Team News Riveting
Raipur, July 16
The PLC-based automated system to handle 260-metre-long rail welded panels in the Long Rail Complex of SAIL-Bhilai Steel Plant’s Rail and Structural Mill has been upgraded.
Spares of the older system installed 20 years ago had become in-operational as a result of which long rail production and despatches suffered as and when breakdowns occurred. Members of the Rail and Structural Mill team led by MM Gadre, CGM (RSM, RTS & RPDB) along with Asit Saha, CGM (Instrumentation & Automation), Samir Singh, GM (Rail Mill-Electrical) and SS Sorte, GM (Electrical) decided on upgrading the older system.
The technical specifications of the upgradation job were prepared jointly by Rail Mill and INCOS department of the Plant. The job was carried out by Rail Mill Electrical Section and Energia Systems Pvt Ltd. Care was taken that rail production and loading did not suffer during the upgrade. A team led by Prashant Lakhe, GM (Rail Mill-Electrical), HR Meghwal, GM (Electrical-Planning) and Abhilash Gupta, AGM and Nishant Singh, Manager executed the job in record time.
Significantly, the upgrading job was done in a short period of only two days. Now, as a result of the upgradation, loading of 260-metre-long rail welded panels onto wagons can be done faster with the help of telphers and at the same time, any electrical faults can be rectified easily. Moreover, this will enable operators to keep watch on loading operations taking place at a distance from their cabin. In the future, the system can be connected to the MES system for keeping online records of loading.
