SvMet KP Software Technologies First Successful Project in China
SvMet KP Software Technologies First Successful Project in China
SvMet KP Software Technologies Successfully Implements for the first time his New Version of the SIFC Software Tool at the Jiangsu Shagang Group Co., Ltd (Now Zhangjiagang Sheen Faith Steel Co. LTD), one of the biggest and most competitive steelmakers in China and world wide
Brief History
SvMet Engineering has given to STZ Technologies the task of developing a software tool for its SIFC Process.
By February of 2007, STZ Software Technologies (the software development branch of SvMet) delivered the first release of the base platform of his newest and advanced version of its SIFC Steelmaker Software Tool.
By April 2007, the software platform was completely ready to achieve new incoming challenges according to customer’s needs and resources.
In July 2007, SvMet Engineering was called by the Jiangsu Shagang Group Co., Ltd (Now Zhangjiagang Sheen Faith Steel Co. LTD) to achieve a specific qualification by its customer BEKAERT for Tire Cord Steel.
For the incoming challenge SvMet Engineering applied his proprietary process SIFC and deployed it with his “SIFC Steelmaker Software Tool” in order to achieve the goals of the project.
Some examples of the software system screens.
After SvMet arrived to Zhangjiagang Sheen Faith Steel Co. LTD in August of 2007, a period of intensive testing was carried out to achieve the Tire Cord steel process improvement at one of the company’s steel plants at Jin Feng Town in ZhangJiagang City.
The period of process testing during 2007 was performed using a beta release version of the software tool where the inputs were introduced by hand to simulate the steelmaking environmental signals and data, and to gradually modify the software to fulfill the customer process requirements.
From January to April of 2008, STZ started the implementation and integration of the SIFC Steelmaker Software tool in the plant facilities to automate its operation according with the plant real time events along steelmaking process, and performed the last software adjustments according to the steel process and facilities resources.
The customer’s acceptance test for the final software delivery was carried out on April 23rd, 2008
This Software Implementation was very important and representative for STZ and SvMet Engineering because marks an evolution on his software engineering approach.
The SIFC Software Tool is now more reliable, scalable and adaptable than ever before, permitting SvMet´s engineering team to undertake the customer requirements in the fastest and accurate manner possible.
SIFC Process
The SIFC Process was primarily used to control all non metallic inclusions in Tire Cord Product and achieve a high score according with the BEKAERT specification.
The SIFC Software Tool is a sophisticated system that allows the following functions:
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Allows the “selection” of additions according to "dynamic" conditions
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Allows a change for process route
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Dictate specific operations as per product requirement
The tool provides to the enginners and operators specific real time instructions along steelmaking process
Technical features of the Software tool
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It was designed using the n-tier application architecture model, allowing the implementation and customization for a specific customer being done rapidly and accurately
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It is capable to communicate and share data with level 2 systems of any size
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It can grow according with the steelmaking plant arrangement and resources
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It provides historic process data through its User Interface, and the data can be downloaded to excel files or pictures from the analysis charts
