The Digital Transformation of Steel Production

by Kurt Herzog, Günther Winter, Markus Ringhofer

Publisher - Primetals Technologies Austria, Primetals Technologies Germany, PSI Metals Austria GmbH

Category - Engineering & IT

Intelligent combination of process automation, information technology, and connectivity enables the digitalization of steel production that goes far beyond conventional automation of industrial production. Several initiatives like IIoT have been implemented all around the world. Smart sensor technology combined with advanced digital models as well as quality and production planning and control systems provide huge potentials along the entire production chain. The result is quality improvement and production cost reduction together with process flexibility. This paper is drafting a vision of the intelligent steel production of the future as well as showing a stepwise approach to reach this ambitious target inspired by the experience of more than 2,000 successful automation projects executed in the metals industry

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