Automation: Process Line Solutions for Metals
We offer turnkey solutions incorporating innovative technologies from across GE’s portfolio to enhance quality, yield, and efficiency while reducing maintenance costs.
Across the globe, we work with companies to revamp plants for new production, increase mill output, and inspect and assess quality, working closely with them to customize solutions for their challenges.
Read more about how GE’s automation initiatives can positively impact production and operations in metals.
Across the globe, we work with companies to revamp plants for new production, increase mill output, and inspect and assess quality, working closely with them to customize solutions for their challenges.
Read more about how GE’s automation initiatives can positively impact production and operations in metals.
Reliable automation of your process lines enhances the quality and yield of your manufacturing process, while improving efficiency and reducing maintenance costs. Learn more about how we can help customize and improve your process line automation.
How it works
- We improve the performance of our customers’ operations, with solutions based on high-performance power electronics and standard automation modules.
- Whether it’s a greenfield project or the modernization of an existing facility, we can help.
- We will work with you to provide process line solutions for carbon/silicon steel and special steel and stainless applications such as annealing lines, anneal & pickle lines, and grinding lines.
- We assess the performance of your steel or non-ferrous process lines in the aluminum and copper industries against key metrics like product quality, plant availability, and process efficiency.
- We recommend software and drive solutions for higher throughput, better quality, improved yield, higher availability, and greater efficiency.With powerful diagnostics, we help maintain your systems at peak performance.
Our approach is based on several key concepts:
• Managed structure
• Reusability
• Consistent model
• Modular economy
• Offline support
Features & Benefits
- Plant throughput rate: Accurate speed control, line setup, high level of automation.
- Product quality: Reporting, tension control, good metallurgy and surface, and presentation of finished coil.
- Percentage yield: Improved coating control, reduced end losses.
- Plant availability: Standardized practices, consistency in operations, fault monitoring, riding through voltage dips.
- Process efficiency: Reduced energy usage, optimal use of resources, operators, and maintenance, lower operational manning costs.
- Customer market share: Closer tolerances, electrical equipment for world-class process lines.
Offerings
- Induction (Asynchronous) Motors and Generators
- DC Motors
