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Metals Processing

Solutions to Optimize Steel Production
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Metals Processing
Solutions to Optimize Steel Production

The steel industry has undergone monumental changes, and the future promises to be even more dynamic. It will require you to become more efficient to address global competition and changing technologies. Our dedicated industry team will apply specific application and process experience to create the right control solutions for you. They will help enable you to execute real-time control and maintain critical process parameters to respond to diverse customer demands. These solutions help produce high-quality products with consistent metallurgical properties. They can help boost yields and minimize energy costs to reduce your costs-per-ton.


Extract Value at Every Stage of Your Steel Process

Systems to Improve Productivity and Optimize Energy Consumption

You are faced with a wide range of challenges daily. Trade wars add complexity to the market, a retiring workforce is leaving management with a skills gap to deal with, and globally, the steel industry is operating at high rates of capacity utilization.

Does this sound all too familiar?

Luckily, there is a way to mitigate these challenges. Optimizing and maintaining critical operations in your steel plant demands expertise and modern, integrated technologies. We offer a wide range of solutions that safeguard your operations and meet economic and performance requirements. These solutions are scalable, flexible and easy to integrate, helping you increase productivity, lower costs, reduce energy consumption and improve safety.

The Connected Steel Plant
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The Connected Steel Plant

Solutions to meet steel needs.

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Digital Transformation: From Strategies to Solutions

While investments in smart manufacturing are growing, many projects fail to see successful implementation. The strength of technology that companies are focusing on today – digital twin, IoT platform, extended reality, artificial intelligence, predictive analytics and more — doesn’t lie in the technologies individually. The value stems from how companies integrate technology to transform the business and how you work.

Digital Transformation Strategies for the Steel Industry
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Digital Transformation Strategies for the Steel Industry

Strategies for steel companies to meet industry challenges through digitization.

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Smart Devices for Smart Steel Production
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Smart Devices for Smart Steel Production

Smart manufacturing is the gateway to digital transformation. Read how a metal manufacturer looked to Rockwell Automation to help them connect disparate company divisions.

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Modernize Metals Product with MES

Manufacturing Execution Systems Help Solve Metals Industry Challenges

The challenges of obsolete equipment and a retiring workforce present liabilities in today’s highly competitive market, these challenges include:

  • Retiring workers and a lack of diagnostics
  • No production intelligence
  • No flexibility to respond to the change in market conditions
  • Manual recipe and order management  
  • Unconnected, aging systems cannot provide product traceability or genealogy
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MES for Metals Application
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MES for Metals Application

Alleviate obsolescence, address workforce challenges, and align metals operations with customer needs.

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Benefits of MES Systems in Metals Operations

Modern MES puts real-time information at the fingertips of anyone in the plant. Staff can use these insights to become more productive and get more from their equipment and materials. Benefits include:

  • Reduced downtime
  • Reduced scrap
  • Integrated production with scheduling and capacity planning
  • Incorporated traceability and genealogy
  • Reduced production variability and rework

Crane Automation Solutions
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Crane Automation Solutions

Our crane Automation Solutions can enhance safety and productivity in your metals facility. They are scalable, tested, and validated. Talk with our industry specialists.

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Maximize Mill Operations

Crane Automation and Automated Storage Solutions

Looking for new ways to keep your people safe and maximize machine performance in your metals production facility? We understand. Your mill runs 24/7. It is a complicated process to assess current systems, needs, and issues. It helps to have a partner that understands your industry, your strengths, your systems, and operational goals. Our specialists have the industry-based application knowledge to have a meaningful conversation. Take a small step, a big step, and anything in between. We can help.

There are plenty of benefits to be had when you recognize that improvements need be made and you are going to do something about it. You can increase efficiency, deliver better performance, enhance inventory management, and better safety processes.


AIC Upgrades Improve Steel Production

Automazioni Industriali Capitanio s.r.l. (AIC) is a global system integrator that designs, manufactures, and markets automation systems, primarily for the metals industry. AIC and Rockwell Automation partnered on a project to help Chicago Heights Steel upgrade their diagnostic and troubleshooting capabilities to reduce downtime and increase production.

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AIC and Rockwell Automation Partner to Deliver Improved Diagnostics for Chicago Heights Steel

Delivering improved diagnostic and troubleshooting capabilities for Chicago Heights Steel to reduce downtime and improve safety for their workforce.


Products and Capabilities

Broad Solutions Portfolio Helps You Achieve Operational Excellence Goals

Our portfolio of products and services provide metals companies with solutions covering automation, motor control, safety, and visualization. Through the use of the Internet of Things (IoT) technologies, we offer full access to plant sensors and equipment to go from data to information to action.

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  • Consulting and Integration Services
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