Design and application of digital management system for the sinter raw material plant

To solve the problems existed in iron and steel enterprise material plant, such as complex sources resulting in variety of materials, inaccurate inventory statistics leading to high cost, unpredictable external factors affecting material plant, etc., a digital management system is introduced in this paper. Firstly, the practical requirements and the process of material plant are analyzed. Based on the analysis, the new grid management and material balance methods are developed. Applying these methods, a new management system for material plant is designed, whose system configuration, hardware architecture, data flow, and functions of modules are introduced in details. Such system has been implemented in a large-scale iron and steel corporation sinter raw material plant. The operation results show that, this system has excellent capabilities and a promising application future in industries.