An overhead ladle crane lifting a glowing ladle of molten steel in the bay — the most dangerous lift in the plant.

LVS · Physics-grounded agentic AI for steel

LVS measures whether the ladle is safely on the hook — every lift.

The most dangerous lift in the plant is judged by eye — a multi-tonne ladle of molten steel, seated on the crane hook by a glance. No measurement, no record.

Ladle Visualization System changes that. It measures the hook–trunnion engagement in real time and gives the operator the engagement face the cab was never given.

01 — Pick-up

The engagement you can't see.

The hook takes the ladle by the trunnions, and from the cab the engagement face is hidden — you are seating multi-ton molten steel on a face you cannot see. It is not a matter of skill; the geometry hides it. LVS makes that geometry legible, low-latency, every lift — the face the cab was never given.

A ladle crane hook descending onto ladle 1, its molten bath open — the engagement.

The hook coming onto ladle 1 — the engagement.

02 — Set-down

The placement you can't blink on.

Landing on the turret is precise and unforgiving — the margin is small, and a half-second's distraction is catastrophic. You're skilled; no one holds perfect attention every lift across a shift. The same continuity that watches the bay watches the turret set-down, and never looks away — the precision watch, held with you. The call stays yours.

A ladle bay: ladle 15 charged and waiting on its transfer car, ladle 8 at its stand beyond — each ladle numbered, in its place.

03 — For operations leadership

The bay, known.

Once the bay is legible, its state is yours: where every ladle is, its life by heat count, its superheat, its place on the turret — read continuously, not sampled. The physics of the bay, made visible.

Which of these you act on —
reline timed, a cold heat caught before cast, the turret sequenced right —
the rest, you already know.

The bay — every ladle, its place, its life by heat count.

04 — Over time

It becomes the expert on your ladle crane.

A ladle crane carrying a suspended ladle of molten steel through the bay hall.

The ladle crane, carrying a heat across the bay.

LVS starts as the lift made legible — the engagement, the margin, the bay, today. Heat after heat, on your bay's own practice and your ladles' own history, the reads sharpen. What begins as making the lift legible grows, over time, into working it with you: an expert operator's assistant that earns the floor.

The call stays yours.
The assistant just keeps getting better at your bay.

05 — On the floor

Honest about where it is.

Coverage

Runway-side + cabinRunway-side and crane-cabin vantage — the hidden engagement face and the bay, both in view.

Reach

Stand-by-standEvery stand in the ladle bay covered — engagement, lining, lift-and-landing, slag and skull.

Fit

Scoped to the bayBay geometry, stand count, and crane capacity scoped to the install — the figures live in your offer.

Grounding

Physics & geometryReasoning tied to the lift's real geometry and the bath's physics — the physical reality of the lift.

In design — co-developed on the shop floor

This is where LVS sits today, honestly: built around your bay's real geometry, in design with the operations and automation teams who run it — not yet installed.

A working ladle bay: multiple numbered ladles at different stages — one being lifted, one fuming, one empty.

A working ladle bay — heats at every stage.

Strategic engagement

The most dangerous lift in the plant. Let's make it legible.

For pilot exploration, co-creation on the shop floor, or a deployment discussion — we build inside real steelmaking shops, against live constraints.

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