Jinchuan Group: the largest intelligent nickel packaging production line in the country to achieve fully automatic production.

Published: Apr 12, 2021 14:38
Source: Jinchuan Group

Recently, the unmanned crane system for the delivery process of the finished product intelligent workshop of the nickel smelter, the first intelligent workshop of Jinchuan Group, has been officially launched, and for the first time it has been running continuously for 24 hours, shipping 1470 tons of nickel products. This marks the realization of mechanization, automation and informationization of the whole production line of the largest intelligent nickel packaging workshop in the country.

The finished product workshop of nickel smelter is the last process of nickel industry chain in Jinchuan Group. Before the project is implemented, it is a typical workshop with low degree of mechanization, high labor intensity and many safety risks. At the beginning of the year, the nickel smelter began to implement the transformation of the intelligent workshop, which has successively completed the intelligent research and application of the pre-treatment process, the intelligent research and application of the nickel processing and packaging unit, the intelligent improvement of the comprehensive capacity of the three-dimensional warehouse and transportation supporting facilities, the improvement of the intelligent ability of comprehensive management and control, and the research and application of intelligent loading of cranes. construction of five projects.

The transformation and opening of the unmanned crane system, through the latest technology enabling it to have high-precision positioning, intelligent operation and other functions, is one of the key projects of Jinchuan Group's "5G + Industrial Internet Application" integration and innovation. The operation of the intelligent unmanned crane has realized the organic linkage operation of loading and unloading, shearing, shaping, flattening, weighing, spraying code, baling, jin inspection, warehousing, loading and other links, so that the shipping system of the finished product workshop has been manually operated by more than ten people in the past, reduced to the current automatic control of two people, and greatly improved the production efficiency, especially in loading and shipping, the harm to the human body can be avoided to the maximum extent. Make the production operation more safe and efficient.

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