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Broner Caster Scheduler

A dedicated scheduling tool designed to meet the unique and complex scheduling needs of the casting plant.

Benefits

• Lower costs, due to reduced pig iron dumping, longer heat and tundish sequences and increased hot charging
• Reduced stock due to 'upgrade' functionality
• Increased productivity through longer heat and tundish sequences and reduced quality diverts
• Better customer service as the Caster Scheduler is integrated with the Broner Production Planning system.

Features

• Generates schedules for multi-strand casters
• Exploits grade families and hot mill spread and squeeze rules to optimize heat sequence and minimize stock
• Supports hot charging
• Considers all physical, metallurgical and quality rules
• Has a real-time slab allocation facility for assigning off-specification material to alternative orders.

Caster Scheduler Output