scholarly journals Current and future aspects of the digital transformation in the European Steel Industry

2020 ◽  
Vol 108 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 508 ◽  
Author(s):  
Teresa Annunziata Branca ◽  
Barbara Fornai ◽  
Valentina Colla ◽  
Maria Maddalena Murri ◽  
Eliana Streppa ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Steel Industry ◽  
Industry 4.0 ◽  
Production Efficiency ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Full Potential ◽  
The European Union ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Technological Transformation ◽  
Technological Developments ◽  
Steel Sector

The technological transformation in the European steel industry is driven by digitalization, which has the potential to strongly contribute to improving production efficiency and sustainability. The present paper describes part of the work developed in the early stage of the project entitled “Blueprint ‘New Skills Agenda Steel’: Industry-driven sustainable European Steel Skills Agenda and Strategy (ESSA)”, which is funded by the Erasmus Plus Programme of the European Union. The project aims at achieving an industry driven, sustainable and coordinated blueprint for addressing the economic, digital and technological developments, as well as increasing energy efficiency and environmental demands through continuously update of qualification, knowledge and skill profiles of the workforce. On the one hand, main aspects of the current state of the technological transformation in the steel sector are described through the analysis of the main recent innovation projects and developments. On the other hand, survey results from a dedicated questionnaire addressed to the European steel companies are analyzed, providing an overview on the (planned) technological transformation affecting the steel sector. The existing levels of plant automation and the possible adoption of the new paradigm of Industry 4.0 are discussed, by also considering the possible impact on the workforce. Main results are that the steel industry foresees an implementation of almost all Industry 4.0 technologies not only for competitive but also environmental improvement. Because this is foreseen in an incremental way upskilling of the existing workforce is a precondition, not only because of recruitment difficulties on the employment market but also because the existing qualification and experience of the workplace is necessary to unfold the full potential of digital and green transformation.

scholarly journals Industry 4.0 and Future of Korean Steel Sector

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-16
Author(s):  
Irene Chon ◽  
◽  
Kevin Kang ◽  
Luke Jun ◽  
Alex Eugene Han ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Steel Industry ◽  
Industry 4.0 ◽  
Production Efficiency ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Production Chain ◽  
Economic Changes ◽  
Iron And Steel ◽  
Significant Acceleration ◽  
Fast Development ◽  
Steel Sector

Digitalization is a fundamental process that begun several decades ago, but which got a significant acceleration by Industry 4.0 and now directly affects all the process and industrial industries. It is anticipated to enable the Korean industry to improve its production efficiency and its sustainability. In particular, in the energy-intensive industries, such as the steel industry, digitalization concerns the application of the related technologies to the production processes, focusing on two main often overlapping directions: Advanced tools for the optimization of the production chain and specific technologies for low-carbon and sustainable production. Furthermore, the fast development of technology in the steel industry demands the continual updating of the skills of the industrial personnel. This article, the case study of Korean businesses, presents the backdrop of digitalization and several key concepts in the Korean iron and steel sector. The effect of digitalization on the steel sector personnel is examined along with the anticipated economic changes.

Industry 4.0 and Its Impact on Working Life

2021 ◽  
pp. 1164-1177
Author(s):  
Gokhan Ofluoglu
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Industry 4.0 ◽  
Production Efficiency ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Muscle Power ◽  
Energy Productivity ◽  
Technological Developments ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Aging Societies

The natural development of history of humanity confronts the societies with a new industrial wave making use of the opportunities of the information and communication technologies. While the concept of labor depending on muscle force that produced the emergence of modern societies withdraws from production process, the gap is filled by intelligent machinery which automatically decides by itself by employing machinery automation and internet technologies. In the new social order, people determine their own standing according to their intellectual build-up instead of muscle power. Industry 4.0 brings a lot of advantages together with the reduction of source consumption, energy productivity, production efficiency, stabilization of rising workforce expenditures, and prevention of the impact of aging societies on production. Although problems come up on the issues of setting the intelligence of machinery and accomplishing workforce market that fits the industrial revolution, technological developments and the subsidies draw the actualization date of the process forward.

scholarly journals The Challenge of Digitalization in the Steel Sector

Metals ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 288 ◽  
Author(s):  
Teresa Annunziata Branca ◽  
Barbara Fornai ◽  
Valentina Colla ◽  
Maria Maddalena Murri ◽  
Eliana Streppa ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Steel Industry ◽  
Production Efficiency ◽  
Rapid Evolution ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Production Chain ◽  
Iron And Steel ◽  
Steel Sector ◽  
European Industry ◽  
Economic Developments ◽  
The Impact

