India’s JSW Steel Limited and Japan’s JFE Steel Corporation have commenced a pilot demonstration of cloud-based cyber-physical system (CPS) technologies for blast furnace operations at JSW Steel’s Vijayanagar steel mill in the southern state of Karnataka, a company statement said on Tuesday, July 2.
With the revolutionary digital project, JSW Steel will leverage data science technologies in a cloud environment to enhance efficiency of its blast furnace operations in the manufacturing of steel, the statement said.
This is the first project wherein JFE provides its proprietary CPS capability to JSW Steel through a cloud-based environment, it added.
JSW Steel and JFE will jointly operate the cloud-based data science technology called Blast Furnace Cyber-Physical System (BF-CPS) at JSW Steel’s Vijayanagar mill.
The BF-CPS intervention will enable JSW Steel to visualize and predict the blast furnace operations as well as aid in abnormality predictiveness through a hot metal temperature control model and channelling prediction, enabling JSW Steel to reduce operational impediments at its blast furnaces, resulting in agile and stable operational outcomes.
The technology is also expected to contribute to a reduction of CO2 emissions in blast furnace operations, the company said. JFE has introduced this technology across all of its seven blast furnaces and has continuously achieved highly efficient and stable operations, it added.