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Broner Hot Mill Scheduler

The Broner Hot Mill Scheduler is a dedicated automatic scheduling tool for hot-strip mills, plate mills and long-product mills.

The scheduling process uses current inventories and the latest caster schedules to generate multiple rounds, based on user-defined sequencing rules and parameters. Hot-charge scheduling is provided by bi-directional integration with the Broner Caster Scheduler module.

Dedicated user-friendly GUIs with drag-and-drop editing facilities and graphic violation checking rules allow users to manually validate schedules before release to the Manufacturing Execution System for production.

Benefits

• Lower cost and increased productivity through ore optimal scheduling and an increased hot-charge ratio
• Reduced manual effort.

Features

• Support for hot-mill rules and constaints such as:
  • width and gauge control (wide-to-narrow, narrow-to-wide, 'maximum jump', aim etc)
  • material grouping, mixing, sequencing, and zoning rules
  • round sequencing, dependencies and constraints
  • back-up /work roll changes
  • quality exclusions or traditional constraints
  • customer order batching
  • opportunistic hot connect
  • other user-defined criteria.

Hot Mill Scheduler Graphic User Interface