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First Steps Toward the Fully Automated Steel Mill: From the Planning of Ladles to the Transport (Room 315)

The central logistics in a steel mill revolve around the subject “material transport.” This includes the hot metal ladle and the steel ladle transport. This paper deals with the increase in the automation level around ladle transport from automatic scheduling, automatic maintenance planning, up to automatic crane transport and its legal requirements. A first approach is outlined that pursues the goal of a fully automated steel mill focused on steel ladles.