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ArcelorMittal to Rollout AIS BetaPlanner on 11 Coating and Finishing Lines in Liège, Belgium - 10 Sep 2007
After a comprehensive selection process, Arcelor Steel Belgium, member of the ArcelorMittal Group, has selected the AIS BetaPlanner solution for the optimization of the detailed scheduling of its finishing facilities.
The BetaPlanner of AIS is a leading solution for the short term detailed scheduling optimization of rolling mills which will be implemented on all the downstream production lines:
- 1 continuous annealing line
- 4 galvanizing lines
- 3 organic coating lines
- 3 electro-galvanizing lines
Since last year, ArcelorMittal is undergoing a major project to unify the production environment of their 5 production sites in Liège. Part of this ambitious project was the need of an automated scheduling system for the coating and finishing lines. The flexibility and ease of implementation of the BetaPlanner solution, together with its more than 70 implementations worldwide, was a
decisive factor in the selection process.
Mr. Jean-Christophe Botteman, Project Manager ArcelorMittal says: "With this project, we target to increase the quality of the production sequences, with the different business gains linked to it. We selected AIS mainly for the maturity of their solution BetaPlanner, concerning the short term scheduling optimization and editing".
The project will start in Q3 2007 with the implementation of one galvanizing line. The go-live of the different instances of BetaPlanner will be spread over two years according to the rollout plan of the new production environment.
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The AlphaPlanner system has provided us valuable insight into our caster melt demand which as improved our ability for production planning and capacity optimization. With Alpha Planner, we have seen our productivity increase along with steelmaking delivery performance and this has translated into better on-time product shipments and satisfied customers.