Digitalization represents a paramount process started some decades ago, but which received a strong acceleration by Industry 4.0 and now directly impacts all the process and manufacturing sectors. It is expected to allow the European industry to increase its production efficiency and its sustainability. In particular, in the energy-intensive industries, such as the steel industry, digitalization concerns the application of the related technologies to the production processes, focusing on two main often overlapping directions: Advanced tools for the optimization of the production chain and specific technologies for low-carbon and sustainable production. Furthermore, the rapid evolution of the technologies in the steel sector require the continuous update of the skills of the industrial workforce. The present review paper, resulting from a recent study developed inside a Blueprint European project, introduces the context of digitalization and some important definitions in both the European industry and the European iron and steel sector. The current technological transformation is depicted, and the main developments funded by European Research Programs are analyzed. Moreover, the impact of digitalization on the steel industry workforce are considered together with the foreseen economic developments.

scholarly journals Industrial policy and competition policy. State aid and the restructuring of the European steel industry in the 1980s

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (82) ◽  
pp. 163-192
Author(s):  
Miguel Ángel Sáez-García ◽  
Pablo Díaz-Morlán
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Policy ◽  
Steel Industry ◽  
Competition Policy ◽  
Main Tool ◽  
State Aid ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Historical Archives ◽  
Steel Sector ◽  
Community Restructuring ◽  
State Aid Control

Using documents from the Historical Archives of the European Union, the article assesses the results of the restructuring of the European Community steel sector carried out at the beginning of the 1980s, considered to be the first European industrial policy. The article concludes that State aid control by the European Commission, through the so-called aid codes, was the main tool of the Community restructuring policy and contributed to resolve the crisis that the sector had been suffering from the mid-1970s, even though the objectives set by the Commission were not fully achieved.

Industry 4.0 and Its Impact on Working Life

2020 ◽  
pp. 455-468
Author(s):  
Gokhan Ofluoglu
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Industry 4.0 ◽  
Production Efficiency ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Muscle Power ◽  
Energy Productivity ◽  
Technological Developments ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Aging Societies

The natural development of history of humanity confronts the societies with a new industrial wave making use of the opportunities of the information and communication technologies. While the concept of labor depending on muscle force that produced the emergence of modern societies withdraws from production process, the gap is filled by intelligent machinery which automatically decides by itself by employing machinery automation and internet technologies. In the new social order, people determine their own standing according to their intellectual build-up instead of muscle power. Industry 4.0 brings a lot of advantages together with the reduction of source consumption, energy productivity, production efficiency, stabilization of rising workforce expenditures, and prevention of the impact of aging societies on production. Although problems come up on the issues of setting the intelligence of machinery and accomplishing workforce market that fits the industrial revolution, technological developments and the subsidies draw the actualization date of the process forward.

scholarly journals Digitalisation and Innovation in the Steel Industry in Poland—Selected Tools of ICT in an Analysis of Statistical Data and a Case Study

Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (11) ◽  
pp. 3034
Author(s):  
Bożena Gajdzik ◽  
Radosław Wolniak
Keyword(s):  
Digital Technology ◽  
Steel Industry ◽  
Industry 4.0 ◽  
Statistical Data ◽  
Background Information ◽  
Important Research Topic ◽  
Steel Sector ◽  
Secondary Information ◽  
Industry Sectors

Digital technologies enable companies to build cyber-physical systems (CPS) in Industry 4.0. In the increasingly popular concept of Industry 4.0, an important research topic is the application of digital technology in industry, and in particular in specific industry sectors. The aim of this paper is to present the tools used in the steel industry in Poland on its way to the full digitalisation that is needed for the development of Industry 4.0. The paper consists of two parts: a literature review and a practical analysis. The paper provides the background information about digitalisation using digital tools in the steel industry in Poland. The paper was prepared based on secondary information and statistical data. The object of the research is the Polish steel sector. This study assumes that digitalisation is the main area of innovation in the steel industry. The digitalisation determines the creation of new or modified products, processes, techniques and expansion of the company’s infrastructure; therefore, the data on digital technology were supplemented with data on the innovativeness of the Polish steel sector. The results of this study provide managers with valuable information to understand the importance of full digitalisation and the need to focus on digital strategies. Such insights can be used to improve companies’ processing capabilities and produce better products, which is key to innovation.

scholarly journals Institutional complementarities and technological transformation: IVET responsiveness to Industry 4.0 – meeting emerging skill needs in the European steel industry

2021 ◽  
pp. 0143831X2110592
Author(s):  
Luca Antonazzo ◽  
Dean Stroud ◽  
Martin Weinel
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Theory ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
Steel Industry ◽  
Vocational Training ◽  
Industry 4.0 ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Technological Transformation ◽  
Training Systems ◽  
Work And Employment

