Industrial AI for steel — real Lean in the EAF melt shop
iLEAN digitizes the melt shop without touching the corporate systems that already work: the heat is born digital, the electric arc furnace talks without touching its SCADA, the lab analysis reaches the ERP the moment it is written and the knowledge of the shift lead stops dying at the end of the shift. Chemistry and mechanical properties held heat after heat, with the traceability alive that automotive and construction customers demand.
Steel sheet distribution
Stockholder: paperless counter order, the guillotine shear that starts talking, the mill certificate travelling with every piece, vision on the cut and zero heat-number errors on the delivery note.
See the cases → 12 casesFlat steel service centers
Paperless cutting order, the slitter that starts talking, coil validated on a tablet before cutting, vision on the prepainted surface, validated knife setup and zero off-spec material at shipment.
See the cases → 12 casesLong steel — EAF melt shop, rolling and drawing
Paperless heat startup, EAF panel read by camera with no SCADA retrofit, real-time heijunka, scrap receiving and coil marking into the ERP, vision poka-yoke in wire drawing, SMED AI on the critical changeover, the IATF evidence pack and the 4-ring flagship for zero per-heat deviation.
View cases →All 39 cases in steel
The complete listing, unpaginated. Each link goes to the specific case: the problem as it shows up on the plant floor, how the IRIS schema solves it and what was measured.
- A non-conformity is almost never a product failure. It is a documentation gap
- A paperless cutting order, at zero latency
- AI applied to steel sheet distribution and cutting
- Calibrated before the batch's first cut
- Coordinated rings against heat deviation and downgraded product
- Delivery note and heat certificate, one tap into the ERP
- Every heat ships with its audit dossier already made
- Heat startup in the melt shop, digitized with a photograph
- Heat traceability, ready in seconds
- Industrial artificial intelligence in flat steel service centers
- Material comes in as coil and leaves as strip. Every transformation can lose its identity
- No data enters your master without a person having seen it first
- Nothing enters the ERP without a human signing it
- On prepainted steel the defect cannot be repaired: it is scrapped. And today your customer finds it
- Real AI cases in long steel
- Scale and WMS, stitched to the ERP with no integration project
- Scrap receiving enters the ERP with a photo, not with typed lines
- The alert you read three hours late, read at second zero
- The bundle label is your product. And today it is produced by typing
- The coil marker stitched to the active order, with no retyping
- The critical changeover validated before the line restarts
- The customer alert, read within seconds instead of hours
- The cut that doesn't pass inspection
- The cutting order enters your system with a photo, not with typing
- The drawing line inspected continuously, with local CNN vision
- The electric arc furnace panel already talks — without touching its PLC
- The heat-control spreadsheet, synced to the ERP
- The lab spreadsheet poured into the ERP, without retyping
- The mill alert that arrives on time
- The most expensive moment of your day depends today on one person's eyesight
- The shift lead dictates while walking the melt shop
- The traceability of everything you will sell is born in a receiving desk that is typed in a hurry
- The vintage shear starts talking
- The warehouse that dictates itself on the move
- The zinc thickness you actually measure and the one your ERP shows are not the same number
- Validate before the data reaches the ERP
- What your shift supervisor knows dies every day in a three-minute handover
- Your cutting line panel has been silent for twenty years. It can speak now
- Zero wrong-heat or wrong-size shipments
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