METALS RECYCLING
Three levers move every recycling yard. Most operators only see two of them.
How you buy. How you process. How you sell. Spartan turns the second one — process — into a live, two-way digital twin so you ship spec faster, with less rework, and lower energy per ton.
Feeding the shredder while the market moves under your feet.
Inbound at the scale. Prep. Shred or shear or bale. Downstream sort for non-ferrous. Ship mill-ready. On paper, it is elegant. In practice, copper percent drifts, moisture skews recovery, the shredder bucks, and last week’s spreadsheet stops being useful by Monday afternoon.
LEVER 1
How material flows into the yard.
Inbound mix, scale accuracy, and inbound chemistry shape every margin downstream. Spartan visualizes the inbound flow against your scale and ticket data so you see what is actually arriving, by grade and supplier.
LEVER 2
What the shredder, shears, and downstream sort actually do.
TPH. kWh per ton. Moisture. Copper percent. Recovery. Downtime codes. We turn each of these into live signals on a digital twin, so the next decision is data-driven, not gut-feel.
LEVER 3
How mill-ready material leaves your yard.
Spec out the door. Loadout appointments. Shift plans across crews and dispatch. The twin keeps everyone working from the same yard map by grade and location.
What Spartan adds to the yard
♻️ A Digital Twin is not a Twin without two-way data. Geometry alone is a 3D model. A twin reads and writes: scales, sensors, PLCs, work orders, and schedules.
♻️ Make the signals live. TPH, kWh per ton, moisture, copper percent, recovery, downtime codes. If it is last week’s spreadsheet, you are guessing. A live yard map by grade and location beats gut feel.
♻️ Run TOC plus Short-Interval Control. Use the twin to put the bottleneck where you want it. Often the shredder. Sometimes downstream sorting. Subordinate, schedule, elevate. Adjust the plan every interval, not every quarter.
Visual twin in 72 hours. Digital twin when you are ready.
Same playbook as steel, tuned for the recycling yard. mm-level accuracy. Two-way connected data. Ship spec faster.
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