We are thrilled to announce that our QMOS-Caster L2 product was successfully implemented at Nucor Darlington SBQ shop in September 2022. This marks a significant milestone in our journey to provide advanced and comprehensive solutions to our customers in the steel industry.The QMOS-Caster L2 product boasts an array of key features that enable it to provide superior quality evaluation and …
Nucor Yamato Implements QMOS MES at its Blytheville Plant
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, …
Nucor Implements QMOS-Caster Level 2 at its Nebraska Plant
Nucor implements QMOS Caster-Level 2 at its Nebraska Plant in November 2021, replacing the existing in-house application. The new system offers advanced features such as live casting operation visibility, seamless integration with QMOS (Level 3 system), material quality evaluation and dispositioning, and automatic work order and length change based on Cut sheet. QMOS Caster-Level 2 tool enables greater efficiency and …
Nucor Implements QMOS MES at its Nebraska Plant
Nucor implements QMOS at its Nebraska Plant in October 2021. As a part of its strategic roadmap for factory digitalization and Industry 4.0, Nucor Steel chose QMOS as the standard MES solution for all its engineered bar mill facilities. The Plant implements the complete suite of QMOS functions covering all production and quality operations in the Melt Shop, Rolling Mill, …
Gerdau Rolls Out the QMOS Scalehouse Automation System for Scrap Receiving
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
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
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 …
Optimus Steel completes the QMOS integration with its corporate SAP system
Optimus Steel completes the integration of its corporate SAP system and the QMOS MES at its Beaumont, TX facilities. With this interface, all work orders are received from the SAP system by QMOS. Once the work orders are completed, all production and performance information is set back to the SAP system.
Quad Infotech has developed a Scrap Optimization algorithm to help reduce scrap usage costs
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
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 …