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Use case 38: AI for Intelligent Steel Manufacturing in Hunan
Province, China 38-Huawei&XISC
Country: China
Organization: Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd, Hunan Valin Xiangtan Iron and Steel Co. Ltd
Contact person: Yizhou Cai, caiyizhou@ huawei .com
38�1� Use case summary table
Domain Steel manufacturing industry
The Problem • Iron and steel are integral to the manufacturing industry and play an
to be important role in the national economy of China and worldwide.
addressed • Conventional smelters are labor-intensive, with workers stuck in a high-tem-
perature environment filled with dust and noise. The environment can be
unsafe, and harms their health.
• Traditional plants have suffered from low efficiency and high employee
turnover, and have faced difficulties hiring new people.
• For scenarios in which defects are difficult to detect and manual inspec-
tion is required, the best approach is a long-term process of photographs
plus computing to find the pattern and perform an informed analysis.
Traditionally, photography and detection functions are incorporated in
manufacturing equipment, but that is costly and relies on dated detec-
tion algorithms backed by insufficient computing power. It’s also hard to
upgrade detection algorithms.
• To address these challenges, Xiangtan Iron and Steel collaborated with
China Mobile Hunan and Huawei to develop the smart steel smelter, the
first 5G+AI smart plant.
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