sponge iron industry –past-present-future - SIMA

TATA SPONGE RECEIVES CII – ORISSA IT
AWARDS FOR THE YEAR 2010
Sidheswar Jena, AGM(ITS) to the left and Bijayananda Das, Manager(Operation) to the right
receiving CII-IT Awards 2010 from Shri Mukul Somany, Chairman, CII (Eastern Region)
Tata Sponge has bagged CII – Orissa IT Awards 2010
for successful implementation and use of
eLOGBOOK(electronic logbook) software for process
control. The software has been developed in-house
by the Information Technology Department and
successfully deployed with the help of Operation
Department for the DRI process in all its 3 Kilns.
Coal based DRI plants often experience problems
with respect to formation of accretion resulting in
reduced production rate & shorter campaign life,
fluctuation in product quality, high coal consumption,
etc. The problem is compounded with deteriorating
quality of coal and iron ore particularly for
manufacturers compelled to use multiple sources of
raw materials with deteriorating and varying quality.
The operator is faced with frequent changes in the
input characteristics affecting process stability and
is required to often manipulate large number of
parameters to maintain a stable process condition,
which is a very difficult task.
eLOGBOOK software captures all data from
laboratory analysis, PLC systems, and SAP ERP
application into a single repository and provides
information such as user friendly queries, trends and
correlated trends, and critical process parameters online
to the operator for better process control. The
company has realized significant benefits from this
application as it evident from the marked
improvements in campaign lives & capacity
utilizations during 2009-10 which is being sustained
during the current financial year too.
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