KMI modernizes long-running CEMAT control system at South Korean cement plant – 35 years after our first involvement
KMI has been selected to perform a comprehensive modernization of the CEMAT V6 control systems at a major cement plant in South Korea.
This project carries a special significance for us: KMI was already involved in the very first installation back in 1989.
Now, more than three decades later, the system has returned to us for migration to today’s latest technology — a strong sign of long-term customer trust and consistent engineering excellence.
Originally commissioned in the late 1980s on CEMAT V1.7, the system has undergone several partial upgrades. KMI will now execute a full migration from CEMAT V6 to the current SIMATIC PCS 7 CEMAT/Minerals Version 10, ensuring a clean and future-ready control environment.
In the initial project phase, KMI is modernizing the mining and raw materials extraction area, including:
- optimization and streamlining of long-standing control functions
- integration of new features, diagnostics, and improvements from the modern Minerals package
- consolidation and clean-up of numerous accumulated “hot fixes” from years of plant operation
This creates a stable foundation for all subsequent modernization steps across the entire plant.
With KMI’s extensive expertise in legacy system migrations, combined with our proven testing and acceptance procedures, we ensure a safe and controlled commissioning with minimal downtime and maximum long-term maintainability.
This project demonstrates once again that KMI is not only capable of handling complex automation migrations —
but is also a trusted partner across generations of CEMAT technology, from the 1980s to today’s PCS 7 Minerals platform.