Focus Area

• Requirements Engineering and Management
• Scrap Yard Management and Charge Design
• Strategic Metallurgy & Process Development

Short Description

As part of this feasibility study, we analyze the existing production and quality data of the aluminium melting operation at the client with the aim of evaluating the potential for data-driven raw material optimization. The study includes in particular:

• an on-site visit to assess the local production conditions;
• an evaluation of the data basis with regard to completeness, consistency, and suitability for model development;
• an analysis of historical production data (e.g. scrap quantities, melting parameters, chemical analyses) in order to identify relevant correlations between scrap usage and melt quality;
• the development of a concept to determine whether, and in what form, a raw material optimization software solution (or a customer-specific adapted version) can be applied to this process;
• an assessment of the economic potential, for example through the reduction of impurities, minimization of primary aluminium usage, and optimized scrap planning.

Special attention is given to the possibility of retrospectively evaluating scrap qualities on the basis of the available process and analysis data, in order to enable a more targeted use of critical scrap grades in the future. With the objective of reducing the existing production complexity (multiple parallel production lines, melting furnaces, holding furnaces), this study is focused on only one production line, consisting of one shredder plant and one melting furnace, in order to assess the general feasibility.

The result of the feasibility study is a final report containing an evaluation of the technical and economic feasibility of implementing an individual raw material optimization software solution for the operation at the customer.