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Quality Tracking System for steel coils project comes to a successful conclusion - EUROFER- The 20th China (Guangzhou) Int’l Plate metal, Bar, wire, Metal Processing &Setting Equipment Exhibition
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The Quality Tracking System for steel coils project governed by the European Steel Association closed after three successful years of development and deployment. The project has contributed to the further digitalisation of the sector and has helped support the ambition to achieve the ‘zero defect vision’ for users of flat steel products. Mr Axel Eggert, Director General of EUROFER said that “The Quality Tracking System, developed by a consortium of our members, with EUROFER acting as the governance body, helps increase the overall resource efficiency of the steel supply chain. The initial objectives of the project have been achieved after three years of close cooperation between all stakeholders.”
Flat steel products, such as sheets, are often delivered to customers as coils. Coils are easier to transport as several hundred metres of steel can be shipped in a relatively compact load. However, steel coils can have isolated quality issues imperfections at points along their length. These isolated flaws can disrupt customers’ processes as finished parts containing the imperfections may be rejected during quality control.
To solve this problem, the Quality Tracking System uses unique ‘1D’ bar codes printed automatically along the coil at regular intervals typically every meter. The quality information, when synchronised with the bar code, provides the position of a flaw. This data, whose content is standardised, allows steel users to avoid that part of the coil during their processes. This means a user can automatically reject a section of steel on the blanking or stamping line.
The Quality Tracking System has been submitted to the European standards body, CEN, with publication of the European standard expected at some point in 2019.
EUROFER became the governance body for the project in February 2016. The steering committee was composed of ArcelorMittal, Tata Steel Europe, thyssenkrupp Steel Europe, voestalpine Stahl and Salzgitter Flachstahl.
Mr Eggert said that “The use of unique ‘1D’ barcodes printed automatically along the coil to identify each section of steel is highly innovative and the five founding members of the project are now equipped with the system. Having a common technical solution enables steel users to work with all steel suppliers in the same way.”
The project’s closing event took place at the EUROFER offices on 23 January 2019 with the support of the founding companies, as well as that of SSAB, Plexant, Octum and Fagor, who have been ordinary members of the project.
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