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Press Release from Automated Precision Deutschland GmbH, Im Breitspiel 17, 69126 Heidelberg, Germany
Contact: Marc Keinert, Phone: +49 6221 729 805-0, marc.keinert@apisensor.com
Steel Production (Flat Iron):
Rollers alignment with the Laser Tracker
Bauteilträger für den Airbus - Aussen- und Innenaufnahme. Rot: Das Simulationsgewicht für den späteren Flugzeugrumpf. Der Laser Tracker (jeweils Bildmitte) dient zum Messen, Justieren und Einstellen des Trägers.
Arcelor Mittal is an international steel company, created in 2007 from the Mittal Steel Company
and Arcelor. The company has about 60 production facilities in more than two dozen countries
employing approximately 320,000 workers. Arcelor Mittal is, in all respects, by far the largest
steel producer in the world and is one of the world's leading international corporations. At the
production site in Fos-sur-Mer (France) the API
laser trackers are used for alignment of rollers in
the flat iron production - but that’s not the only area where the company uses them.
The API Laser Tracker which easily fits in an average car trunk (including all accessories such as a Tripod
for quick changes of location), provides the solution for many measurement tasks which previously
could not be performed without accepting much higher cost or/and much lower accuracy.
Guy Priaud, Reliability & Predictive Maintenance Manager at Arcelor Mittal in Fos-sur-Mer near Marseille:
"We have been using our API Laser Tracker since mid-2005. It was purchased primarily to inspect
the orientation of the rolls before reassembly in our hot rolling mill. In the past, the solution for this task
required time-consuming measurement efforts.”
Operating 24 hours a day, the cylinders of the hot rolling mill need to be replaced and refurbished regularly.
Technician in measurement technology Descaves during a check of a roller for the hot rolling mill of Arcelor Mittal in Fos-sur-Mer/
France.
