In the iron and steel industry, it is crucial to improve the quality of not only products but also manufacturing and operation technologies, as well as to address environmental and energy-efficiency issues. Yokogawa helps customers to create the ideal plant and evolves with them for mutual growth.
Process Diagram
Iron Making Applications
Yokogawa helps leading-edge Iron and Steel plants through automation solutions that enable plant-wide integration and lifecycle optimization. Here is a quick list of Iron Making units and applications for which Yokogawa has a global network of experts at your service, providing comprehensive automation solutions.
Raw Material
- Raw Material Weighing
- Rotary Kiln
- Raw Material Mixing
- Raw Material Distribution
- Raw Material Analysis
- Raw Material Yard
- Yard Operation Planning
- Lime Kiln
Sintering
- Sinter Plant
- Waste Heat Recovery Boiler
- Waste Water Treatment
- Denitrate Plant
- Granulation Plant
Pellet
- Pelletizing Plant
- Formed Coal Plant
- Pulverized Coal Moisture Control
- Granulation Dephosphorization Plant
Coke
- Coke Oven
- Coal Selection and Transportation
- Coke Dry Quenching Plant
By-product
- Waste Acid Recovery
- Naphthalene Distillation
- Gas Cooling
- Light Oil Equipment
- Gas Distribution
- Ammonium Sulfate Recovery
- Ammonia Water Deoxidation
- NCL Recovery
- Coke Oven Gas Desulphurization
- Tar Distillation
- Denitrate Plant
- Sludge Treatment
Blast Furnace
- Blast Furnace Proper Instrumentation
- Hot Stove
- Wet-and-Dry Type Dust Collection
- Top Pressure Recovery Turbine
- Melted Iron Weighing
- Dephosphorization
- Tuyere Cooling Water Monitoring
- Blower
- Pulverized Coal Injection
Direct Reduction
- Midrex Plant
- Direct Iron Ore Smelting Reduction Process
Steel Making Applications
Yokogawa helps leading-edge Iron and Steel plants through automation solutions that enable plant-wide integration and lifecycle optimization. Here is a quick list of Steel Making units and applications for which Yokogawa has a global network of experts at your service, providing comprehensive automation solutions.
Hot Metal Post-Treatment
Converter
- Cenverter Instrumentation
- Slag Flowing-Out Detection
- Gas Recovery
- Fusion Reduction Furnace
- Tuyere Exhaust Diagnosis
Electric Arc Furnace
Continuous Casting
- Secondary Cooling Water Flow Control
- Tundish Pre-Heating
- Mold Level Control
- Width Variable Control
- Auto Start Stop
- Break Out Prediction
Degassing
- Dortmunt-Horde Degassing
- Ruhrstahl Heraus Degassing
- Argon Oxygen Decarburization
- Vacuum Oxygen Decarburizing
Others
- Melted Steel Treatment
Rolling Mill Applications
Yokogawa helps leading-edge Iron and Steel plants through automation solutions that enable plant-wide integration and lifecycle optimization. Here is a quick list of Rolling Mill units and applications for which Yokogawa has a global network of experts at your service, providing comprehensive automation solutions.
Soaking Pit/Furnace
- Heating Furnace
- Steel Plate Heating Furnace
- Wire Rods Heating Furnace
- Molded Steel Heating Furnace
- Heavy Plate Heating Furnace
- Extra Heavy Plate Heating Furnace
- Bar Steel Heating Furnace
- Lap Weld Pipe Heating Furnace
- Edge Heating Furnace
- Slab Heating Furnace
- Bloom Heating Furnace
- Billet Heating Furnace
Blooming
- Skid Cooling
- Blooming Heating Furnace
Rolling
- Large Mill Instrumentation
- Heavy Plate Acceleration Cooling
- Air Compressor Control
- Data Monitoring Apparatus
- Slab Management
Structural Mill, Bar Steel, Wire Rods
- Wire Rods Heating
- Wire Rods Cooling
- Wire Rods Mist Cooling
- Wire Rods Pickling
- Coil Tracking
Steel Tube/Pipe
- Transportation Control
Annealing
- Continuous Annealing furnace
- Batch Annealing Furnace
- Wire Rods Continuous Annealing Furnace
- Bar Steel Continuous Annealing Furnace
- Bright Annealing Furnace
- Aluminium Continuous Annealing Furnace
- Stainless Steel Continuous Annealing Furnace
- Electrical Steel Plate Annealing Furnace
- Large Size Pipe Annealing Furnace
Others
- Various Heat Treatment
Oil Cellar
- Tandem Cold-Rolling Mill
Surface Finishing Applications
Yokogawa helps leading-edge Iron and Steel plants through automation solutions that enable plant-wide integration and lifecycle optimization. Here is a quick list of Surface Finishing units and applications for which Yokogawa has a global network of experts at your service, providing comprehensive automation solutions.
