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News Release from: Industrial Automation Services
Edited by the Processingtalk Editorial
Team on 13 November 2007
Zinc coating control for galvanizing
line
ArcelorMittal has placed an order with Industrial Automation Services to design, supply and commission a zinc coating mass control system for a hot dip galvanizing line located at Indiana Harbour
The order covers Achieva Coating Control for the #2 hot dip galvanizing line, and a new, complete Knife Control System Achieva Coating Control utilizes a proven physics-based coating mass model to generate accurate references and control knife to strip distances and stripping gas pressure
This article was originally published on Processingtalk on 21 Feb 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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Ormet Aluminum Mill Products has placed further orders with IAS for upgrades to their existing control systems, to install the IAS Windows based IOWorks graphical development/maintenance environment
During order transitions, advanced signal processing algorithms enable the controls to estimate coating thickness within one coating gauge scan.
The resulting control actions minimise the generation of out-of-spec material and the minimised coating standard deviation allows for zinc savings and a typical return on investment of a few months.
The replacement Air Knife Control System will provide much faster and more accurate responses for dynamic positioning of the knives.
Coating measurement will be via existing Sentek Coating thickness gauge.
The open architecture control system incorporates the IAS easy to maintain graphical programming interface, and takes advantage of the considerable IAS process know-how and local support.
Engineering design, project management, installation assistance, commissioning and operator/maintenance training will be executed from the IAS offices in Pittsburgh, USA and Newcastle, Australia.
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