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Metals Production in the Streaming Age: How to Make Uncertainty a Competitive Advantage

24 Jun 2021, Technology, Industry 4.0, Production

Digitization has changed customer behavior. Instead of choosing a product from a limited set of options, customers search for the product on the Internet and place orders through a seamless acquisition process, thus creating a streamline of products delivered to their door. This behavior change does not just affect retailers, but industrial manufacturers as well. Is your company ready to play along?

Product Instead of Project as IT Strategy

27 Feb 2019, Production, Industry 4.0

The use of standard products often requires a restructuring and change of the processes in a company. In an interview, Andreas Groos, Vallourec Business Program Manager for the revamping of the information systems in the European mills, explains why the company prefers product-based solutions to project-based solutions and how Vallourec rolls out the template at its worldwide locations.

Production Management Meets Art in Istanbul

21 Nov 2018, Production, Industry 4.0

Just as the city on the Bosporus unites the two continents of Europe and Asia, it also brought two worlds together in this year’s PSImetals UserGroup, which seemingly could not be more different: art and production. Under the motto “The Art of Production,” numerous lectures and a factory tour at ASAŞ Alüminyum offered an impressive program. Ahead of the event, the third PSImetals digitalization brunch on cloud computing also took place.

Industry 4.0 in the Steel Industry: Old Wine in New Wineskins?

22 Aug 2018, Industry 4.0, Production

The term Industry 4.0 is not new. Hardly a political speech with economic relevance or a research proposal in the field of production can do without this buzzword today. However, this popularity has an after-taste: for a long time, especially in the steel industry, it was impossible to make any sense of this supposed buzzword and so Industry 4.0 was quickly banished to the marketing niche.