WideQuick at SSAB Luleå - from operator panel to superior system

Nordkonsult El & Automation i Luleå AB has installed WideQuick SCADA Premium at SSAB in Luleå to link 15 WideQuick HMI Panels, all of which handle different properties in the facility. This means that all applications can be accessed in a single view, from any location.

Nordkonsult, which is a Kentima partner, offers a range of different services within the industrial and technology sector.
Between 2017 and 2020, Nordkonsult supp-lied building automation systems to 15 sites at SSAB in Luleå. This has been a combination of both the renovation of old facilities and the building of new ones. The projects included design, project management, programming, and electrical installation. For all facilities, Nordkonsult supplied WideQuick HMI Panel H516 from Kentima and SAIA PCD3 PLC systems.

From the outset, discussions were held with SSAB about HMI products that would satisfy SSAB’s requirements in respect of user friendliness. During these discussions, it also emerged that there was a desire for a scalable solution that could be easily supplemented with a superordinate SCADA system and expanded to cover additional facilities.
SSAB is a highly specialised steel company with a global presence. In Luleå, SSAB produces ore-based steel from iron ore pellets, primarily sourced from the Ore Fields of northern Sweden. Carbon from Australia and the USA arrives at the port in Luleå, from where it is taken to our boiler house and heated in a battery of furnaces and converted into gas and coke. The gas is turned into energy whilst the coke goes to the blast furnace where it reduces acid from the iron ore, producing raw molten iron. The blast furnace is continually fed with iron ore pellets, coke, lime, and additives.


”From the outset, we realised that WideQuick gave us the opportunity to satisfy both our and SSAB’s desire for sensible HMI solutions,” says Ove Segerlund, Group Manager, Nordkonsult El & Automation in Luleå AB.

SSAB has taken the plunge and purchased installations of WideQuick SCADA Premium as a superior system for building automation at its sites in Luleå. This means that it is possible to connect all WideQuick HMI panels from which all existing applications can be accessed in a single view. In both the HMI panels and SCADA, Kentima’s building automation concept WideQuick BMS has been used as the basis.


Kentima develops and offers the property industry attractive products that enable system integrators to effectively create future-proof surveillance systems for all types of buildings. WideQuick HMI/SCADA Panel and WideQuick HMI/SCADA Box is part of a complete system for creating different types of surveillance with associated user interface and communication with external units. WideQuick is software for creating HMI, SCADA, or PSIM applications, has been developed by Kentima, and forms the basis for all operator units.

All operator units can communicate with a large number of I/Os and PLCs from different manufacturers and can easily be integrated with various subordinate and superior systems.


”After having carefully evaluated WideQuick HMI/SCADA products, we opted to go the whole hog and use both local HMI panels and SCADA systems from Kentima in our facilities,” says Agneta Ågren, Building Automation Operations Manager, SSAB Luleå. 

WideQuick has built-in flexibility, allowing system integrators to choose the system architecture that best fits the project in question. System integrators can build everything, from a small scale surveillance system with a local operator panel, to a huge system with SCADA functionality, through which it is possible to monitor properties from a central control room or remotely using a modern web interface from a computer, mobile phone, or tablet.



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