CUSTOMER CHALLENGE A steel mill with a two vessel BOF (basic oxygen furnace) had an extremely labor-intensive production process. This included loading alloy batch materials into hand trolleys that were manually weighed, and then the materials were hand dumped into the BOF vessel. The Basic Oxygen Furnace process brings the initial alloy batch materials to a desired concen- tration and removes impurities to fit product specifications. Due to the manual operation, the production of the alloy batch materials was limited in size, and output capacity was hampered. SOLUTION To increase speed and efficiency, our customer adapted an automated Larry Car containing an onboard weighing system and a hopper to capture alloy materials from eight overhead al- loy material storage bins. In this conf

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