iron & steel
RAGTRON has operated in and acquired the knowledge of market sectors and the domains there in.
Sponge Iron Plants
- The process to make steel on the fingertip control.
- Automatic weighing controls of Iron Ore, Lime and Coke.
- Automatic transfer to Kiln through various conveyors.
- Temperature and Pressure monitoring & control of the Kiln.
- A complete operator friendly HMI to control the process.
- Remote management and data logging possible.
- Energy Recovery Boiler automation.
- Modular PLCs communicating with each other on high-speed bus.
- Data management and ERP interface.
Melt Shop Automation: LRF/MIF
- Ladle furnace handling and melt monitor
- Constant Power or constant current based electrode position control.
- Auto weighing of additives as per the batch process designs.
- Heat cycle monitoring.
- Modeling of Power v/s energy and Power Management control.
- Transfer of Ladles to Caster or further process.
Continuous Castors
- A full PLC controlled operation with Manual mode overrides.
- Auto mould level control software to ensure optimum quality.
- All the handling equipment driven through AC Variable frequency drives communicating with PLC.
- Remote I/O structure to save inter-panel cabling.
- Process control for primary and secondary cooling systems.
- Billet Cut To Length and Cooling Bed Automation.
Re-heating Furnaces
- Total Furnace automation through PLC and Drives for Material Handling.
- Cascaded Loop Temperature Control with multiple PID controllers.
- Automatic Billet handling at the Loading (Charging) and Unloading (Discharging) side.
- Billet positioning inside the furnace by measuring the length, classifying the family and positioning inside the furnace.
- Billet family tracking inside the furnace for Discharge mechanism control.
- Report generation and data filing system.
Bar & Wire Rod Mills
- Continuous rolling Mill automation from Furnace output to finished product.
- Billet conditioning such descaler, rejection table control.
- Complete cascade control.
- Minimum Tension Control for better quality.
- Horizontal as well as Vertical Loop control for Tension free rolling.
- Flying Shear Controls for Billet cutting.
- Crop and Cobble shear control.
- Billet tracking.
- On line groove factor calculations and corrections.
- Laying head vobulation control.
- Front-end orientation control.
- Stelmor conveyor automation.
- Garret coiler, Coil binding & stacking controls.
Bar Mill - Processing Lines
- Dynamic length computation and Shear Control.
- TMT process Control and cut to length Start-Stop Shear Control.
- Automatic synchronization with mill speed.
- Complete data logging of the temperature profile and graphical logging.
- Optimization of tailpiece for minimum wastage.
Bar Mill - Material handling
- Complete Cooling Bed Automation in synchronism with Flying Shear.
- Twin Channel control for low speed mills.
- Brake and Rack Slide Control for high-speed lines.
- Front end and Tail Piece management.
- Auto transfer to wrapping machine and wrapping.
- Conveyor control to transfer the material to stockyard.
- Bar coding/data storage and collection.
- Integration with Level 3 automation such as ERP/SAP® systems.
Profile Mills, Tube / Pipe Mills
(Seamless, Forming & Spiral)
- Piercer, Assel, Sizing, SRM & Cooling bed controls.
- Pilger Mill, Draw bench controls.
- NDT, Straightening machine, Hydrotesting.
- Tension controlled Stretch Reducing mill with cascade control.
- Thickened end controls.
- Cooling Bed automation.
Forming Mills / Spiral Mills
- Cascade control.
- Welding control.
Cold Rolling Mills
(Ferrous & Non-Ferrous)
- Mill Referencing.
- AGC / HGC / Screw Down
- Winder / Tension Control
- Auto Slow Down (ASD)
- Roll Force Control / Load Control
- Mass Flow (MFC)
- Strip Break Detection (SBD)
CGL (Continuous Galvanizing)
CCL/ECL (Colour/Electro Coating) / CAPL (Continuous Annealing & Pickling) / Tinning Line / Pickling Line
- Line Referencing.
- Entry / Exit (Vertical / Horizontal) Looper / Accumulator Control
- Vobulation Control
- Winder / Tension Control
- Auto Slow Down (ASD)
- Weld Hole Detection
- Strip steering control
- Load sharing control for bridles
CTL (Cut to length)
Slitting / Rewinding / Shearing (Start-Stop, Clutch-brake & Flying) / Foil Separating & Tension Levelling Lines
- Line referencing
- Entry/exit loop control Winder / tension control
- Position control
- Hot Strip Rolling Mill with Hyd. Stands AGC control
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