Berlin, September 16, 2024 – In their latest steelmaking transformation project, the Nordic and US-based steel company SSAB has selected PSI to design a digital template that will support its digital renewal journey. The project will ensure that new business processes and systems are ready and tested for starting up the Luleå mill at the end of 2028. It will further create a template with modern processes and tools that can be leveraged to reach a more harmonized landscape within SSAB, and deploy new automated and integrated processes based on best-practice standard processes and tools.
At the first site in Lulea, Sweden, the implementation will include PSImetals Planning, Scheduling, Production Execution Solid and Liquid, Quality, and Logistics as well as a modern and standardized Level-2 and Level-4 Integration. The PSImetals software solutions will cover SSAB’s steelmaking processes in the new integrated mini-mill and cold rolling complex, covering the production process from scrap supply to finished goods.
“When we started looking for the right partner, we had a couple of criteria. First of all, where do we get the best experience? Who has the most dedicated software to the steel industry and who has standard processes and enables what we call the template approach? PSI ticked all of those boxes. Production digitalization is really important for SSAB. We are building a greenfield mill, which means that we can design things from ground up based on better utilization of data, for example for better process control, for better predictive quality control. And there it’s really important that we have the right partners and the right tools to support us in that change,” says Niko Korte, Head of Fossil-Free Business Platforms at SSAB.
When we started looking for the right partner, we had a couple of criteria. First of all, where do we get the best experience? Who has the most dedicated software to the steel industry and who has standard processes and enables what we call the template approach? PSI ticked all of those boxes.
SSAB is a global steel company with a leading position in high-strength steels and related services. The steelmaker aims to be the first, in 2026, to offer fossil-free steel to the market and largely eliminate carbon dioxide emissions from their operations in around 2030.
The PSI Group develops software products for optimizing the flow of energy and materials for utilities and industry. As an independent software producer with more than 2,300 employees, PSI has been a technology leader since 1969 for process control systems that ensure sustainable energy supply, mobility and production by combining AI methods with industrially proven optimization methods. The innovative industry products can be operated on-premises or in the cloud.
