Design of a Digital Management System for the Sintering Material Ground

There are many kinds and a large number of raw materials in the sintering material ground to be managed, while it is difficult to obtain the precise inventory values, which often leads to high cost. Furthermore, the external factors of material ground are difficult to handle, such as weather variation, order fluctuation, measurement failure and so on. To solve such raw material management problems, a digital management system has been developed. First, the practical requirements and the raw material management processes are analyzed. Then, optimization and prediction methods are used to calculate the inventory according to the practical situation. With the help of practical technologies and production conditions, the developed system has been applied to a large-scale sintering material ground. The practical running results of the application demonstrate the validity of the proposed digital management system.