Energy Efficient Milling using Data Driven Models for Cement Manufacturing.

1. CEMTEC- FIWARE
Thomas Gross
Linz Center of Mechatronics

2. Linz Center of Mechatronics GmbH

3. Linz Center of Mechatronics GmbH

4. Linz Center of Mechatronics GmbH
• Mission: “Transfers research results into industrial application”
• 120 Employees
• about 300 Customer
• Location Linz
• 4 Business and Research Areas
Drives | Mechanics & Control |Sensors & Communication I Emerging Technologies

5. Company partner CEMTEC
• Specialist for cement, mining and
processing industry technologies
• Products: machinery and turnkey plants
• Headquarters: Enns, Austria
• Employees: 280
• Turnover: €75.9Mio (2019)

6. CEMTEC pilot plant – ball mill circuit

7. CEMTEC pilot plant – ball mill circuit
Influencing factors:
• Inconsistent raw material
• Equipment condition
• Environmental factors

8. Project plan
• Task 1: Status survey – Site & Machine (M1)
• Task 2: Setup of FIWARE Platform and Pilot Plant Integration (M2 - M3)
• Task 3: Pilot Plant Data Acquisition (M3 - M5)
• Task 4: Data Analysis and Process Modeling (M4 – M6)
Timeline Month
Task 1 2 3 4 5 6
T1
T2
T3
T4

9. Implementation details
• Cloud-centric implementation with all
services running in the cloud
• On-site requirements: OPC-UA server
• Components (FIWARE):
• OPC-UA client
• Orion context broker
• Quantum Leap → Crate DB
• Grafana for visualization

10. COVID-19 and mitigation plan

11. COVID-19 and mitigation plan

12. Validation in pilot plant

13. Process model – expert system
• Development of theoretical basis for expert system
• Two layers
• Physics based
• Data based – artificial neural network
• Use annotated process data to learn process characteristics for varying
fresh feed consistencies → identify fresh feed during production
• Realization once enough process data is recorded

14. KPIs, Business impact and next steps
• KPI1: Information exchange sensors, PLCs and FIWARE
• KPI2: Database integration
• KPI3: Visualization of process data
• KPI4: Process model
• KPI5: Dissemination
• KPI6: Strategic impact – LCM/CEMTEC

15. THANK
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