■ What I want to achieve
・Decarbonization, reducing CO2 emissions
- Improved energy efficiency
-Increased use of scrap steel
Improved automation and process management

■Challenges
・To optimize and automate operations, it is necessary to monitor the temperature and condition inside the furnace, but there is no way to do so.
・We want to optimize the timing of scrap feeding to improve energy efficiency, but we can't do it because we don't know the condition inside the furnace.

■ Solution
・Monitoring the inside of the furnace using a camera that can visualize the inside of the furnace

■ Advantages
・Reduction of power consumption by optimizing scrap input timing
・Automating scrap input timing and improving processes to reduce labor and improve quality

■ What I want to achieve
- Monitoring damage to ladle shell
- Trend monitoring of equipment deterioration

■Challenges
・The ladle is subject to large thermal stress due to repeated heating and cooling, and the deterioration of the refractory material can lead to molten metal leaks.
・If a molten metal leak occurs, there is a possibility that serious injury may occur.

■ Solution
・Prevention of molten metal leakage and optimization of maintenance timing by monitoring the ladle surface temperature can be achieved using standard application software.

■ Advantages
- Improving work site safety and working conditions
・Reduction of worker man-hours

■ What I want to achieve
・Automating and digitalizing quality control
・Increased production of high quality products

■Challenges
・Production temperature trends cannot be managed for each lot
・It is difficult to maintain stable slab quality
・Deterioration of skills due to lack of workers

■ Solution
・Automate processes and standardize skills by measuring and quantifying surface temperature distribution using infrared cameras/radiation thermometers

■ Advantages
・Improved quality control
・Building a database of manufacturing temperature quality
・Automating the cooling process

■ What I want to achieve
- Improving work site safety and working conditions
・Resolving employment issues to ensure business continuity

■Challenges
- Dangerous working environment
・Due to the declining birthrate and aging population, the number of beginner workers is increasing, which poses safety issues.
・Quality is affected by differences in worker skills

■ Solution
- Quantification of slag residue rate using infrared cameras and judgment software
・Automating furnace front work by linking slag removal equipment and infrared cameras

■ Advantages
- Improving work site safety and working conditions
・Improve quality
・Reduction of worker man-hours

■ What I want to achieve
- Compliance with environmental regulations
・Automated control
・Improvement of sensing technology

■Challenges
・Compliance with environmental regulations is necessary but not possible
・The size of the flame coming out of the flare stack cannot be monitored.
・Control cannot be performed according to the combustion conditions

■ Solution
・Use flare stack monitoring sensors to monitor and store the size of the flames with time stamps.
- Quantify and control the size of the flare

■ Advantages
・Environmental regulations can be met
・Operations can be automated

■ What I want to achieve
・Achieving carbon neutrality
- Improved energy efficiency

■Challenges
・Electric furnaces and industrial furnaces used in steel and casting consume a lot of electricity and are the dominant source of energy consumption within the factory, but the power consumption is not being managed.

■ Solution
・Optimize the operation process by visualizing power usage status by acquiring temperature measurements using infrared cameras and radiation thermometers, as well as the power and operating status of each piece of equipment.

■ Advantages
- Reduced power consumption
- Improving operational processes to reduce power consumption