Melters log every heat through a screen built to match the paper register they already use — grade, tap temperature, tap weight, alloy and power consumption, and delays — timestamped and tied to a single heat number that carries into AOD and CCM automatically.
A furnace shift log in an induction furnace or EAF plant exists to answer one question at month-end: what happened on every heat, and why. On paper, that means a melter writing down each of the following, by hand, heat after heat, shift after shift.
None of this is complicated to record once. The problem shows up at consolidation: three shifts' worth of handwriting, in three different styles, re-typed into a spreadsheet by someone who wasn't on the floor when it happened. Smudged tap temperatures, missing delay reasons, and formulas that quietly break when a column shifts are the norm, not the exception.
The furnace module mirrors the existing paper log sheet field for field, so melters log heats the same way they always have — just on a screen instead of a register. Every entry is timestamped automatically, validated against expected ranges, and linked to the heat number that AOD and CCM will use for the same heat. An admin can verify entries before they roll into reports, and the whole shift's data is visible on the live dashboard as it's entered — not reconstructed at month-end.
30 days, free, alongside your existing paper process.