Future-proof your metals plant: enhancing production resilience and intelligence with PSImetals
How do you ensure resilience when any downtime in your central Manufacturing Execution System (MES) can halt all operations, creating a single point of failure? We are redefining the modern MES landscape with our Local Area Production Systems (LAPS). These autonomous systems run production areas independently, adding a powerful layer of flexibility to ensure the MES downtime has limited impact on your production.
Once your plant is resilient, next step is to make it brilliant. Production data is the key to unlocking the second pillar of modern manufacturing: instant AI-driven insights.
This insight comes to life by bridging the divide between raw data and actionable intelligence with a powerful AI chatbot embedded directly into PSImetals. While the PSImetals Factory Model acts as a central hub for all your operational data, the Model Context Protocol (MCP) connects it to the world of Generative AI. The result is an intelligent assistant that does not just retrieve data but correlates, reasons and gives you a natural-language response, turning days of guesswork into minutes of insight.
In our webinar, our presenters will show you how PSImetals smartly enables you to apply these features into your processes and discuss the numerous benefits that steel and aluminum plants can expect following implementation.
Who should attend?
- Production & Operations Managers
- MES & IT Architects
- Plant Managers & Business Unit Leaders
- Automation Engineers
- Maintenance & Technical Leads
- AI and Machine Learning Engineers
- Anyone responsible for mitigating modernization risks to ensure a resilient "single source of truth" in a production environment
What will you gain?
- Discover how you can reduce MES downtime impact: Learn how to transform a plant-wide stoppage into a limited, manageable event using the autonomous power of LAPS.
- Learn how to react to unplanned events and improve overall process optimization.
- Get answers in minutes, not days: Find out how an embedded AI chatbot can answer complex questions by instantly correlating data from across your enterprise.
- Learn how to simplify your use of AI by standardizing communication, eliminating the need for applications to provide special interfaces for different large language models.
- Be able to learn how to analyze complex technical relationships in a structured manner, derive conclusions transparently, and handle multi-level problems using Model Context Protocol.
- Bridge the gap to the cloud: Discover how LAPS provides a safe and reliable buffer to connect your time-critical automation system to a cloud-based MES.
Host
Scott Wilson
Sales Director, PSI Metals North America
Scott Wilson received an Industrial Engineering Degree from the University of Iowa as well as an MBA from Indiana University. He began his career at LTV Steel Company, where he spent a decade serving in roles such as Project Engineer, Information Systems Coordinator, and Supply Chain Manager. For the past 20 years, Scott has been a Sales Manager at PSI Metals North America where he partners with customers in their efforts to optimize industrial processes and improve overall supply chain performance.