9fans archive / 1996 / 05 / 30 / prev next From: Nigel Roles ngr@sym... Subject: Inferno - latest press comment Date: Thu, 16 May 1996 03:47:48 -0400 >From the Financial Times, today, 16/5/96 "Inferno called to the bar" British Steel has developed a new computer-based system which allows a furnaceman to "see inside" furnaces used to reheat billets for rerolling into high-quality bar. Provisionally named Inferno, the system is a significant advance on previous monitoring and control methods, as it provides an on-line method of predicting reheating performance and regulates furnace conditions to achieve the desired results. The predictive information includes real-time furnace conditions and a model based on historical data. So that's what it's all about. Nigel Roles