An intelligent integrated centre for WISCO’s upstream-blast furnace is to be created by CISDI.

It will integrate the 25 upstream-BF central control rooms, giving centralised control.

The electric-instrument-computer system will be modified for this intelligent project.

CISDI Information Technology Co. has been awarded the EPC-based contract.

The centre will achieve integrated operational control and intelligent decision-making for WISCO’s upstream-BF plants and become the benchmark of WISCO intelligence.

The upgrades it will create for safety, technology integration, borderless coordination, production efficiency and performance targets will help WISCO greatly in its bid to be one of the world’s most competitive steel bases.

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CISDI built Baowu Group’s Shaogang Steel upstream-BF intelligent integrated control centre to an EPC basis and put it into operation in January this year.

It has already achieved numerous firsts in the global steel sector:

-       Steel’s first centralised and mass application of IoT, mobile internet, big data and cloud computing expertise

-       First achievement of a long-distance and large-scale centralised control, big data-based decision-making and borderless coordination in upstream-BF and energy plants

-       First creation of a new mode of intelligent manufacturing for highly-efficient, coordinated and low-cost ironmaking

Remarkable progress has been made since the centre went into operation:

- Over 400 workers have been removed from hazardous site areas

- There are 60 per cent fewer worksite areas

- A 40 per cent increase in labour efficiency achieved

- Savings of $3.5 per tonne of hot metal made

- A 500 tonne increase in hot metal tapped daily

- Predictions show a $28 million profit by 2019, based on consistent increases in output and cost savings in recent months