Metal processing ERP · Heat and material tracking
Capture the heat number at melt or receipt and carry it through casting, rolling, cutting and dispatch. Chemistry is checked against the grade, the mill test certificate goes out with the truck, and any piece can be traced in seconds.
Heat H24-1187 is cast into six billets, rolled and cut, and shipped on three orders. Hover a billet to follow it through. Example data.
The bars show each element's allowed range in blue and the heat's actual value as a marker. Change the grade to recheck. Spec values are simplified examples; use your standard's current edition.
Ladle analysis, % by weight. Mechanical tests (yield, tensile, elongation) appear on the full MTC.
When a bar is cut for orders, each piece and the leftover remnant keep the heat number. Remnants are offered first for the next job that fits.
Enter input tonnes and typical losses. See good output, tonnes lost and what that loss is worth. Rough estimate only.
Nine connected features. Each links to the related part of the ERP.
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Shop floor and lab equipment joined up with finance through our API integration work.
With a pilot line from heat to dispatch before every line switches over.
Heat tracking links to MTCs, quality, scrap and costing.
Answers for plant heads, QA and dispatch teams.
A heat number identifies one melt of steel or metal from a furnace. Everything cast and rolled from that melt shares the same chemistry, so the heat number links any finished piece back to its chemical and mechanical test results.
It records the heat number at melt or receipt and carries it through casting, rolling, cutting and dispatch, so every bar, plate, coil or piece can be traced to its heat, and every heat to the customers who received it.
An MTC, often to EN 10204 type 3.1, states the heat number, grade, chemistry and mechanical properties of the material supplied. The ERP generates or attaches the MTC and sends it with the dispatch.
Each grade has minimum and maximum values for elements such as carbon, manganese, sulphur and phosphorus. Lab or spectrometer results are compared automatically, and out-of-spec heats go on hold.
Yes. When a bar or plate is cut, the leftover is saved as a remnant with its heat number and size, and suggested first for the next suitable job.
Yield is good output weight divided by input weight. The ERP records losses such as scale, crop ends and rejections by heat and route, so you can see where metal is lost.
Yes. Heat numbers and MTCs from mills are captured at receipt, and carried through slitting, cutting and dispatch to your customers.
Customer and project specs such as IS 2062, EN 10025, ASTM grades, EN 10204 certificates and ISO 9001 traceability. Your quality team still owns the specs and approvals.
About 6 weeks, including a pilot line from heat to dispatch.
Tell us what you melt, roll or process, your grades and how you track heats and MTCs today. We reply within 4 business hours and can demo with your own heat data.