ArcelorMittal has commenced a strategic collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to accelerate industrial automation across its operations.
The agreement will bring AWS cloud and AI capabilities to ArcelorMittal’s manufacturing process, providing opportunities for further optimisation and improvement of safety and efficiency.
Tanuja Randery, managing director, EMEA, AWS, said: “ArcelorMittal is rethinking how steelmaking works, from predictive maintenance on furnaces and other industrial installations, to AI-driven energy optimisation.
“By bringing AI to the point of production, they are creating new ways of running safer, more efficient operations across steelmaking sites in 14 countries. We are delighted to work with customers who think at this level, and AWS is proud to support ArcelorMittal’s ambition with cloud, edge, and AI technology built for industrial scale.”
ArcelorMittal will converge some of its operation technology and information technology on AWS infrastructure, designed for security and scale.
Nik Puri, group CIO at ArcelorMittal, added: “The next frontier of digital transformation for steel is on the plant floor. With AWS, we are bringing cloud and AI directly to the point of production, connecting our assets and building plants that sense, learn and optimise in real time.
“By converging our operational and information technology on a single secure platform, we are moving to digitally enabled operations: safer for our people, more reliable in output, and more sustainable by design. This is how we industrialise AI at scale across the steelmaking value chain.”
As well as the strategic partnership, Amazon has entered into a multi-year Supply Framework Agreement with ArcelorMittal for the supply of structural steel across Europe and the UK.
