Entering the "intelligent warehouse" of cold rolling in rare earth steel sheet plant, the yellow safety fence separated the warehouse area from the unmanned crane in operation, showing "automatic mode" in particular. From grabbing steel coil to putting steel coil into storage, the whole set of action is completed in one go. This is the first unmanned "intelligent warehouse" in Northwest China, and also the breakthrough of Baotou Steel intelligent manufacturing application from single process to regional collaboration. Here, the "black light factory" is no longer a distant concept, intelligent lighting for industrial manufacturing.

The intelligent manufacturing projects, such as the application of 5g communication technology in the mine car, industrial robots embedded in each process and unattended pump station, have been rooted in Baotou Steel along with the innovative development of the manufacturing industry. At the same time, what Baotou Steel needs to explore is to lead intelligent manufacturing to a higher goal of systematization, centralized control and one key. In the cold rolling "intelligent warehouse" of rare earth steel sheet plant, Shi Aiwen, the chief engineer in charge of the design and transformation of the whole set of "intelligent warehouse", showed the QR code on the steel coil to the reporter. It seems that the QR code is no different from the QR code commonly used in our daily use of wechat "scan and scan". The QR code is the "ID card" of the steel coil. The two-dimensional code on the steel coil is also the key information of the Internet of things in series. Using RFID technology can easily identify and track the information of the steel coil. At the same time, the relevant data information will also be uploaded to the reservoir management system automatically. The staff can query all work data with one key, and understand the real-time information of the reservoir area vividly through the reservoir area management interface. The steel coil scanned with two-dimensional code will wait on the pallet transportation chain for a while. Soon, it will be hoisted into the warehouse by an unmanned crane. The steel coil information in the warehouse will be recorded accurately on the warehouse management interface. Not only will there be no "muddy water" in the whole process of transportation, but also the data information will be truly transparent, dynamic and real-time.

The operation of traditional warehousing system can not be separated from the cooperation of multiple field operators. However, with the change of time, the accumulation of inventory information makes the number and difficulty of manual "inventory" increasing, and data leakage is inevitable. After the "intelligent warehouse" project goes online, it can not only effectively solve the problem of data accuracy, but also realize the intelligent distribution of the intermediate warehouse according to the production plan, and optimize the inventory while improving the efficiency of equipment operation in the reservoir area.