Abstract
The paper provides data on the construction of mathematical models using parametric identification of objects, as well as the development of algorithms that allow calculating optimal charge plans in production, and also addresses issues related to modeling and control of electric melting. As a result of the work, the issues of partial automation through channels have been solved: regulation of electric power, charge loading control, melt level measurement, research on mechanization and automation of smelting products, as well as theoretical, experimental and pilot industrial studies on automation of electric furnaces of non-ferrous metallurgy. This control system of the electrothermal furnace operates in open mode, solves individual functional tasks of process control and management and provides solutions to the problems of optimal control of the technological process of electric melting. The paper also discusses issues related to the automatic control of the electric power of electrothermal furnaces. The furnace is considered as an object of channel control: electrode deepening-electrode currents.