Real AI cases in long steel
Every case follows the same scheme: the problem as it is lived in the steel mill, the iLEAN piece that solves it and the estimated impact — in the Lean vocabulary of always: gemba, heijunka, jidoka, poka-yoke, SMED. All are deployable piece by piece; you start with one, not with the whole platform.
Capture without changing habits: photo, voice, email, integrations
Paperless heat startup
Payback 4-9 months · from 4-8 h of latency to second zero
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The EAF furnace that starts to talk
Payback 5-10 months · >€500K SCADA CAPEX deferred
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Real-time heijunka from email and WhatsApp
Payback 3-7 months · from 2-4 h of latency to seconds
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Electronic gemba with an earpiece
The gemba stops dying at the end of the shift — Kaizen with real context
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Digital andon with human validation
Enabling piece: nothing enters the ERP without two taps from the operator
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From the laboratory's Excel to the ERP in real time
Payback 4-9 months + −50/−80% QM/PP module licenses
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Scrap receiving into the ERP in five minutes
Payback 3-8 months + −50/−70% MM/WM module licenses
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Coil marking poka-yoke
Payback 3-6 months · zero mislabeled coils, zero stock confusion
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Agents that document, coordinate and defend the audit
More cases from this series
- Every heat ships with its audit dossier already madeEvery heat ships with its auditable dossier: charge mix, chemistry, rolling record and certificates,…
- The coil marker stitched to the active order, with no retypingHeat number, grade and customer travel from the active order to the coil marker with no retyping: the…
- The customer alert, read within seconds instead of hoursOrder changes, quality alerts and scrap supply delays are read, classified and cross-checked against the…
- The electric arc furnace panel already talks — without touching its PLCA camera reads the electric arc furnace panel and every heat carries its real energy and power-on curve…
- Heat startup in the melt shop, digitized with a photographThe heat startup sheet is photographed and the heat exists in the central system at zero latency: scrap…
- The lab spreadsheet poured into the ERP, without retypingChemistry and mechanical readings move from the lab spreadsheet into the ERP with no retyping — and…
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