Stabilise the thermal process without compromising production
Cement manufacturing relies on continuous thermo-chemical processes where grinding, preheating, calcination and clinker burning must remain perfectly balanced to ensure product quality, material yield and energy performance.
Even minor deviations can lead to fuel overconsumption, kiln instability, ring formation or clinker variability directly affecting downstream performance.
Indao transforms data from mills, preheater towers, rotary kilns, clinker coolers and utilities into reliable operational indicators and concrete recommendations.
Why cement processes are different
Energy-intensive thermal processes where operational stability and energy efficiency are closely interconnected.
Highly inertial thermal process
Permanent raw material variability
High energy intensity
The challenges you face
- Kiln stability: maintain consistent burning despite variations in raw material or fuel
- Clinker quality: control LSF, mineral phases and homogeneity to ensure grinding performance
- Energy performance: reduce kcal per tonne of clinker and optimise heat recovery
- Equipment availability: anticipate ring formation, cyclone blockages and cooler drift
- Environmental performance: control NOx, CO emissions and fuel consumption
The limits of your current tools
- Operations often rely on operator observations and historical trends
- Fixed-threshold alarms are poorly suited to the thermal inertia of the process
- Difficulty correlating raw meal variability with actual kiln behaviour
- Laboratory clinker analyses are often available only after significant delay
- Limited tools to anticipate gradual drifts affecting energy yield
What Indao delivers in practice
We design advanced analytics solutions that genuinely improve cement process performance, with AI as a support : explainable, controlled and field-oriented.
What you gain
Operational results, not just more dashboards
More stable kiln operation
Early detection of deviations
→ reduced thermal excursions
More consistent clinker quality
Better control of burning parameters, improving cement grinding performance
Reduced energy consumption
Optimised combustion and heat recovery
→ lower kcal per tonne
Increased equipment availability
Anticipation of blockages and ring formation
More robust operational decisions
Clear understanding of interactions between raw meal, combustion and energy
Controlled integration
Progressive, secure deployment aligned with existing practices
See clearly. Act decisively. Optimise sustainably.
Decisions that have already proven their impact
- Process Performance Optimization
2Valorise
Optimising the steam network to maximise cogeneration plant performance
- Process Performance Optimization
CRM Group
Identifying key parameters in hot rolling to better control process performance
- Data-driven Decision-Making
EKO-MYŚL
Centralising waste and energy data to improve operational control
Want to make decisions differently?
Let’s explore how your data can become a concrete operational lever.
Whatever your activity in the metals & minerals sector
Concrete levers at the core of processes
Steel
Improve the stability of metallurgical processes by controlling process deviations and optimising the energy efficiency of critical units
Mining
Control treatment and beneficiation facilities more precisely to maximise operational availability and overall energy performance
Non-ferrous metals
Correlate process parameters, energy consumption and material quality to reduce metallurgical variability and yield losses
Glass
Stabilise furnace thermal conditions to improve product homogeneity, energy efficiency and equipment lifetime
Construction & materials
Optimise energy-intensive processes by strengthening operational robustness and control of production conditions