Deutsche Edelstahlwerke Orders LiquiRob Casting Platform Robot from Siemens
11/17/2014 - Deutsche Edelstahlwerke GmbH has given Siemens Metals Technologies an order to supply a LiquiRob casting platform robot for its Siegen, Germany, plant.
The LiquiRob will be installed on the continuous billet caster, and in future will handle the lancing of the ladles. Until now this has been performed manually. As liquid steel can occasionally escape uncontrolled, the use of the LiquiRob will make casting operations significantly safer, since it will no longer be necessary to enter this hazardous area.
Pictured above: LiquiRob casting platform robot from Siemens
Deutsche Edelstahlwerke GmbH is part of the Schmolz + Bickenbach Group and is one of the leading companies in the production and processing of stainless steel long products. Some 4,000 employees work in its Witten, Siegen, Krefeld, Hagen and Hattingen plants, which produce and process around 1 million metric tons of stainless steel per annum. In the Siegen Plant, the steel is produced in an electric arc furnace and is cast on a six-strand casting plant into billets with diameters ranging from 138 to 265 millimeters.
Siemens developed LiquiRob to improve occupational safety and the quality of measurement under the harsh operating conditions encountered in the iron and steel industry. At the moment, six systems are working in continuous casting plants around the world, plus one on an electric arc furnace and another on a converter.
Pictured above: LiquiRob casting platform robot from Siemens
Deutsche Edelstahlwerke GmbH is part of the Schmolz + Bickenbach Group and is one of the leading companies in the production and processing of stainless steel long products. Some 4,000 employees work in its Witten, Siegen, Krefeld, Hagen and Hattingen plants, which produce and process around 1 million metric tons of stainless steel per annum. In the Siegen Plant, the steel is produced in an electric arc furnace and is cast on a six-strand casting plant into billets with diameters ranging from 138 to 265 millimeters.
Siemens developed LiquiRob to improve occupational safety and the quality of measurement under the harsh operating conditions encountered in the iron and steel industry. At the moment, six systems are working in continuous casting plants around the world, plus one on an electric arc furnace and another on a converter.
