Rungta Mines Awarded AIC an order for the automation and Drive systems for their 350,000 TPA Bar mill in April 2022, the mill started producing in Feb 23, a record considering the supply chain constraints imposed due to COVID.
The mill is closely coupled to the Caster and the mill is continuously hot charged after being fed through an inductor heater to prevent any heat loss and make billets available to the Rolling mill at a temperature of 950~1000 deg C. The scope of supply consists of:
- Sinamics S120 Drive Systems for the main drives with Active Front End Rectifier and G120 drives for the auxiliary Systems;
- Automation system based on S71500 systems with Profinet interface to the drive systems;
- Shear and Highspeed equipment controlled by Motion controller from Siemens;
- HMI systems was based on WinCC in a fully redundant client server configuration.
The Complete mill was supplied by a fully automatic system that set up the mill through a Recipe system which was integrated with the HMI system, the High level of Automation provided a quick learning curve and the customer benefited from ramping up the production within one week of startup.
