The alliance offers steelmakers a comprehensive way to use Midrex’s and AMI’s latest digital tools and extensive process know-how together to optimize the complete direct reduced iron (DRI)/electric arc furnace (EAF) process. 

Midrex has introduced Remote Professional Services (RPS) as part of MidrexConnect^®. RPS digitally transforms data into actions. Midrex engineers in Charlotte, N.C., USA, can evaluate a MIDREX® plant anywhere in the world in real time to optimize product quality and process performance, enhance equipment protection, and increase plant availability.

AMI will provide its suite of SmartFurnace™ products and services to optimize EAFs. The new approach, OPTaaSTM (Optimization-as-a-Service), provides the equipment, technical know-how, and continuous remote monitoring and support to ensure the highest efficiency EAF performance.

“We are thrilled to have this strategic relationship with Midrex,” said Fernando Martinez, vice president and co-founder of AMI Automation. “AMI has a long history of helping our customers use our technology to operate the most efficient EAFs in the world. Working with Midrex will allow, for the first time, the entire steelmaking process to be coordinated.”

“The power of digitalization is allowing us to better focus our process expertise on optimizing the performance of MIDREX Plants,” KC Woody, chief operating officer of Midrex Technologies, said. “By teaming up with AMI, we can offer our customers practical and sustainable solutions from the DRI plant through the EAF meltshop.”

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