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ArcelorMittal

Retrofit and Modernization of the Wire Drawing System

To strengthen its position in the South American metallurgy market, the company relied on Altus to provide the advanced automation technology required to improve product quality and increase the production capacity of its wire manufacturing facility.

With this partnership, the plant gained greater process stability, enhanced control precision, and improved operational efficiency, key factors for competitiveness in the metallurgy sector.

Retrofitting of Furnaces and Wire Drawing Machine

With advanced features such as hot-swapping, I/O module expansion, and a scalable architecture based on deterministic Ethernet, the NX Series programmable controllers are suitable for both standalone machines and distributed systems. This flexibility, combined with high performance and reliability, made Nexto technology the ideal choice as the core platform for upgrading one of ArcelorMittal’s production plants.

In this project, Altus equipment was applied to retrofit the multi-pass wire drawing machine with an integrated winder, as well as five annealing furnaces used in the production of wires for the annealed wire market. The modernization enhanced process control, improved operational stability, and increased overall production efficiency, ensuring higher product quality and greater competitiveness in the metallurgy sector.

High precision

Highly accurate control of critical process variables such as temperature, pressure, and more

Accurate data

The embedded technology in this solution delivers highly accurate data throughout the process

Remote Supervision

The WebServer feature available on the Nexto CPU allows remote access to the supervision system via any browser

Full control

The control system is fully customized to meet the specific needs of the process

Key benefits of the new system

The fully automated control system for the plant includes six CPUs, one MODBUS/TCP NX5100 remote unit, and a series of modules handling over 2,300 I/O points to manage the drawing machine and five annealing furnaces. The architecture also features a NX3008 media converter from the Connect Series and a seven-inch HMI from the X2-BASE Series.

The NX3005 CPU was chosen to optimize both the wire drawing machine and the annealing furnaces. This unit comes with an integrated power supply, high processing speeds, handling 1,000 Boolean instructions every 6 microseconds, and ample data storage capacity.