PIONEERING STEEL INDUSTRY SOLUTIONS Danieli ranks among the world’s top three suppliers of equipment and plant to the steel industry. Danieli Automation is a leading company within the Danieli Group and responsible for the transfer of technological knowhow from other Danieli divisions. It also provides the interface between the plant process and the plant operator. Philip Yorke looks at a company that has pioneered the design of automation equipment and electrical systems for the metal foundry industry.
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he Danieli Group is headquartered in Buttrio, north-east Italy and was founded in 1914 when two brothers, Mario and Timo Danieli founded the Angelini Steelworks in Brescia, Italy. Based upon the intuition of Mr Luigi Danieli, Danieli Automation (DA) was founded in 1969. This vision soon became reality when a team of electrical engineers began to work with their mechanical counterparts, thus starting the design and production of electrical systems for the steel industry. Today the company supplies complete electrical and automation equipment for every type and size of plant in the metal industry.
Broad spectrum Danieli’s mission is to provide process automation and control systems to the steel industry that cover the broad spectrum of Danieli technology, which ranges from iron ore to long and flat products. In addition, the company produces special instruments and
sensors to meet the growing demand from steel producers for sophisticated controls, quality certification, cost optimisation and fast adaptation to the latest systems. Today the company is entering the market with a new family of smart and flexible devices based on the use of industrial cameras and image processing systems. The latest contribution from Danieli Automation involves the development of modular hardware and software architecture, called Q-VID. One of the many new applications of this novel architecture is a system that combines the use of four cameras that monitor the external diameter and length of round, hot billets or pipe shells in the intermediate phase of the rolling process. Furthermore, the outstanding performance of the company’s latest QDRIVE MV System was also realised when the company completed a major shipment of MV cabinets for the Qdrive MV drive system for the Hot Strip
Mill Roughing Stand for the major Dunaferr revamping project. The large motor supplied by DA has a shaft height of approximately 2500mm and weighs around 170 tonnes.
Expanding global markets Danieli Automation continues to increase its global presence in more ways than one. Earlier this year the company announced the merger of its US division in Pittsburgh PA, with the independent systems integrator, Taranis Inc. which is located in Birmingham, Alabama. The newly formed Danieli Taranis LLC began operating in the North American market in July this year and provides electrical engineering and equipment, as well as automation and process controls for the North American steel industry. On the other side of the world in Indonesia, Danieli Automation has provided a new ‘Hi-profile’ for a ‘Multistrand rebar’ system in Jakarta. The company will replace the
