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PSI Solidifies Leading Market Position with Additional Order for Steel
Plant Control System
Peiner Träger decides in favor of production management system PSImetals
PSI has been awarded by the Peiner Träger GmbH with the delivery and
implementation of the production management system PSImetals for the
electro-steel plant in Peine. As a producer of structural steel for the
offshore industry and bridges, mining and tunnels, Peiner Träger intends to
further customise their product range for their customers and consequently
to increase the flexibility of the production. As the leading system in the
steel mill, PSImetals will assure the system-optimised operations of the
steel production. Simultaneously, the PSI solution controls and documents
the production process and allows the use of qualitative and economic
potentials in the process.
The process control system for the steel mill is based on the PSImetals
components Production Execution Systems (PES). Precise instructions are
given for every production step and the process is followed and documented.
Peiner Träger expects the improved degree of automation to result in
greater transparency and traceability as well as quality assurance and
improvement through standardised production processes and extensive
analytic possibilities. Cost reductions will be obtained by means of the
functions for evaluating the materials used and the resource management. In
connection with the PSImetals planning solution already being employed, the
internal logistics will be improved by optimising all the sequences in the
system and the transportation routes.
'The decision in favour of PSImetals as steel mill control system completes
our overall IT design for production at the Peine site, because we already
plan both of the rolling mills with PSImetals. In the future we will have a
cross-system planning and production control system with uniform data and
be able to employ a greater degree of automation. The higher degree of
configurability was also important for our users in the steel plant.
Whether in the daily operations, the introduction of new qualities of
steel, modifications in manufacturing processes or the integration of new
aggregates - all the necessary changes can be made independently by us with
the configuration,' explains Arndt Wülfing, Head of Information Technology
at Peiner Träger.
The connection to and integration with PSImetals production planning and
the other associated systems such as SAP, laboratory systems, basic
automation and material tracking systems in the rolling mill are handled by
PSIintegration. The system will be implemented and put into operation in
stages; productive system operation is planned for mid 2010.
The Peiner Träger GmbH is, as a long-steel producer, a part of the Steel
business of the Salzgitter AG steel technology group. The entire process of
structural steel production from the electro-steel mill to the continuous
casting plants to the mill and the finishing lines is handled by the Peine
site. The product range includes standard structural steel as well as
offshore, pit and tempered steels for the highest demands.
PSI AG develops and integrates individual solutions, on the basis of its
own software, for the management of energy networks (electricity, gas, oil,
water, heat), cross-company production management (metals, mechanical
engineering, automotive, logistics) and infrastructure management for
telecommunications, transport and safety. PSI was founded in 1969 and
currently employs 1,250 persons in the group. www.psi.de
PSI AG
Karsten Pierschke
Communications and Investor Relations
Dircksenstraße 42-44
10178 Berlin
Germany
Tel. +49 30 2801-2727
Fax +49 30 2801-1000
E-Mail: KPierschke@psi.de
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Language: English
Issuer: PSI Aktiengesellschaft
Dircksenstraße 42-44
10178 Berlin
Deutschland
Phone: +49 (0)30 2801-0
Fax: +49 (0)30 2801-1000
E-mail: ir@psi.de
Internet: www.psi.de
ISIN: DE000A0Z1JH9
WKN: A0Z1JH
Listed: Regulierter Markt in Frankfurt (Prime Standard); Freiverkehr
in Berlin, Stuttgart, München, Hamburg, Düsseldorf
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