A big leap has been achieved by SAIL-Bokaro Steel Plant in the strategic direction of Digital Transformation with the beginning of trials of the Artificial Intelligence Based Predictive Monitoring System at various shops such as Blast Furnace, Sinter Plant and Hot Strip Mill in collaboration with Hyderabad based company M/S MINTO AI.
Under this trial, Current based Smart sensors have been installed at equipment’s such as cold screen motor of Sinter Plant, rotation motor for material distribution in Blast Furnace and Crane Main Hoist Motors at Hot Strip Mill, which work on the spidersense, an Industrial IoT platform of M/S MINTO AI. These sensors use AI, deep process knowledge and physics to provide operational Intelligence to plant engineers and operators which help in planning the maintenance based on predictive monitoring and alerts.
The trial execution of this predictive monitoring system was coordinated by the convener of Centre for Digital Transformation, Saurabh Singh, Sr. Mgr (EMD) under the guidance of S. Mukhopadhyay, CGM (Maint.) , Ved Prakash, CGM (Elect.), Bipin Sartape, CGM (CA&C) along with different executives from various Shops.