Information Construction Solution for Baosteel

The core status of MES three system components ...

In order to better deal with the new market challenges, the iron and steel enterprises are actively promoting the construction of information, Shanghai Bao Xin software company in the long run in Baosteel's information construction process, accumulated a lot of valuable experience, formed a highly industry-specific information integrated solutions.

Project concept

Because of many equipments and complicated logistics, the information system of iron and steel enterprises is often composed of many layers. As shown in the picture, the information system applied to the iron and steel enterprise consists of three parts: the most top ERP (Enterprise resource Planning) system, the bottom PCs (Process Control system), and the MES (manufacturing execution System) which is in the key position of the connecting link.

Among them, ERP mainly according to Enterprise's person, the wealth, the material various resources condition and the production, the supply, the sale each link information, carries on the reasonable effective plan, the organization to the production, causes the production management activity to carry on harmoniously, and to the Enterprise Strategic Plan decision-making. MES, according to the ERP system issued by the contract plan, through production scheduling, production statistics, cost control, material balance and energy management process to organize production, and information collection, transmission and processing, timely reporting to the ERP system. PCS system according to MES issued production instructions for the process control of each process, set the specific action parameters of various equipment, carry out various model calculation and control calculation, while collecting performance data upload mes and ERP system.

Linkage's information scheme introduces the management idea of "taking finance as the center", adopting the design strategy and method of "functional coverage production line" and "Enterprise Operation", the goal of "organizing production according to contract, managing and controlling the whole process and pursuing the maximum ability of enterprise marketing and production" is achieved.

Main functions of ERP

Bao Xin ERP mainly includes the following functions:

Sales management includes user information management, resource management, price management, user contract management, payment management, accounting management and statistics and analysis of sales.

Production management includes contract management, material requirements and production planning functions.

Quality management, including metallurgical standard management, product standard management, quality assurance management, inspection and laboratory testing standards and records management.

Delivery management, including the production of finished products management, finished factory management, factory settlement management functions.

Financial and cost management includes cost accounting management and general accounting management.

Equipment management includes benchmark management, spot inspection management, spare parts material management, fixed Asset management, maintenance cost management and evaluation analysis.

Human resource management includes labor organization management, salary management, training management, deployment management, attendance management, payroll calculation and other functions.

Energy management includes the preparation of energy plans, energy production, supply and demand balance, and energy assessment and other management functions.

The main functions of MES

Linkage MES plays the role of vertical integration of enterprise management Platform and field control equipment, and also plays the key role of integrated product and quality design, planning and logistics dispatch, production control and management in the whole process. It includes the following features:

The manufacturing standard management is to manage the process manufacturing standards and operating standards of each process, including the input and maintenance of various manufacturing standards, as a basis for controlling parameters in production.

Quality design for the production quality control of various products to establish a design benchmark, including product limit specifications, dimensional tolerances, process control parameters, online sampling requirements, finished product release standards.

Job scheduling According to the production characteristics of each unit, the release of the production contract for the group, and according to the process requirements of the production object sequencing and various conditions of production inspection, to form a specific production planning, so that production can be continuous, balanced, so that all kinds of equipment in the best state of work.

Production instruction generation and release automatically generate job instructions and PDI data according to the planned and quality design results, and automatically convert the requirements of the production contract into the operation instructions of each unit and equipment and the control parameters of various basic automation equipment, and give the PCS system of the corresponding unit.

Dynamic adjustment of job plan according to the plan execution situation of each production unit, the assigned work plan can be compiled and implemented, and the change of the plan deletion, append and execution order can be carried out.

Quality management and quality tracking mes at the same time to deal with the production of a variety of materials to determine the quality of the standards, can be based on the production of the quality of performance data.

Material tracking, production performance collection and production statistics each unit executes production according to manufacturing instructions, in the production process, the material production process for real-time tracking, the output of products will be the production process of specific parameters and various production performance, including the main auxiliary materials for the investment, a variety of measuring equipment testing results on the MES system, Mes system according to the production performance of the plan and materials for the corresponding treatment, the plan implementation status and material status of the logo, and can be divided into varieties, specifications for real-time statistics of production results.

Warehouse management for different yards and warehouses, including raw material storehouse, intermediate storehouse, finished product storehouse carries on the material tracking and the stock control, may carry on the handling equipment to send the work order, including the kind of warehousing, the storehouse, pours, the material and so on orders, simultaneously receives from each warehouse material handling performance, to the material carries on the storehouse area and the Provide optimization conditions for scheduling.

The real time control of production cost collects the cost data of each process according to the predetermined cost center, also collects the energy consumption data in the production process, and completes the dynamic accounting of the production cost to the related system.

The monitoring of production equipment provides the monitoring function of various equipments, provides the real-time basis for the dynamic production planning, and tracks the operation status and production process of all equipment, such as steelmaking, refining, continuous casting, hot rolling, cold rolling and finishing, to ensure the real-time dynamic adjustment of the Operation plan.

Main features of the programme

Metallurgical industry and process manufacturing industry is the largest production of raw materials with chemical, physical phase transformation and other reactions and changes in the process of continuous processing, so the planned real-time dynamic scheduling requirements are high. Bao-Xin Information Technology program has a strong integration planning and real-time dynamic optimization functions, linkage in manufacturing standards, quality design and quality control model of the accumulated experience can be adapted to the metallurgical industry and process manufacturing industry needs.

In the long experience accumulation process, the Treasure letter uses the component technology, the function covers the production line, uses the common module and the same processing logic to the same place, therefore may widely use in the different steel mills.

This scheme integrates a lot of real-time processing technology, whether it is scheduling, quality determination or production performance collection, cost accounting can be triggered by events in production, real-time billing and instant processing, in order to meet the Agile manufacturing provides a foundation.

For iron and steel enterprises with different production lines, Bao Xin's information technology can have different function configurations, which can be applied to large steel enterprises as well as to the needs of small and medium-sized iron and steel enterprises.

Significant benefits

Bao Xin information technology has been applied to various iron and steel enterprises, in addition to Baosteel AG, Ningbo bao new stainless steel company, Shanghai Steel Company, Shanghai Yi-chang sheet, Maanshan Iron and Steel Company, Lianyuan Steel Company and a large number of enterprises.

The use of Bao-Xin information program, in improving product quality, shorten manufacturing time, reduce manufacturing costs and so on, the enterprises have achieved obvious benefits, the level of management of enterprises has fundamentally been a step. Not only that, Bao Xin Information program also has a strong expansibility, now has been well extended to E-commerce, customer Relationship Management (CRM) and supply chain Management (SCM), data warehousing and data mining and other fields, to achieve online inquiries, online procurement, online ordering functions, so that enterprises transformed into "customer-centric" New system to continuously meet the needs of changing markets.