Product Tracking of blooms through the reheat furnace, reducing mills, transfer tables, saws and shears, and onto the cooling beds

Mill Setups for the Deseamer based on grade, table controls based on finishing size, saw/shear lengths based on customer order, and test cuts based on QA requirements

Data Collection including actual Deseamer speeds and oxygen pressure, bloom temperature, mill motor loads, billet lengths, number of test crops, number of pieces and piece lengths

Reporting functions including heat processing history, metallurgical summaries, production and delay reports

VAX-based Level 2 system design and development, including interfaces to multiple Allen/Bradley programmable controllers

Level 3 interfaces for downloading rolling manifests, and uploading bloom identities and actual production data

Improved surface quality thru more consistent Deseamer operation

Reduced costs thru reduction in the number of manual test cuts required by QA

Reduced costs thru workforce reduction by elimination of Mill Recorder functions