Steel Ladle Tracking Software for ArcelorMittal

The new system combines previously separate applications for tracking and managing steel ladles and can be operated intuitively via touchscreen, or alternatively via keyboard and mouse. Especially in the shop floor, and particularly in the crane operator’s cab, touchscreen operation offers significant advantages due to space constraints and the risk of the keyboard and mouse becoming quickly soiled.

The steel ladle tracking dialog provides a quick overview of the ladles’ status—such as their location or heating status—through a schematic representation of the ladles in the plant. Detailed information about the ladles can be accessed with a single click or tap. It is just as easy to record weights, document the ladles’ locations, or assign ladle lids.

The schematic representation of the steel mill can be dynamically adapted to changes in the plant by configuring the master data.

Additional dialogs are used to verify pans and steel quantities, assign and dispatch batches, and maintain master data. For each user group, the dialogs are configured based on their permissions. The underlying security concept immediately checks the validity of the entries. If a violation of the conditions stored in the system occurs, the current transaction and all entered data are reset, and an error message is displayed. Additionally, the system offers the option to enter all values via emergency data entry.