Baowu Group Zhanjiang’s intelligent stockyard

—— Achieving fully automatic, highly intelligent production and integrated control

Baosteel Zhanjiang’s stockyard, which was supplied by CISDI and put into operation in 2016, is the world’s most intelligent and eco-friendly coastal bulk material handling yard.

Five intelligent systems have been created – intelligent flow optimised decision-making, intelligent blending and proportioning, autonomous stacking, a digital yard and production simulation.

Each can make an intelligent decision on the shortest and lowest-consumption optimal flow, automatically match the materials of different properties, automatically track the material flow and automatically control transport volume.

Though the stockyard is around a million square metres in size, where only two operators are needed to remotely control management of the production site each day.

Creating unmanned sites or significantly reducing manpower during operation improves safety.

Increasing intelligence makes inventory, operation and management more efficient.

Highlights of Zhanjiang’s intelligent, eco-friendly stockyard:

Site labour reduced by 40 per cent

A 20 per cent increase in yard availability

8 per cent less energy consumption

Rise of 90 per cent in inventory efficiency

Zhanjiang stockyard operates unmanned stacking and reclaiming

CISDI’s digital yard design for Baosteel Zhanjiang