[Ferro-Alloys.com]

  Ansteel Group Corporation Ltd. reported that with the full support of China Mobile and ZTE, the "5G Industrial Network + Intelligent Steelmaking" independently developed by the company has been industrialized in Steelmaking Plant of Ansteel, which will contribute to the transformation and upgrading of Angang Group.

  The process of iron and steel production is complex. The process of iron and steel smelting involves dynamic adjustment of models and parameters, and real-time control of on-site equipment. Based on highly reliable network communication and big data analysis and judgment technology, it is necessary to comprehensively control the output, quality and cost of hot metal pretreatment, converter, refining and other smelting processes, which puts forward high requirements for network bandwidth and speed. The application of "5G Industrial Network + Intelligent Steelmaking " in Ansteel Group has successfully solved this problem.

  Ansteel Information Industry Company has rich technical experience in steelmaking converter, refining, continuous casting and other production processes, and has a number of patented technologies. The company also has an independent data center "refined steel cloud", which provides a high-speed, stable, low-cost and safe cloud computing platform for the construction of intelligent steelmaking system. China Mobile has the 4.9GHz band 5G industrial Internet license issued by the state, and has deployed the fastest and safest industrial Internet in the plant area of Ansteel Group; ZTE has the ability to develop 5G communication module, and cooperates with Ansteel Group in the development and application of 5g communication module.

  It is understood that after the "5G Industrial Network + Intelligent Steelmaking" was put into operation, the era of manual data entry came to an end, and the oxygen lance, sublance and feeding operations were automated. Through 5G and cloud computing, the original detection and control equipment are linked together, as if equipped with "eyes" and "brain", which can intelligently and autonomously carry out steel-making operation; the feeding system does not need to calculate, weigh and add materials to the converter one by one. At the end of smelting, the intelligent model will display the prediction results in real time and automatically control the end of smelting.

  Zhai Baopeng, a technical expert of Angang information industry company, told the reporter:

  In Ansteel Group, the traditional steelmaking version 1.0 is the basic process automation that requires machine side operation, single machine PLC control and manual decision-making; steelmaking version 2.0 realizes "5G Industrial Network + Intelligent Steelmaking", which has independent intellectual property rights and breaks foreign monopoly. The goal of steelmaking version 3.0 is to realize data-driven production, flexible manufacturing and optimal allocation of production resources. In the near future, Ansteel Group will stride forward to steelmaking version 3.0.

  It is reported that "5G Industrial Network + Intelligent Steelmaking" won the 2020 national app excellent solution award not long ago.

• [Editor:Catherine Ren]