IPACT was born out of the steel industry, as the principals of the company all came out of the process control departments of local steel mills. Still today, about 40% of our staff have backgrounds in steel and aluminum. This means that IPACT really understands automating metals processes. If you are in the steel or aluminum industry, we speak your language.
Processes that IPACT has automated in the metals industry include:
- Steel
- Blast Furnaces
- Basic Oxygen Furnaces and Ladle Treatment Stations
- Electric Furnaces
- Casters
- Shape Mills
- Tube Mills
- Hot Strip Mills
- Cold Strip Mills
- Continuous Coating Lines
- Aluminum
- Hot Strip Mills
- Cold Strip Mills
A distinctive facet of the metals industries is that they still have a large installed base of OpenVMS software platforms. IPACT has tremendous expertise in OpenVMS and can handle anything from FORTRAN to assembly code to device drivers on that platform.
We also have expertise in both the set-up and dynamic models that are used in metals, and particularly in hot and cold rolling. This includes Automatic Gauge Control (AGC) and tension control.
In addition to applying our expertise to custom solutions, we have several pre-engineered solutions available to our customers including the blast furnace application, ladle tracking application, and billet tracking application.
If you work in the food industry and are concerned about regulatory compliance, check out IPACT's HACCP application. (
How much does it cost for your plant to be down or crippled for a day? A week? A month? Maybe more than the cost of your automation system. (