The steel industry and plant engineering: from digitalization to a digital eco-system

Windt examines the key drivers of digitalization in the steel industry and plant engineering sector. These key drivers include digital transformations in various processes, increased degrees of automation, and autonomization along production chains. Digitalization has an impact on strategies, processes, structures and products alike, and will lead to sustainable change in the companies taking part In the value added chain. People, machines and commodities will communicate in real time, and learning algorithms will transform value creation chains into dynamically acting value creation networks.