Nucor Yamato Implements QMOS MES at its Blytheville Plant

QII Implementation News, QMOS

Nucor implements QMOS at its NYS (Nucor Yamato Steel) plant in Blytheville, AK, USA. QMOS will help consolidate the operations of NYS’ two casters, two rolling mills, finishing as well as detailed and complex quality control processes into a single QMOS system. Some mentionable features are fully automated bar tracking throughout the rolling operations, sample tracking for the QC process, …

Gerdau Rolls Out the QMOS Scalehouse Automation System for Scrap Receiving

QII Implementation News, QMOS, Scalehouse

Gerdau implements QMOS Scrap Receiving Automation System at its Midlothian, TX plant. The system will enable fully automated operation of the Midlothian’s two scalehouses (four scales) as the drivers interact with automated kiosks for inbound and outbound processing. The Scrap Automation System interfaces with the scales, radioactive signals and the traffic systems including the traffic lights and gates. All contracts …

Gerdau implements the QMOS Recycling Management System in three additional Facilities

QII APEX, Implementation News, QMOS, Recycling

Gerdau implemented the QMOS Recycling Management System at three additional recycling facilities: • West Tennessee, TN • Midlothian, TX • Manitoba, Canada The system enables all these facilities to fully manage their Ferrous and Non-Ferrous operations. The main features of the system would be: • Campaign planning • Mass balancing • Delay tracking • Quality sample analysis • Historical process …

Gerdau implements the JobAid System in all their North American steel making operations

QII Implementation News, JobAid, QMOS

Gerdau implements the cloud based JobAid management system in all North American facilities. The system is implemented centrally on Gerdau’s cloud system and enables all facilities to digitalize all paper forms such as checklists, inspections and job aids among others. The JobAid system is fully integrated with Gerdau’s Maintenance Management System to auto generate work orders as needed. The JobAid …

Quad Infotech has developed a Scrap Optimization algorithm to help reduce scrap usage costs

QII Product Development, QMOS

Quad Infotech developed a scrap optimization program which optimizes the scrap recipe that is used by scrap yard operators to build buckets.  The program shows the lowest cost recipe for multiple grades given information such as scrap cost, scrap inventory, chemistry specifications and production requirements.  This will reduce scrap costs for the melt shop as they will know which scraps …

Gerdau implements the QMOS Recycling Management System in its Whitby plants for Ferrous and non-ferrous operations

QII Implementation News, QMOS

Gerdau has implemented the QMOS Recycling Management system in their Ferrous and non-ferrous facilities in Whitby, Ontario. The Gerdau Whitby plant can new use QMOS to manage all stages of their operations from campaign scheduling, production tracking, material handling, quality control, delay tracking and much more. QMOS enables Whitby to make major improvements in operational accuracy and transparency by creating …