Steel production involves the transfer and transformation of material and energy at different levels, structures, and scales, and this process incurs substantial information in the material and energy dimensions. Given the black-box feature of iron and steel production processes, process visualization plays an important role and inevitably benefits parameter correction, technical support decision-making, personnel training, and other aspects of the steel metallurgy industry. The technological characteristics of the entire process in the steel industry were analyzed in this study, a visualization technology route based on virtual reality (VR) was built, and the important components of visual simulation system for steel industry and the important technical points needed to realize the system were proposed. On the foundation, a visual simulation model for the process scheduling of the iron and steel enterprise raw materials’ field, slab, and hot rolling processes was built, and a visualization simulation platform of the iron and steel metallurgy plant-wide process, including ironmaking, steelmaking, hot rolling, and cold rolling, was developed. Lastly, the effectiveness of platform was illustrated by practical application.

钢铁生产涉及不同层次、不同结构、不同规模的物质和能量的转移和转化，这一过程涉及物质和能量维度的大量信息。鉴于钢铁生产过程的黑匣子特性，过程可视化发挥着重要作用，必然有利于钢铁冶金行业的参数修正、技术支持决策、人才培养等方面。本研究分析了钢铁行业全过程的技术特点，构建了基于虚拟现实（VR）的可视化技术路线，分析了钢铁行业可视化仿真系统的重要组成部分以及需要实现的重要技术要点。该系统被提议。在基础上，建立了钢铁企业原料场、板坯、热轧过程调度可视化模型，构建了钢铁冶金全厂炼铁、炼钢、热轧等全厂过程可视化仿真平台。开发了轧制和冷轧。最后，通过实际应用说明了平台的有效性。