Mining, Metal & Construction Industries
In order to produce more and improve the quality of products, the steel industry is on the path of using the technologies resulting from the fourth revolution. It is clear that this massive wave will affect all processes and the steel value chain. Undoubtedly, this stunning growth of technology will create many opportunities for the steel industry by establishing smart factories, digitizing this industry, increasing productivity, using 3D printing technology in the manufacturing and maintenance industry by producing parts with high strength and weight. Less along with advanced analysis and even, the sales and marketing process, brought about a fundamental transformation in the industry and society. The use of an integrated process management system, warehousing and intelligent customer communication system, and beyond these, the use of robotic technology in production, is facing the steel industry. The new revolution will transform the steel industry and its related industries by expanding artificial intelligence technology and mainstreaming it in the industry and using digital technologies, increasing the widespread use of the Internet of Things, intelligent robots with the ability to learn and the development of remote control by managers. . These achievements can be used to improve performance and production efficiency in blast furnaces and electric arc furnaces along with reducing costs.
With the challenges of increasing production efficiency, developing a circular economy and moving towards sustainable production, in addition to competition between steel factories, competition between factories producing all industrial materials has also been formed, encouraging steelmakers to use the capabilities provided by the fourth industrial revolution as much as possible. has done. The country’s steel industry’s neglect of this huge development while it is still facing certain problems can make the country’s steel industry face other problems in the coming years. The steel industry and most of the factories remain in the middle of the second and third industrial revolutions, while our competitors are moving quickly towards solving the problems and providing the necessary infrastructure to definitively and completely enter the era of the fourth industrial revolution. In the meantime, the digital transformation plan of Foulad Mobarakeh, as the country’s largest industrial holding, in order to transition to a smart factory, can pave the way for other domestic factories. Currently, only Mobarake steel is using the third generation of technology, and other industrial units are still stuck in the transition from the second to the third generation. Now, a few of the world’s largest companies are members of the Lighthouse Club; The club of companies with fourth generation technology and the joining of steel companies to this club in the coming years can make a big industrial leap in the country. Currently, there is an urgent need for investment, to go beyond the traditional methods of management and science production methods, and especially the financing of infrastructure projects and extensive interaction with the scientific and technological centers of the world.
