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Steel mini-mill

An electric arc furnace and a caster in one material flow over OPC UA, where a slag foam collapse sets the month billed demand charge.

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How it works

A steel mini-mill: 8 devices and 122 tags over OPC UA, and the only solution here that is batch and continuous in one material flow.

An electric arc furnace melts a heat to ISA-88 while a caster runs a strand continuously, and a ladle joins the two. The caster is the pacemaker and the melt shop is sized to run about a minute ahead of it, so a delay upstream propagates rather than being absorbed.

Nothing in the cost chain is a rule that says if fault then cost. Slag foam collapses, the arc radiates at the panels instead of the bath, meltdown stretches, the heat taps late, the tundish runs down, the melter pushes a higher transformer tap to protect the sequence, and the billed 15-minute demand peak moves with it.

It also shows Litmus Edge as an aggregator: the mill is republished northbound through the Edge own OPC UA server, so the full chain runs simulator to Edge client driver to DeviceHub to Edge server to MES.

EAF melt shop and continuous caster read over OPC UA: heat in progress, specific energy, billed demand peak, demand charge, tap to tap and grade compliance above the furnace, ladle furnace, tundish and mould flow
The same mini-mill on heat 7 at 118 MW mill demand, with the billed demand peak at 145.1 MW driving a 1.8 million dollar monthly demand charge and no grade downgrades

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