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Broner awarded Phase 2 of Planning and Scheduling Project by ArcelorMittal Vanderbijlpark Works, South Africa
27 May 2008
Broner Metals Solutions has been awarded a further participation in the Global Scheduling Project by ArcelorMittal Vanderbijlpark Works in South Africa.
The Phase 2 of the project has started after the implementation and launch of the Phase 1, which spanned steel making facilities, slab casters, hot strip and plate mill and included four Broner modules: Caster Scheduler, Hot Mill Scheduler, Online Slab Allocator and Melt Shop Control Centre.
The new Phase covers planning and finishing facilities and comprises the following Broner applications:
- Production Planner performs fixed capacity, end-to-end material flow planning for all stages, from steel-making to packing
- Material Planner is responsible for automatic allocation and re-allocation of physical inventory to sales orders, to replace currently manual process
- Plate Combination is responsible for automatic allocation and reallocation of physical inventory to plate sales orders
- Production Scheduler is an automated scheduling tool that uses physical and virtual coils to improve visibility of impact of a schedule on downstream equipment.
Graham Hocknell, Project Manager for Phase 1 and 2 at ArcelorMittal South Africa Vanderbijlpark, said, “We were pleased with the results delivered by Broner in the first phase and are now implementing Phase 2 together.”
About ArcelorMittal Vanderbijlpark
ArcelorMittal is the world's number one steel company, with 330,000 employees in more than 60 countries. ArcelorMittal pro-forma revenue in 2005 showed combined revenues of 62.2bn euro (77.5bn$) and approximate production capacity of 113 million tonnes, which represents about 10% of the world's crude steel output. With an industrial presence in 27 countries across Europe, the Americas, Asia and Africa, ArcelorMittal has a balanced geographic diversity within all the key steel markets, both developing and developed.
ArcelorMittal South Africa is the largest steel producer on the African continent, producing 7,1 million tonnes of liquid steel per annum, with Vanderbijlpark being just one of its facilities. ArcelorMittal Vanderbijlpark Works is one of the world's largest inland steel mills and the largest supplier of flat steel products in sub-Saharan Africa. It produces hot rolled sheet, hot rolled steel plate, hot rolled steel strip, cold rolled steel sheet, hot dip galvanized steel sheet, electrolytically galvanised steel sheet, colour coated steel sheet and electrolytic tin plate.
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