Automation Division, Tata Steel Limited is the central agency for design, development, integration and implementation of Process Automation for the steel company and is also an international supplier of High Level Automation for the metal industry. It is situated in the premises of the steel company at Jamshedpur.
We have expertise in conceiving and implementing total automation solutions involving, instrumentation, system integration, process modeling, communication and software development with approaches incorporating concepts of fuzzy logic, artificial neural network, etc. We are a multi-disciplinary group with about 110 bright, highly qualified and dedicated pool of engineers / scientists / professionals with wide industrial experience. Close association and interaction with premier Research and Academic Institutions like IITs, ERDC, MIT USA, etc. for collaborative research help us excel in various fields. A number of systems designed are backed by intensive research that has been tried successfully within the steel company. A well-equipped Automation Development Centre with state-of-the-art automation systems, equipment and instruments performs the core R&D activities. It also houses advanced laboratories to carry out research in the fields of Lasers, Communication, Instrumentation and Electronics. Our cross-functional workforce is well versed in developing software on various hardware and software platforms like VAX/VMS, Itanium, Alpha, SUN computers Silicon Graphics machines and PC based platforms using operating systems such as LINUX, UNIX, VMS, Windows NT, Windows 2003, etc. Expertise is also available in developing Database systems using ORACLE RDBMS and web based systems. Automation at Tata Steel Limited follows
the Purdue model of Automation Hierarchy.
The product and process offerings of Automation Division, Tata Steel Limited is focused in the following areas:
Automation systems for the Raw Material Area include Mine Scheduling System, GPS based Truck dispatch system, Radio based communication, machine positioning and identification (Autospot), model based heating control system for Coke Oven Batteries The Iron making area incorporates Furnace viewing apparatus, PC based Level I automation and Mathematical model based level II automation systems. The Steel making area incorporates the Level II system for LD process, Automated Steel ladle tracking system, Slag Monitoring and Detection System, Mould Breakout Detection system (MBDS) and Computer Aided Quality Assessment for the Slab Caster (CAQA) Rolling Mills area have Reheating furnace optimization, Looper Control, Hot Metal Detectors, Vision Based Online Crop Optimisation System Opticrop, Width Gauge, Level II system for HSM, Level II automation for Roughing Mill & Finishing Mill areas of HSM and the Surface Defect Logging system in CRM We have offerings for the Dispatch area such as Slab Yard Management System, Coil Yard Management System, Rebar Mill Yard Management System, Coil Tracking Transport System and Laser Based Crane Automation systems. Automation Division, Tata Steel Limited is structured around various expertise groups as under:
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