Digital technology is gradually changing the organisation of production and work. In this article, the authors explore the implications of such developments for workers through the lens of skill, and the skill needs developing out of the shift towards Industry 4.0 technologies now being employed within the European steel industry. Specifically, the article examines the preparedness of initial vocational training systems to support adaptation to Industry 4.0 and the changes in work and employment that will follow. The article addresses such developments from the point of view of institutional theory, analysing how different institutional architectures influence responses to change.

scholarly journals Development of a Coordinate Measuring Machine—Based Inspection Planning System for Industry 4.0

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (18) ◽  
pp. 8411
Author(s):  
Slavenko M. Stojadinovic ◽  
Vidosav D. Majstorovic ◽  
Adam Gąska ◽  
Jerzy Sładek ◽  
Numan M. Durakbasa
Keyword(s):  
Industry 4.0 ◽  
Production Efficiency ◽  
Coordinate Measuring Machine ◽  
Measurement Process ◽  
Planning System ◽  
Smart Manufacturing ◽  
Inspection Planning ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Measuring Machine ◽  
Measurement Verification

Industry 4.0 represents a new paradigm which creates new requirements in the area of manufacturing and manufacturing metrology such as to reduce the cost of product, flexibility, mass customization, quality of product, high level of digitalization, optimization, etc., all of which contribute to smart manufacturing and smart metrology systems. This paper presents a developed inspection planning system based on CMM as support of the smart metrology within Industry 4.0 or manufacturing metrology 4.0 (MM4.0). The system is based on the application of three AI techniques such as engineering ontology (EO), GA and ants colony optimization (ACO). The developed system consists of: the ontological knowledge base; the mathematical model for generating strategy of initial MP; the model of analysis and optimization of workpiece setups and probe configuration; the path simulation model in MatLab, PTC Creo and STEP-NC Machine software, and the model of optimization MP by applying ACO. The advantage of the model is its suitability for monitoring of the measurement process and digitalization of the measurement process planning, simulation carried out and measurement verification based on CMM, reduction of the preparatory measurement time as early as in the inspection planning phase and minimizing human involvement or human errors through intelligent planning, which directly influences increased production efficiency, competitiveness, and productivity of enterprises. The measuring experiment was performed using a machined prismatic workpiece (PW).

THE CONCEPT OF AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS IN INDUSTRY 4.0

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-87
Author(s):  
György Kovács ◽  
Rabab Benotsmane ◽  
László Dudás
Keyword(s):  
Industry 4.0 ◽  
Intelligent Systems ◽  
Autonomous Systems ◽  
Essential Element ◽  
Industrial Sector ◽  
Life Cycles ◽  
Multi Agent Systems ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Intelligent Machines ◽  
Digital Network

Recent tendencies – such as the life-cycles of products are shorter while consumers require more complex and more unique final products – poses many challenges to the production. The industrial sector is going through a paradigm shift. The traditional centrally controlled production processes will be replaced by decentralized control, which is built on the self-regulating ability of intelligent machines, products and workpieces that communicate with each other continuously. This new paradigm known as Industry 4.0. This conception is the introduction of digital network-linked intelligent systems, in which machines and products will communicate to one another in order to establish smart factories in which self-regulating production will be established. In this article, at first the essence, main goals and basic elements of Industry 4.0 conception is described. After it the autonomous systems are introduced which are based on multi agent systems. These systems include the collaborating robots via artificial intelligence which is an essential element of Industry 4.0.

THE FOURTH INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION (INDUSTRY 4.0) A SOCIAL INNOVATION PERSPECTIVE

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Klaus Schwab
Keyword(s):  
Industry 4.0 ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
Socioeconomic Impact ◽  
Fourth Industrial Revolution ◽  
Technological Developments ◽  
Rapid Pace ◽  
Sustainable System ◽  
Industrial Revolutions

The rapid pace of technological developments played a key role in the previous industrial revolutions. However, the fourth industrial revolution (Industry 4.0) and its embedded technology diffusion progress is expected to grow exponentially in terms of technical change and socioeconomic impact. Therefore, coping with such transformation require a holistic approach that encompasses innovative and sustainable system solutions and not just technological ones. In this article, we propose a framework that can facilitate the interaction between technological and social innovation to continuously come up with proactive, and hence timely, sustainable strategies. These strategies can leverage economic rewards, enrich society at large, and protect the environment. The new forthcoming opportunities that will be generated through the next industrial wave are gigantic at all levels. However, the readiness for such revolutionary conversion require coupling the forces of technological innovation and social innovation under the sustainability umbrella.

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