping: on-site planning,
electrical engineering design,
software development and commissioning for alloys loading in the steel converter
AOD (Argon-Oxygen Decarburization).
PLC Siemens S7.
Customer: Siemens SpA – Milano
Cogne Acciai Speciali (Aosta)
Revamping Steel Hammerer
Revamping: on-site planning,
electrical engineering design of cabinet
and interconnection with
existing cable lines,
software development and commissioning of a steel hammerer.
PLC Siemens
Customer: Siemens SpA – Milano
Cogne Acciai Speciali (Aosta)
Revamping Press 2000 tons
Revamping: on-site planning,
electrical engineering design of cabinet
and interconnection with
existing cable lines,
software development and
commissioning of
the DEMAG Press 2000 tons.
PLC Siemens
Customer: Siemens SpA – Milano
Cogne Acciai Speciali (Aosta)
Monitoring and Control of Methane distribution in the whole factory.
Remote Control with distributed
Fail Safe Control System to manage Methane Gas piping distribution
inside of the factory.
Global Supervision by means of
Ethernet F.O. redundant network
and series of HMIs,
detection of gas leaks and countermeasures
PLC Siemens S7-F.
HMI / SCADA: Siemens WinCC.
Customer: Siemens SpA – Milano
DAM Steel – Miskolc (Ungheria)
Steel rods testing machine
Foerster
Automation System for
testing machine of steel rods (Foerster).
Electrical engineering design of cabinets
and automation of production line by means of PLC Siemens S7-400
and Siemens WinCC HMI system.
Supply of Power Center Cabinets,
MCC, Automation Center and
local control pulpits
DAM Steel – Miskolc (Ungheria)
Wire rod wrapper.
Software for a wire-rod wrapper
wobbling machine, by means of a PLC Siemens
PLC: Siemens S7
Gerdau AZA – Santiago (Chile)
Walking-beam heating furnace
PLC Controlling software
and HMI / SCADA applications
development and
commissioning for thermoregulation and billet handling in one
walking-beam heating furnace.
PLC Siemens S7-400.
HMI / SCADA: Intellution FIX.
Customer: Siemens SpA /
Bendotti (Bergamo – Italy)
Riva Acciai – Hellenic Steel
Thessaloniki (Greece)
Pickling continuous line
Revamping: PLC software
and supervision stations
for the entry and exit areas
of the continuous pickling line of coils.
PLC: General Electric
SCADA: Cimplicity
Riva Acciai
Ilva Taranto
Coke plant fumes recovery
by means of SOPRECO® system.
Software PLC + SCADA for fumes recovery in the coking plant, by means of the SOPRECO® system suction
(Single-Oven-PREssure-COntrol),
by Paul Wurth
PLC + SCADA: Rockwell / FactoryTalk
Customer: Siemens SpA – Paul Wurth
Bhushan Steel
Angul, Orissa (India)
Coke plant fumes recovery
by means of SOPRECO® system
Software PLC + SCADA for fumes recovery in the coking plant, by means of the SOPRECO® system suction
(Single-Oven-PREssure-COntrol),
by Paul Wurth
PLC Siemens S7-300.
HMI / SCADA: Siemens WinCC.
Customer: Paul Wurth – Genova
Bhushan Steel
Angul, Orissa (India)
Coke plant: added HCBC machine
(Hot Coke Bucket Car)
Software modifications for the
Implementation of HCBC New Car
in existing Quenching Loco Automation, Unloading Coke Oven batteries.
PLC / HMI: Siemens S7 + WinCC
Committente: Paul Wurth – Genova
Arvedi Group – Riva Trigoso (Genoa)
Revamping of
network connections and
local control system for
cold rolling mill (20 rolls),
cabinets and command pulpits.
PLC / HMI: Siemens
Committente: Siemens SpA – Milano