Quad Infotech Implements [QMOS] MES system at Gerdau Ameristeel Sayreville
04/21/2011 - Quad Infotech has completed the implementation of its [QMOS] MES system at Gerdau Ameristeel’s Sayreville facility for seamless coordination of its steelmaking and rolling operations throughout the entire operation.
Quad Infotech has completed the implementation of its [QMOS] MES system at Gerdau Ameristeel’s Sayreville facility. The new [QMOS] system has enabled the Sayreville plant to easily coordinate its steelmaking and rolling operations, from the Scrap Yard to bundling and shipping.
The new system features integrated quality control functions, including advanced spec management at the melting and rolling stages for accurate management of quality throughout the production process. Production scheduling also has been simplified through the implementation of one integrated system that tracks billets from the caster all the way to the end of their lifecycle upon consumption at the rolling mill.
The system also includes a billet optimization algorithm, customized based on rolling and melting practices, that calculates and suggests the optimum billet to melt for a given finished good product length, based on known losses in the mill.
Through the new system’s advanced shop management modules such as the roll shop, guide shop, stand building and more, the Sayreville's setup shops has taken advantage of many functions such as inventory and location management, product setup, shop planning, account summary and much more.
QMOS also includes advanced data analysis tools as well as its standard and custom production and KPI reports that the Sayreville plant will utilize for targeted process analysis and performance evaluation.
Gerdau-Ameristeel is the second-largest minimill steel producer in North America with annual manufacturing capacity of over 9.0 million tons of mill-finished steel products. Through its vertically integrated network of 17 minimills (including one 50%-owned minimill), 17 scrap recycling facilities and 46 downstream operations, Gerdau Ameristeel primarily serves customers in the eastern two-thirds of North America.
Quad Infotech is a software engineering and design company that specializes in the development of industrial computer software for the steel industry. Quad's unique combination of steelmaking and rolling process knowledge, combined with computer software design expertise, renders Quad's Level-2 and Level-3 software products unique in the global steel minimill market. [QMOS] has been operating in numerous steel plants throughout North America and Europe since 1994.
