The QMOS DS Alloy Calculator has officially started at its first location! The screen has been designed after extensive collaboration with the engineering team at Kankakee, aiming to streamline their alloy addition workflow. The screen also includes a machine learning model that significantly improved over existing linear regression predictions of physical properties. Automated model retraining is in place, ensuring ongoing …
Lab Assistant Commissioned at Gerdau West Tennessee
The QMOS DS Lab Assistant screen made its debut at the Gerdau West Tennessee plant. Designed to assist chem lab technicians with their decision making, the screen utilizes machine learning models for accurate predictions of physical properties for all products each heat is intended for. Users can see the probability of tensile failure and take appropriate action before billets are …
Gerdau implements the JobAid System in all their North American steel making operations
Gerdau implements the cloud based JobAid management system in all North American facilities. The system is implemented centrally on Gerdau’s cloud system and enables all facilities to digitalize all paper forms such as checklists, inspections and job aids among others. The JobAid system is fully integrated with Gerdau’s Maintenance Management System to auto generate work orders as needed. The JobAid …
Scrap Optimizer Pilot Conducted at Nucor Steel Kankakee
A pilot of the QMOS DS Scrap Optimizer tool was conducted at the Kankakee plant. The goal was to evaluate optimized recipes created based on the proprietary algorithm that combines machine learning models and mixed integer optimization to reduce scrap cost while maintaining quality needed for specified grade groups.
Optimus Steel completes the QMOS integration with its corporate SAP system
Optimus Steel completes the integration of its corporate SAP system and the QMOS MES at its Beaumont, TX facilities. With this interface, all work orders are received from the SAP system by QMOS. Once the work orders are completed, all production and performance information is set back to the SAP system.
Gerdau implements the QMOS Recycling Management System in its Whitby plants for Ferrous and non-ferrous operations
Gerdau has implemented the QMOS Recycling Management system in their Ferrous and non-ferrous facilities in Whitby, Ontario. The Gerdau Whitby plant can new use QMOS to manage all stages of their operations from campaign scheduling, production tracking, material handling, quality control, delay tracking and much more. QMOS enables Whitby to make major improvements in operational accuracy and transparency by creating …
Nucor Steel completes the implementation of QMOS MES system on all its bar mills
Nucor Steel recently chose QMOS as the standard MES solution for all its Bar Group facilities. Other than the mills who were previously on QMOS, all remaining facilities were commissioned with QMOS from April 2018 and March 2019. The Bar Group divisions involved were Auburn, NY; Kankakee, IL; Jackson, MS; Birmingham, AL; Kingman, AZ; Wallingford, CT; and Marion, OH. Nucor …