"Must-Have" Rules for Blast Furnace Operation: e-Learning Tools

Based on operating know-how and case studies of trouble and countermeasures developed by JFE Steel over many years, JFE offers important rules for blast furnace operation as e-learning tools, contributing to raising the level of knowledge of employees and visualization of blast furnace operation.

Solution Point

Inadequate transmission of skills to operators leads to operational trouble, reduced operational efficiency, and lower product quality.
Periodic systematic training for operators and managers using these tools raises the level of knowledge.
And also supports appropriate allocation of personnel by promoting permeation of knowledge through verification tests, enabling visualization of the knowledge levels of the personnel concerned.

Features 01

Expected Problems

・ Serious trouble occurred because skills were not transmitted between employees.

・Appropriate allocation of personnel is a concern, because the knowledge level of individual employees is not visualized.

Features 02

Technology highlight

Training materials that systematically organize control items are created based on the operating know-how and case studies of trouble and their countermeasures developed by JFE Steel over many years, and are supplied as e-learning tools.

The content of training is customized according to the requests of the Client,

and is also updated periodically based on the contractual conditions.

Features 03

Proposed Solutions (Examples)

・ JFE Steel supplies e-learning tools that can be used in the Client's system currently used.

・In JFE Steel's ironmaking departments, use of these e-learning tools began as a measure to prevent the recurrence of serious trouble. These tools are now contributing to prevention of serious trouble due to inadequate transmission of skills by raising the level of knowledge and optimization of the allocation of personnel.

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