OREANDA-NEWS. March 29, 2012. From ordering, receiving to sheet balancing, customers can quickly and easily obtain all the contract product information on Baosteel's self-integrated innovative heavy plate Internet of Things.Recently, with the successful application of this system, Baosteel heavy plate Internet of Things era officially begins and this is also the first case in domestic steel industry's heavy plate product field, reported the press-centre of Baosteel. 

Baosteel's choosing heavy plate products to explore the Internet of Things development model originates in the special nature of this product.?With "mass body and small batch", heavy plate products logistics level impacts and plagues orderly convergence of the supplying and demanding sides.?The most representative is the shipbuilding, often one board means one contract and according to the shipbuilding cycle, segment delivery is required. This brings a range of problems to logistics organization, warehouse stacking, lifting and customer receiving. Added with the asymmetry of information, it causes steel enterprises and shipping enterprises headache.

In 2009, Baosteel International Baoshan company and ship plate company, Bsteel, Baosight Software, and Baosteel Co.,Ltd. Manufacturing Department, Heavy Plate Department, Transportation Department and Heavy Plate Sales Department form a development team, establish a large customer e-commerce channel and takes the lead in system project development in ship plate field. During this time, they overcome many difficulties, such as no same industry experience and user code identification and analysis difficulty. After more than two years of technical integration and testing improvement, they ultimately succeed.

The system uses Internet, wireless mobile terminals and bar codes. The user is informed of cargo information in full supply chain: ordering, warehousing, logistics, receiving and billing, and checking is also convenient. This greatly improves the work efficiency and information access accuracy.?At the same time, the operation language and mode which the system chooses transmit information according to the specific mode of shipping enterprises, allowing the integrated cooperation between steel enterprise and shipping enterprise and it is user-friendly. In addition, through the operation of the system, Baosteel can keep abreast of the status of user contract products, make rapid response to unusual circumstances, effectively enhancing the validity and relevance of services. Due to timely information delivery, in warehousing and logistics chains, rational distribution and orderly delivery can be made according to the user's product demand priorities and error rate and contract overruns can be reduced.

It is reported that, after trial use of this system, the shipping enterprise which cooperates with Baosteel has transplanted Baosteel Internet of Things operation mode to its foreign supplier. From now on Baosteel will comprehensively promote and use the system in heavy plate's various product field and enhance informized service capabilities.