DAMANI Group
Industrial Positioning & Identification Sensors
TRACKROLL-ID® enables full traceability of continuous casting rolls using RFID technology, providing lifecycle monitoring, maintenance optimization and operational performance improvement in steel plants.
Continuous casting is a key steelmaking process used to produce slabs, billets and blooms. A typical casting machine contains between 9 and 15 segments and more than 1000 rolls guiding the strand until full solidification.
TRACKROLL-ID® is an advanced RFID-based roll tracking system designed for continuous casting machines in steel plants. By integrating RFID tags directly into casting rolls, the system enables full identification, tracking and lifecycle management of each roll across production, maintenance and refurbishment operations.
This roll tracking system provides steel producers with real-time visibility on roll condition, usage history and maintenance cycles, enabling predictive maintenance strategies, improved reliability and optimized industrial performance.
During casting operations, hot steel slabs pass between rolls under extreme thermal and mechanical conditions.
Casting rolls operate under severe industrial constraints and must be regularly inspected, refurbished and replaced. Managing large roll fleets without proper traceability leads to loss of visibility, inefficient maintenance and increased operational costs.
In many steel plants, roll traceability is still based on manual documentation or paper records, making lifecycle tracking unreliable and difficult to exploit for performance optimization.
TRACKROLL-ID® is a complete roll traceability system designed to identify casting rolls and manage their lifecycle across maintenance operations, storage yards and production lines.
TRACKROLL-ID® tags are installed in dedicated housings machined into the roll structure.
A roll traceability system is essential for managing large fleets of continuous casting rolls. By combining identification, tracking and lifecycle analysis, steel plants can improve maintenance strategies, extend roll lifespan and reduce operational costs.
DAMANI Group supports steel producers and machine builders implementing roll traceability solutions.
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