Blast Furnace

Market

The market for steel and steel products is characterized by worldwide competition and increased precision in the compostition of a great many types of steel. This requires extremely specific blast furnace formulas and furnaces that are constructed very precisely, with a high degree of risk prevention.

Assignment: Bridging the Future

Realize considerable gain of time in global proposal trajectories for formula-specific blast furnaces, improve the quality of proposal designs and reduce project risks.

Approach

The blast furnace is for each project a client-specific design with a product structure which is a combination of assembly-to-order (ATO) and engineer-to-order (ETO) modules and parts. Post en Dekker has mapped out and secured the knowledge and configuration rules in a product configurator. The generic design of the blast furnace has been recorded in 3D CAD and is driven from the configurator. Key-users have been trained to maintain and extend the configurator. The output of the configurator consists of a proposal design and a cost estimation. This creates a supply chain that is 100% configure-to-order.

Result: Go Smart!

• The product configurator, powered by Tacton, can generate accurate proposal designs;
• 100% configure-to-order (CTO);
• Design and cost estimation within one hour;
• Increased quality of proposal design in 3D/2D CAD;
• Reduction of project risks by predictability of the design;
• Simple access and management of product and knowledge structure.

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