Crane WiFi for Steel Production

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Customer challenges

  • Increasing production by up to 30%

  • Improving worker safety

  • Reducing labor and maintenance costs

  • Increasing availability of overhead cranes

  • Increasing slab stack transfer rate

  • Improving logistics processes

The solution

Acksys’ wireless offer complements the Productivity and Safety EcoStruxure Plant solution by enabling reliable and real-time communication between ground and on-board devices in a mobile environment.

Customer benefits

  • Easily scalable and versatile

  • WiFi solution suitable for short and long-range communications; operates independent of the environment and number/positions of overhead cranes or halls.

  • Open solution compatible with all industrial protocols based on Ethernet (SafeEthernet, EtherNet/IP, Modbus TCP)