Steel Industry Digital Transformation with SCADA Systems

Steel industry digital transformation plays a crucial role in national development. As a foundational sector, the steel industry provides essential input materials for key economic fields such as mechanical engineering, supporting industries, and infrastructure development. It also contributes significantly to urbanization and has a strong impact on overall socio-economic growth.

Vietnam’s steel industry has expanded globally, with products exported to more than 30 countries. In 2021, steel exports achieved impressive results, with finished steel output exceeding 14 million tons. In addition, intermediate steel products generated over 12.7 billion USD in export value, contributing significantly to the country’s foreign currency earnings.

In the era of Industry 4.0, competition in the steel sector has become increasingly intense. Beyond product quality and services, steel industry digital transformation has become a key priority for factories. Digitalization helps optimize production processes, improve operational efficiency, reduce waste, and enhance overall competitiveness in the global market.

CHALLENGES IN THE STEEL INDUSTRY

In the complex steel sector, enterprises have to deal with a substantial amount of interconnected and fluctuating costs including large product raw materials, diverse customer bases, distinguised quality and service requirements, and complicated distribution channels with different profit impacts.

Supply chain executives have little access to real-time information. Thus, they cannot anticipate market changes. As a result, enterprises are not able to anticipate risks or join in short-term opportunities, leading to a huge loss of value. Recently, social distancing measures to limit the spread of the Covid-19 epidemic disrupted supply. At the same time, production activities are stagnated, resulting in a slowdown in demand for iron and steel products and declining prices.

Traditional operating has not satisfied all the requirements. The application of digitalization in steel factories as a management tool has facilitated effective resource control. This allows users to access company data sources quickly, safely, and stably based on data usage decentralization and types of allow-to-use data in the assigned authority. Otherwise, the application also solves the primary issue of monitoring complex systems and extensive real-time computing capabilities, similar to SCADA wastewater treatment systems that require continuous monitoring and precise control. Digitalization may become the only solution for the current seeming dead-end road.

BENEFITS OF STEEL INDUSTRY DIGITALIZATION

Digitizing factories in the steel industry has brought many benefits to operating businesses such as cost optimization, automatic data collection, storage and analysis, as well as SCADA energy monitoring to optimize energy usage and improve operational efficiency. As a result, a large number of businesses today have implemented output monitoring systems and digitalized factories generally, and the factories in the steel sector particularly.

• Reduce maintenance and repair costs, automate production, reduce the number of workers in the factory, and operate 24/7.
• Eliminate the possibility of human error. This not only produces higher quality products and shortens manufacturing time, but also decreases selling prices.
• Automation protects human health against harmful chemicals, heavy or repetitive work.
• Monitor the machine status, facilitate the maintenance planning process, make predictions and take prompt action to prevent possible damage.
• Bring enormous economic benefits and sharply reduce emissions, ensure sustainable development, and enhance the competitiveness of our country’s steel products in the context of economic integration.
• Digital transformation helps businesses change their model towards efficiently streamlining and ensuring strategic goals. The process is also transparent and scientifically connected to the global logistics supply chain. This group’s internal focus is on automation and professional data operations management.

PROJECTS

Implementing digitalization in Peb Steel factory of Peb Group

Power management project for An Hung Tuong steel factory

ATSCADA has a specialized team for digitalization.A software laboratory that concentrates industrial automation experts, has many years of experience in implementing factory digitalization projects. Thus, we are committed to constantly innovating technology as well as developing customized products as demands. With many projects implemented in the market, our abilities have been proven through many factory digitalization projects in a variety of fields, such as garments, steel, electronic assemblies, etc.

ATSCADA wishes to cooperate and accompany your business in new stages of success. And DIGITALIZATION IN THE FACTORY is the fastest way to connect both sides.

Thank you and appreciate your cooperation!

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