LONG PRODUCTS BULLETIN - SMS Meer GmbH

Celsa’s section mill: preventing downtimes
”Technical Control System” –
in top form thanks to service contract
Section steel producer Celsa, Barcelona,
Spain, has signed a service agreement
with SMS Meer ensuring reliable functionality
of the ”Technical Control System”
(in short TCS) and offering optimal
support during rolling. The TCS provides
an exact roll position and, consequently,
allows top product quality.
In future, the section mill of Celsa will be taken care of properly by SMS Meer.
The aim: Error prevention. The modules
of the service contract with SMS Meer have
been customized in cooperation with Celsa.
The main goal is to make sure that problems
on the plant are prevented in the first
place. Should a fault occur despite all the efforts
to prevent this, it will be eliminated
quickly and expertly in a very short time.
Fast fault diagnosis. Thanks to advanced
technology – per email, phone and internet
system (VPN) – you can look at the
plant directly. A fault diagnostics can thus
be generated rapidly by our experts. Regular
checks, maintenance measures and
local staff training are rounding off the
range of services.
Annual system check. The second module
includes the annual system check. For
this purpose, a technician from SMS Meer
is on site for at least three days, installs new
computer systems and then informs customer’s
staff on their handling. Moerover,
he also provides training.
Other customers. Besides Celsa, other
customers rely on our service for TCS
equipment, including among others Gerdau
Ameristeel and Steel Dynamics in the
U.S.A. as well as Changzhi in China.
The TCS system provides an exact roll position.
Newsletter 1/2011
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