Slovenian steel company SIJ Acroni, part of the SIJ Group, faced a major bottleneck in their production chain at one of its critical cold rolling mills due to obsolete DC drives and control systems, resulting in unsatisfactory productivity levels and unavailability of the mill.
The steelmaker, a leading manufacturer of stainless-steel quarto plates, wear-resistant, high tensile, tool and other special steel quarto plates, as well as non-oriented electrical steel and special grade hot and cold rolled coils for European and global markets, sought ABB’s expertise to upgrade its mill, which is located in Jesenice, Slovenia, with state-of-the-art digital technologies.
ABB’s Metals team replaced the customer‘s existing third-party systems with its fully integrated, all-in-one automation platform, with the same type of drives, controllers and I/O boards, including programming tools and SW, both for high technology functions and for mill, auxiliaries and drives control.
“ABB’s 800xA control system and proven DCS880 system drives enables SIJ Acroni to develop new, high-quality steel products with greater efficiency for years to come,” said Andreas Vollmer, Head of R&D, ABB Metals, Europe.