Microsoft and Tenova innovate steel industry

Microsoft and Tenova have strengthened their Industry 4.0 partnership. by leveraging the Microsoft Azure platform and Tenova's innovative steel solutions. Both companies aim to spearhead the digital transformation of a sector that plays a key role in global economic growth, producing $ 2,500 billion in products each year and employing over 6 million people worldwide. The aim of this renewed partnership is to provide Italian steel companies with industrial solutions based on artificial intelligence technology to assess the large volume of data coming from industrial plants in order to monitor their operations and performance. as well as a guarantee of the quality of the final product.

This collaboration is based on three pillars: predictive monitoring and maintenance, which allows you to establish the health status of plants, change production parameters to ensure high productivity and minimize downtime; streamline operations and internal process management to safely and sustainably improve performance and scalability; cooperation and continuous commitment to innovation between technology experts and plant operators, the so-called human factor, the use of ideas related to the use of equipment, thanks to industry knowledge and experience, in order to transform raw data into relevant information.

Several companies have already adopted Tenova solutions enhanced by Microsoft technology, including ORI Martin, a Brescia-based high-quality steel company, Tenova's partner in the ambitious Acciaio_4.0 lighthouse plant. The aim is to turn the production site in Brescia into a smart factory through the application of the advanced technologies of Industry 4.0, thus becoming a model for innovation within the sector and not only at the national level.

Tenaris, one of the world's largest manufacturers and suppliers of steel pipes and services for the global energy sector, has also built a team of data scientists whose mission is to overcome industrial challenges and use digital solutions. Since then, Tenaris has initiated a large number of use cases related to manufacturing processes, some of which in collaboration with Tenova and Microsoft, realizing that the ability to process and interpret large amounts of data in real time is critical to supporting business continuity. globally.