TMK Standardizes on Broner MES for its Russian Pipe Mills
04/22/2007 - TMK has standardized on Broner MES technology to improve production monitoring and control at each of its four pipe mills in Russia.
Broner Metals Solutions announced that TMK, Russia, has standardized on Broner MES technology to improve production monitoring and control at each of its four pipe mills in Russia.
As part of a major program to improve the automation of its pipe manufacture, TMK will use the Broner InfoPlus.21 suite of products as the standard MES technology, with implementation by local systems integrators at each of its plants. The Broner MES will be used for a wide range of applications including work execution, work tracking, data acquisition, quality management, and stock management.
The Broner InfoPlus.21 suite of products collects, manipulates, and stores large volumes of process data, which is then made accessible for analysis and reporting by client users, business systems, and production applications. Resulting business solutions lead to improved productivity, increased profits, and enhanced business flexibility.
Yuri Ogurtsov , Deputy General Director of Information Technologies for TMK said, “We are engaged in a long-term program of technical development, which will lead to the enhancement of each stage of the production process over the course of five years, up to the year 2010. It was important to select the best technology as the foundation for this, and we chose InfoPlus.21 from Broner because of its rich functionality and Broner’s strength in the metals industry.”
Founded in 2001, OAO TMK is the largest manufacturer and exporter of pipe products in Russia and the second largest pipe producer in the world. TMK’s facilities include the Volzhsky Pipe Plant (Volgograd region), Seversky Tube Works (Sverdlovsk region), Sinarsky Pipe Plant (Sverdlovsk region), and Taganrog Metallurgical Works (Tagmet) in the Rostov region.
TMK produces five main kinds of pipe: seamless threaded pipes from the oil-and-gas range (OCTG); seamless line pipes; industrial-use seamless pipes; large-diameter long-distance welded pipes and industrial-use welded pipes.
Broner Metals Solutions specializes in delivering value to the steel and aluminum industries, providing supply chain planning, scheduling and manufacturing execution systems and consultancy. The product range includes demand management, sales and operation planning, availability to promise, capability to promise, advanced planning and scheduling and manufacturing execution solutions. With 20 years experience, the company is the global corporate standard supplier of production scheduling and MES solutions to the world’s largest steel company, Mittal Steel, as well as supplying metals companies such as Baosteel, Dofasco, Corus, Cosipa, CSN, Gerdau, Nippon Steel, Norandal, and Usiminas.
