Products and Benefits

Smart Steel Technologies (SST) is an industry leader in high-performance scheduling / production planning software.

SST's comprehensive planning software combines and harmonizes complex production routes while targeting multiple complex KPIs and considering mill specific constraints. SST accompanies steel manufacturers from the integration of the software to the complete achievement of the optimization goals with a high service level. 

SST covers a wide range of production planning use cases in the steel industry. From short-term scheduling, over mid-term planning and long product scheduling to material allocation. 

The SST Short-Term Scheduler is the all-in-one production planning software for flat product steel mills and maximizes the efficiency of scheduling. Casting, rolling and combined schedules are automatically created by the software within a minute while considering all mill specific KPIs and constraints based on a given order book.

‍Benefits

• High quality in-time delivery at lowest cost 
• Automate schedule generation, more time efficient planning
• Live production updates and rescheduling
• Optimized schedules based on mill specific KPIs and constraints
• Increase throughput and hot charging
• Reduce energy costs 
• Maximize order fulfillment 
• Update plans in real time 24/7
• Facilitate coarse planning
• Adaptive scheduling strategies
• Minimize transitions losses
• Effectively use thermo-boxes
• Optimize inventory 
• Maximize yield

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The SST Long Product Scheduler is the scheduling software for long product steel mills. It covers forecasting, creation of rolling and casting schedules as well as optimized creation of cut patterns.

Benefits

• Automate schedule generation, more time efficient planning
• Increase yield
• Reduce expert dependency and tribal knowledge
• Keep orders open closer to production 
• Optimize inventory usage
• Automate and optimize cut pattern generation / trimming

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The SST Mid-Term Planner is a comprehensive software that supports resource management, forecasting and decision making.

Benefits

• “What if” scenario simulation
• Scrap planning
• Reduction of production delays and quality issues 
• Inventory management

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The SST Material Allocator is a software module that facilitates reallocating material in stock which missed the original orders and thus reducing stock.‍

Benefits

• Minimize inventory - save costs and increases revenue 
• Maximize utilization of finished and semi-finished products
• Consider mill specific rules, KPIs and constraints 

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All software packages can be implemented individually or combined to utilize their benefits to the max.