CISDI has created the largest full-process Smart Factory of its kind for Rizhao Steel in China’s Shandong Province.

The Smart Factory covers more production lines than any other of its kind. Rizhao’s ironmaking and upstream procedures are controlled via a digital control centre and smart online applications.

The CISDigital® industrial internet platform creates a supremely integrated framework, encompassing ironmaking and its upstream, plus steelmaking, continuous casting and rolling, management and control sections.

The plant’s production, operations and management are accommodated at the centre, which achieves the following tech breakthroughs:

✧        China’s largest and most complicated material tracking system has been created. It has optimised the stockyard’s raw material logistics management and lays a solid foundation for upstream ironmaking’s refined production management.

✧        Sectoral advanced scheduling tech is enabling smart decision-making for steelmaking, casting, rolling and cold-state delivery scheduling and ensuring accurate product quality control.

✧        A smart energy scheduling model is coupled with power and gas production and consumption. It is China’s first closed-loop control model for coal and gas-fired power generation and gas holder units. It implements real-time tracking and analysis of energy consumption and carbon emissions and footprints throughout the production process, boosting Rizhao Steel’s consistent results in reducing energy conservation and emissions, and sustaining its green and low-carbon development.

✧        A smart equipment management system has been established to act on smart spot-checking and automatic diagnosis. It achieves transparent, efficient management and smart operation of equipment where a heavy-duty, intensified production must be handled.

After the successful launch of the first applications, CISDI and Rizhao Steel will be advancing the Smart Factory to new levels.

The launch of the upstream-ironmaking central control centre at Rizhao Steel signifies a new achievement borne from CISDI and Rizhao Steel’s long-term cooperation

The smart energy control centre at Rizhao Steel, built by CISDI