Surface Finishing
- Pickling Line
- Tinning
- Continuance Galvanizing
- Electric Galvanizing
- Coating
- Laminating
Others
- Acid Recovery
Utility Applications
Yokogawa helps leading-edge Iron and Steel plants through automation solutions that enable plant-wide integration and lifecycle optimization. Here is a quick list of Utility units and applications for which Yokogawa has a global network of experts at your service, providing comprehensive automation solutions.
Utility
- Water Treatment
- Pure Water Equipment
- Oxygen Plant
- Nitrogen Plant
- Hydrogen Plant
- Air Separation Unit
- Waste Oil Disposal Plant
- Boiler Control
- Generator Control
- Energy Center
- Gas Blender
First generation CENTUM had contributed to the production of high-quality steel product at the NSSMC's Yawata Works for 33 years.
Yokogawa had pursued innovation of process control technology with the customer during the decades.
The Japan Steel Works, LTD., Muroran Plant uses the Control and Measurement Station CX2000, UP series program controllers, and UT series digital indicating controllers for operation of its heat treating furnaces.
The CX Series of control and measurement stations monitor furnace temperature in tunnel kiln furnaces and the like using Faceplate and Trend screens that come as standard features.
In a hot blast stove, the by-product gas produced in a coke oven is burned to preheat the air blast for the blast furnace. To improve the combustion efficiency and conserve energy in a hot blast stove, it is essential to be able to control combustion by measuring and adjusting the oxygen concentration in the exhaust gases.
A furnace for heating slabs needs to be operated under low oxygen conditions at high temperatures of 1000°C and above to prevent oxidation of the steel. The measurement of oxygen concentrations in the furnace is essential in this process. (AN 10M01F01-03E)
The world of process automation is governed by procedures. While we like to refer to the process industries as being largely "continuous", this could not be further from the truth. Process manufacturing is constantly in flux.
The automation suppliers that will be successful in the long term will be those that effectively address application or industry specific problems for end users with a value proposition that cannot be ignored. These problems exist throughout the process industries today, and they won't be solved by simply offering a product, but through a combination of hardware, software, services, application expertise, and knowledge.
Yokogawa has come a long way in making its message clear to the world of process automation. Last year, the company embarked on a full-scale global marketing campaign to make customers aware of the company's focus on system reliability, security, dependability, and robustness. Dubbed "Vigilance", the campaign created a unified message for the company and greatly helped expand awareness of the Yokogawa brand and corporate philosophy.
Process automation end users are under more pressure than ever to do more with less. The current economic climate means that many automation capital projects are on hold. With capital budgets tighter than ever, users instead focus on operational budgets (where cost cutting is also a key concern), or on automation investments with a very rapid return on investment.
In today's dynamic industrial marketplace, the only constant is change. Raw material costs, energy costs, market demands, environmental and safety regulations, technology, and even the nature of the labor force itself are constantly changing, and not always in predictable directions.
Honeywell and Yokogawa have both been producing Distributed Control System (DCS) platforms for decades, and both are very active in this area. In 1975, Honeywell introduced its TDC2000 platform and Yokogawa brought out CENTUM. These two competing systems emerged from a similar place, oil refining and petrochemical industries, so they started out with similar basic concepts and use cases in mind.
Instruction Manuels
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Vue d’ensemble
The YSS1000 setting software (hereinafter referred to as the YSS1000) is package software to configure the functions of the YS1000 series (hereinafter referred to as the YS1000) devices. Writing and reading of parameters and user programs of the YS1000, and PID tuning and monitoring of user programs can be performed through the use of communication.
- For improved agility in implementing control system projects -
- Optimizes the supply chain and operations by enabling plant personnel to work more efficiently -