According to MET/Con, a SMS group company, the IT solution is being ordered as part of a trial program for a group-wide Industry 4.0 initiative. Called the Product Quality Analyzer, the modular software system analyzes process, production and quality data from steelmaking, casting and rolling, and drawing operations.

“With this quality management system, Swiss Steel aims to further enhance the quality level along the entire production chain, achieve more stability in the production process, further improve on-time delivery performance and optimize the company’s competitiveness in the long run,” the company said in a statement.

Swiss Steel’s Emmenbrücke plant produces about 600,000 tons per year of engineering steel.