Zhanjiang Steel’s new all-weather wharf reduces labour by 50 per cent

A new intelligent manufacturing reference has come to fruition at Zhanjiang Steel’s all-weather wharf rebuild, which has been transformed into a manpower-reduced operation.

Conventional wharfs rely on manual operators for machine scheduling, coil product lifting and loading onto ships. A large workforce is required and working conditions are poor and unsafe.

CISDI’s intelligent solutions to these problems include the driver-less crane, warehousing intelligent control and machine vision.

Online operation fully controls the machine at the port and enables the machine inside the ship cabin to run with reduced labour. The entire wharf operation can be run with 50 per cent fewer staff.

The wharf is the second reference for CISDI’s intelligent warehousing products. Its first was the application of an intermediate warehouse and final product warehouse for Baosteel Bayi Steel’s hot strip mill.