AI in Steel & Metals
Steel and metals processing runs the highest temperatures in industry — furnaces, reheat lines, casters and rolling mills — under heavy mechanical loads. Reliability of mills, drives and furnaces is critical, and furnace and reheat efficiency directly drives both cost and carbon per tonne.
Iron and steel is one of the largest industrial CO2 emitters, with emissions driven mainly by high-temperature process heat and reduction chemistry. — Source: IEA — Steel
Where AI and efficiency pay off
- Heavy-asset predictive maintenance — Monitoring mill drives, gearboxes and fans where failures are costly and dangerous.
- Furnace and reheat optimisation — Reducing fuel use per tonne while holding temperature targets.
- Vision and surface inspection — Automated detection of surface defects on strip and plate.
- Digital twins — Connected models of furnace and mill lines for performance and scenario analysis.
Energy-intensive equipment in steel & metals
- Electric arc and reheat furnaces
- Continuous casters
- Hot and cold rolling mills
- Large drives, gearboxes and motors
- Ladles and transfer systems
Guides for steel & metals
Predictive maintenance: a practical guide
What predictive maintenance is, how it differs from preventive maintenance, which techniques fit which assets, and how to start without boiling the ocean.
Waste heat recovery in industry
Where industrial waste heat hides, the technologies that capture it, and how to judge whether recovery pays at your site.
Factory decarbonization: a practical roadmap
A sequenced, no-regrets roadmap for cutting industrial emissions — efficiency first, then electrification and fuel switching, then the hard residual.
Digital twins in industry
A clear-eyed look at industrial digital twins — what the term really means, the levels of fidelity, and where they deliver value versus hype.
Software for steel & metals
Siemens Senseye Predictive Maintenance
Scalable predictive maintenance that learns from existing condition data.
IBM Maximo Application Suite
Enterprise asset management with built-in monitoring and AI.
AVEVA Predictive Analytics
Early-warning analytics for critical process and power assets.
GE Vernova Proficy
MES, historian and digital-twin tooling for manufacturing.
Cognite Data Fusion
Industrial DataOps and digital-twin foundation.