Steel has deeply influenced the evolution of mankind since craftsmen started removing oxygen from iron oxides many centuries ago, so giving "iron culture" communities an instrument to establish their political, economical and military leaderships.
The steel ability of influencing the human history has increased after the industrial revolution, which caused deep changes in the manufacturing technology by turning it from a small scale craftmanship into a labor-intensive one. The market globalization is furtherly revolutionising the steel manufacturing culture by demanding more and more flexibility, efficiency, productivity and quality, as never before.
An evoluted approach to the Automation and Process control, integrating Monitoring functions with tracking and scheduling, is the correct answer for steel industry to remain competitive in this enviroment, by means of a simultaneous check of machines, processes and products.
The steel industry needs automation & control as vital technologies in its pursue of industrial targets of extreme complexity, results of long manufacturing cycles.
A real-time clear and synthetic picture of what is happening along the line, and the possibility of analysing the historical data, support decisions for the optimized production, maintenance, quality scheduling, and investment timing by making the related information easily, quickly and exhaustively allowable.