Consulting services

Obviously, the right equipment is essential for high-end steel grades. We plan new plants meticulously after analyzing your purposes. What’s important for revamps is examining the capability of your existing installations to identify the optimum technical improvements.

This includes effective organization of the material flow, operations, and maintenance. It’s equally important to ensure the individual plants operate smoothly and to develop troubleshooting strategies. Another way of boosting efficiency is implementing standardized procedures, e.g. for documentation, quality management, and production planning.

Invaluable to you as a steel producer are grade books that detail formulas, preconditions, parameters, and treatment. Using them, you can rely on accurate descriptions of the operating processes and parameters required for your products. That includes the conditions for chemical analysis, steelmaking, casting, rolling, heat treatment, and surface treatment along the entire process chain.

Automotive manufacturers demand consistent, well-documented quality you can only achieve with tight production control. You need to know the test methods implemented as well as where and how often samples are taken. Seamless analysis, identification, and elimination of defects are vital. Finally, downgrading strategies for non-compliant materials reduce financial losses.

The last success factor is certification. Some certification procedures take place annually and require compliance with general quality standards (e.g. ISO9000) as well as specific industry standards (e.g. automotive industry: TS 16949). Next comes qualification and part approvals for individual manufacturers, which involves meeting a variety of customer-specific benchmarks and regulations. To make the grade here, you must prove you can consistently satisfy organizational standards and produce the material qualities required.