Development of Full Automatic Sample Preparation and Analysis System for Powdered Sample and Pig Iron

Abstract

A modern analytical computer system has been established as a part of totalized steelmaking information system at the Mizushima works, Kawasaki Steel Corporation. The modernization of the analytical system aimed at automating and refreshing of analytical equipments and real time data processing.
New computer and electronic technologies and hierarchical structure of computer have realized the system which has centralized the management of information and distributed the control for analytical equipments.
Furthermore, this system has contributed to improve the reliability through improvement in analytical precision, and also contributed to a decrease in operator's labor, because this system was automated from sample preparation to calculation of analytical contents for powdered samples and pig iron.
The process control and the quality assurance have been strengthened by the completion of this system.