Process Control and Automation
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Advanced integrated automation and process control systems are essential to staying competitive in today’s manufacturing environment. Core Furnace Systems has one of the largest staffs in North America dedicated to the development of customized process control and automation systems for a wide variety of steelmaking, steel reheating and heat treating processes.
CORE has experience with process control equipment and software from all leading manufacturers and publishers. Systems are designed based on the customer’s specifications, with refinements resulting from our process analysis. Core Furnace Systems provides intuitive and effective interfaces, allowing for easy monitoring and control of scheduling/pacing, tracking, reporting and other vital functions. Our online and offline 2D and 3D thermal models provide superior accuracy, allowing for optimum furnace efficiency and production. Information generated by our systems can be communicated to other plant computers.
Services include:
- Human-Machine Interface (HMI) Systems
- Off-line modeling, analysis and design
- On-line modeling and control
- Material tracking and inventory management
- Data collection, reporting and analysis
- New instrumentation and PLC’s
- Material handling systems
- Digital electrode regulation
- Plantwide information systems
- Process optimization supervisory control systems
Contact Geoffery Hurd at ghurd@corefurnace.com for information about our process control and automation


