PSI awarded follow up contract from ThyssenKrupp Electrical Steel

Wednesday, 21 Oct 2009

PSI announced that it has been awarded by ThyssenKrupp Electrical Steel with implementing the production management system PSI metals for the rolling mill and thermal treatment in the electric strip cold rolling mill in Isbergues in France.

The goals of ThyssenKrupp Electrical Steel are harmonized processes and reduced expenditures in the IT administration by means of a standardized shop floor system in all the plants. This order was preceded by the proven use of PSI systems at the Gelsenkirchen site and the successful implementation of PSI metals in slitting and packaging in Isbergues. In the future PSI metals will be controlling the production at both European plants and securing the quality across all the processing steps.

The solution is based on the PSI metals components for Production Execution and Advanced Line Sequencing. The specific plant programs will be generated and implemented for all the system types in the rolling mill and the tempering. The cross plant tracking of the production orders, including the production data acquisition and implementation of the quality standards, is handled at the level of the specific plant segment by means of a task optimized menu.

ThyssenKrupp Electrical Steel expects benefits especially in retroactive quality analyses. Every modification and defect, including precise information about where the position of the defect was in which stage of treatment, is shown in a graphical material genealogy for every piece of electrical steel. This quality information forms the basis for the future improvements in the production process.

Mr Guy Ligi head of Order Center & Finishing Operation at ThyssenKrupp Electrical Steel in Isbergues said that "PSI has now shown us at Isbergues that my colleagues’ long years of positive experience with PSI at the Gelsenkirchen site were justified. The old system was successfully replaced and the ramp-up occurred without incidents. The first strips were cut and packed just a few hours after the conversion of the system. The process was tracked completely by means of PSI metals. We are looking forward to phase 2, i.e. the introduction of the rolling mill and the tempering with great confidence."