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Quad Infotech Implements [QMOS] MES system at Gerdau Ameristeel Plant
Sep. 29, 2010 Quad Infotech has started the implementation of its [QMOS] MES system at Gerdau Ameristeel's Sayreville's plant, which will allow Sayreville to coordinate its steelmaking and rolling operations from the scrap yard through to bundling and shipping operations.
Gerdau expects the advanced Spec Management and QC functions in [QMOS] to provide the Sayreville plant with enhanced quality-control capabilities through each step of the operation. The advanced scheduling and material assignment functions in [QMOS] is expected to improve coordination among Sayreville’s production units in the melt shop and the rolling mill, allowing it to provide better production and delivery schedules to customers.
[QMOS] also offers advanced data analysis tools as well as standard and custom production and KPI reports for targeted process analysis and performance evaluation.
Gerdau Ameristeel is the second-largest minimill steel producer in North America with annual manufacturing capacity of more than 9.0 million tons of mill finished steel products. Through its vertically integrated network of 17 minimills (including one 50%-owned minimill), 17 scrap recycling facilities, and 46 downstream operations, the company primarily serves customers in the eastern two-thirds of North America.
Quad Infotech is a software engineering and design company that specializes in the development of industrial computer software for the steel industry. Quad's combination of steelmaking and rolling process knowledge, combined with computer software design expertise, renders Quad's Level-2 and Level-3 software products unique in the global steel minimill market. [QMOS] has been operating in numerous steel plants throughout North America and Europe since 1994.