9th International Conference on Modeling and Simulation of Metallurgical Processes in Steelmaking - STEELSIM2021

Configuring rules for automated quality evaluation within a quality management system is a complex task, especially when several processing lines along the production route are involved. In fact, the system user needs to transfer process and product knowledge of quality engineers and steel developers into the system in order to enable an automated quality decision that reflects the experts’ knowhow. In this paper, a system that supports the definition of complex quality evaluation rules and validates them by simulating their impact on a large amount of historical, high-resolution production mass data, is presented. Examples are illustrated from a first successful installation in the integrated plant of a renowned Asian steel manufacturer.