Steel Industry

With years of experience serving the steel industry, INTEG has a thorough understanding of the steelmaking process and the industry’s needs.  Having worked on projects from the primary end to the finishing end, INTEG has become knowledgeable in most every aspect of the complete steelmaking process – blast furnaces, BOFs, EAFs, ladle furnaces, casters, hot rolling mills, cold rolling mills and process lines.

INTEG provides a variety of solutions to meet the needs of the steel industry.

Hot Strip Mill Model (More Info...)

HSMM Customers SAIL (India) Dunaferr (Hungary) APM/IMSA (Mexico) Mittal Steel NA (USA) Severstal (Russia) Algoma Steel (Canada) St. Petersburg State Polytechnic U. (Russia) Saldanha Steel (S. Africa) Lloyds Steel (India) Nucor Steel Decatur (USA) Stelco (Canada) Dofasco (Canada) IPSCO (USA/Canada) US Steel (USA)

Today’s steelmaker is customer driven.  The market is demanding new, lighter, but stronger, steels and of course, less expensive.  In order to meet the needs of their customers, steelmakers must develop new grades of steel in significantly less time than previously needed.  Dual phase, TRIP, and stretch flange are all new types of steels.  In order to develop these new markets being pursued by their sales staff, steel companies must find ways to bring the goals of the enterprise to the plant floor.

With the Hot Strip Mill Model (HSMM), INTEG provides product engineers, metallurgists, process engineers and quality control personnel a way to rapidly and cost-effectively improve their hot rolling process and develop new grades of steel.  The HSMM saves them time and money by eliminating costly trial and error methods.  Applications and benefits of the HSMM include:

• Optimization of rolling mill practices and equipment configurations
• Microstructure analysis and new product development
• Evaluation of relationships among process variables such as speed, temperature, retained strain, phase transformation and mechanical properties

The HSMM is licensed and marketed under an exclusive agreement with the American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) and the US Department of Energy (DOE).

Process Line Thermal Model (More Info...)

PLTM Customers Columbus Coatings Co. Mittal Steel – Burns Harbor Mittal Steel – Sparrows Point DoSol Galva CGL AK Steel Rockport Nucor Steel Berkley Lukens Steel National Steel

With the development of coated steels, steel companies now operate a variety of continuous process lines to cost-effectively produce annealed and coated steels.  In order to effectively manage the heating of the strip to accurately achieve the desired steel properties, INTEG has supplied its Process Line Thermal Model (PLTM) to a variety of steel companies.  The production schedule being dictated by the enterprise can now be effectively managed on the plant floor.

The PLTM is applicable to both new and existing furnaces and can optimize strip heating, cooling and line speed to achieve the following benefits:

• An improvement in the amount of material within specification based on its mechanical and metallurgical properties.
• A reduction in strip tracking and buckling problems within the furnace through proper heating.
• The promotion of efficient coating by controlling Peak Metal Temperature accurately and repeatedly. 
• The maximization of production by minimizing the amount of out of tolerance product during product transitions.

Networking and Integrating Plant Equipment (More Info...)

The JNIOR Uses a Variety of Communication Protocols: Ethernet TCP/IP Modbus OPC Server Windows DLL Data Packets RS232/RS422/RS48

Steel plants are equipment intensive and are designed to last for many years.  As such, they typically consist of a variety of equipment installed over time.  This leads to both new and legacy equipment with various types of automation systems.  In today’s world, companies need to know the status of all their equipment and production process in real-time.

In order to bridge the gap between the plant floor and enterprise systems and to include islands of isolated equipment, the INTEG JNIOR can help steelmakers bring key data to the network, seamlessly and cost-effectively.  Digital, analog and serial signals can be connected to the Ethernet network and integrated with standard HMI packages, database packages, etc. operating in pulpits and computer centers.