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Broner to Provide Scheduling Solution for Gerdau Açominas Steckel-Plate Complex
02/13/2012 - Broner Metals Solutions has been selected by Gerdau Açominas to implement a new Advanced Planning & Scheduling solution for Gerdau’s new Plate and Steckel Mills in Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Broner Metals Solutions has been selected by Gerdau Açominas to implement a new Advanced Planning & Scheduling solution for Gerdau’s new Plate and Steckel Mills in Minas Gerais, Brazil. The objective of the new project is to provide the new production lines with advanced planning scheduling solutions that will support Gerdau's production, inventory, and sales strategies.
Broner’s Production Planner (PP) and Material Planner (MP) modules will be implemented to the new Steckel and Plate mill complex to provide an integrated, plant-wide, production and material plan from steelmaking, rolling finishing, and shipping.
The Plate Combination (PC) module will be introduced to provide functionality specific to the planning of plate mills, including the ability to combine several orders for plate into one, larger master plate; and child slabs into mother slabs. PC groups orders by similar characteristics such as finished gauge, finished width, grade, and quality and determines the “optimal” cutting pattern for the master plate.
The new Hot Mill Scheduling (HS) solution will provide specialized programming capabilities for the single reheat furnace and feedstock to both the Steckel mill and plate mill. The process uses current inventories and caster schedules to generate multiple rounds, based on user-defined sequencing rules and parameters. The scheduling solution will also include the ability to re-allocate slabs already loaded in the reheat furnace to alternative orders should mill problems prevent the scheduled specification being produced.
Gerdau is the leading producer of long steel in the Americas and one of the largest suppliers of special long steel in the world. It has over 40,000 employees and an industrial presence in 14 countries with operations in the Americas, Europe, and Asia, which together represent an installed capacity of over 25 million tonnes of steel per year. It is the largest recycler in Latin America.
Gerdau Açominas is a subsidiary of the Gerdau Group and has a coke integrated steelworks in Ouro Branca, Brazil. It offers a mix of long products, including billets, slabs, blooms, sections, and wire rods. The company embarked on the development of a new Steckel and Plate Mill with the nominal capacity of 2 million tonnes per year in the first year of operation, increasing to 3 million tonnes per annum in subsequent years.
Broner Metals Solutions specializes exclusively in delivering metals specific, MES, planning, scheduling, and supply chain solutions to the steel and aluminum industries. Its solutions range from: business optimization and order promising; through production and material planning, integrated / through-scheduling, production scheduling; to MES production, quality, inventory and equipment management and warehouse management. Broner Metals Solutions is part of Hyperion Systems Engineering Ltd.
