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Industry: Email Alert RSS FeedUpgrading a steel mill--wirelessly: when Steel of West Virginia set out to reinstrument one of its mills, wireless sensing took the sting out of the upgrade.
Sensors Magazine, November, 2005 by Kevan, Tom
Steel of West Virginia (SWV, www.swvainc.com), a subsidiary of Roanoke Electric Steel, owns and operates a minimill in Huntington, West Virginia, and steel-fabrication facilities in Tennessee and West Virginia. The company makes finished steel products, including structural beams, channels, and special-shape sections, which are used in trucks, trailers, heavy machinery, and manufactured housing, as well as in guardrail posts, mining applications, and light-rail systems.
Harsh conditions at the Huntington mill--high temperatures as well as airborne slag dust and magnetic material--had taken their toll on the sensors that monitor operations and the wiring that connects them to the mill's data center. "We decided to change the monitoring infrastructure of the...
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