One heat number, from tap to billet — no re-typing required.

What "heat-wise traceability" actually means

Every heat melted in a furnace gets a heat number. In a paper-based plant, that number appears at the top of the furnace log page — and then, separately, at the top of the AOD register page, and again on the CCM sheet, and again in whatever spreadsheet costing gets built from. Nothing forces those four records to agree, and nothing makes them easy to find together later.

Heat-wise traceability means the opposite: one heat number is the key that every reading from every stage attaches to automatically, so the full history of that heat — grade, tap temperature and weight, AOD chemistry, CCM cast status, and final cost — can be retrieved as a single report at any time.

Why it matters

• Quality claims. If a customer raises a chemistry or quality issue on a batch of billets, you can trace it back to the exact heat, its AOD chemistry, and its furnace conditions in minutes.
• Audits and certification. Heat-wise records give auditors a clean, complete trail without reconstructing it from separate registers.
• Cost accuracy. Scrap, alloy and flux costs roll up against the actual heat they were used on, not an averaged monthly estimate.
• Faster root-cause analysis. A recurring yield or quality problem can be traced across heats sharing a grade, shift, or furnace — something that's near-impossible to do by hand across paper logs.

How SmeltSync connects Furnace → AOD → CCM

Each module — Furnace, AOD, and CCM — writes to the same heat number as soon as an operator opens that heat's entry. There's no manual step to "link" the records afterward, and no separate spreadsheet consolidating them at month-end. The heat's full record — from tap to billet to cost — exists as one report the moment casting is marked complete.