Customer Success Stories > Metal Products

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DMS Powders - Where Real-Time Analysis of Plant Effectiveness Is Eliminating Inefficiency
Producing nearly 40,000 tons of metallic powder each year, DMS (Dense Media Separators) Powders is the largest producer of both atomized and milled FeSi (ferrosilicon) in the world. FeSi is used as media in mineral and metal separation processes. DMS Powders has been gradually extending its industrial automation initiatives to improve yield through better control over the effectiveness of the plant's production processes...
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—released 4/14/2004

Enhanced performance and quality thanks to a centralized standard solution for process data acquisition and visual display
“Thanks to the technology from Wonderware,
we have succeeded in meeting the flexibility
operation and monitoring requirements of
modern production facilities.”
Stefan Jaschke, Plant Manager TSE,
Arcelor Bremen GmbH
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—released 9/28/2007

Showa Denko Carbon Deploys Wonderware® Plant Intelligence Solution to Streamline Production and Track Product Geneaology
Ridgeville, S.C. -- The Showa Denko Carbon plant is one of the world's leading producers of graphite electrodes used to fire electric arc furnaces for making carbon and alloy steels. Hidden among the Carolina pines and palm trees just up the highway from the stately mansions of oceanfront Charleston, the Showa Denko plant is a well-kept business secret, despite its importance to the steel industry...
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—released 4/14/2004

Software Objects a Real Blast
“Deployment was a key aspect as the next
blower could be done without stopping the first
– with full confidence that Wonderware
Application Server would perform correctly”
Martyn King, Project Engineer,
Corus Automation Solutions.
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—released 9/28/2007

Equipment Performance Module

Historian (IndustrialSQL Server)

Global Steel Industry Leader, Nucor Steel, Revolutionizes Production with Wonderware
Since ancient metal workers first created it by removing nearly all of the impurities from iron at least 3,000 years ago, steel has had a profound impact on civilization. From the hand-forged weapons that gave tribal leaders a dominant advantage over their bronze-equipped neighbors to the mass-produced railway lines and trains that drove the industrial revolution that forged the world we live in today, the common, critical ingredient has been steel.
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—released 6/8/2005

SEW Eurodrive, Lyman, South Carolina
SEW Eurodrive's Lyman Plant Uses Wonderware's Production & Performance Management Software Solutions to Gear Up for Success!
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—released 7/2/2007

Industrial Application Server

Information Server (SuiteVoyager)

InTouch

Asarco Inc. Enhances Copper Rod Production Using InTouch® Software
Amarillo, TX -- Common sense says you can't push a piece of string to move it, you have to pull it. Almost the same applies in making copper rod --- only it's harder. You can't push or pull a cast bar of copper when you're making copper rod stock that will be manufactured into wire. Excessive tension in either direction has negative results on the quality of the final product. Managing this key problem was just one of the factors faced by the Rodline staff at Asarco, Incorporated...
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—released 10/6/2002

Manufacturing Execution Module

Brollo RIH Group Steel Pipe & Tube Warehouse Application Case Study
Boksburg, South Africa -- Problem: Inefficiencies in storage and distribution of steel pipe and tube products at a central distribution warehouse serving multiple steel plants. Customer service was affected by all of these inefficiencies, requiring rework or duplicate work. Inventory costs were high due to lack of organized information on inventory, deliveries of finished goods from production plants and shipment of goods to customer sites. Inventory turns were longer than necessary, increasing cost of goods...
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—released 7/26/2002

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