Metals Business Intelligence

Metals Business Intelligence is a comprehensive software solution that enables steel producers to make informed, data-driven decisions. It addresses key challenges, such as tracking performance, identifying process issues, and ensuring smooth operations, all without requiring IT or database expertise. This software solution gives plant managers and process engineers clear, actionable insights by analyzing and visualizing production and quality data. With this information at their fingertips, they can make faster and smarter decisions to keep operations running efficiently.

Metals Business Intelligence from Primetals Technologies is a robust decision-support tool designed explicitly for steel plants. It aids plant and production managers, as well as process engineers, in analyzing and visualizing production and quality data. This capability enables faster and more informed business decisions, which are essential for maintaining a competitive edge in the steel industry.

One challenge in implementing a business intelligence solution in the metals industry is the need to deliver insightful and actionable information without requiring a data scientist. This process involves storing vast amounts of data for extended periods, transforming this data into structured information, and ensuring data quality. Moreover, defining relevant key performance indicators (KPIs) is essential for measuring processes and performance uniformly across all user groups within an organization.

Metals Business Intelligence from Primetals Technologies offers a comprehensive suite of tools for in-depth analysis of production data, all within a powerful, flexible, and user-friendly web-based interface. This setup enables technologists, as well as process and quality engineers, to perform analyses without IT support. The solution includes highly customizable ad hoc reports and dashboards, offering overviews of the current production situation for both process engineers and plant management.

Benefits of Metals Business Intelligence for Steel Plants

• Flexible analysis: analyze production data via a user-friendly web-based frontend without needing IT or database specialists
• Insightful process analyses: generate essential insights to improve production processes and quality
• Customizable reporting: access highly customizable ad-hoc reports and dashboards, including KPIs and custom charts, for a comprehensive overview of production situations
• The Metals Data Warehouse forms the backbone of Metals Business Intelligence, storing vast amounts of production data in a long-term archiving system throughout the plant's lifetime. This data is validated for quality and structured according to the metals domain requirements, providing easy access for big data applications.

Deployment Options

Metals Business Intelligence can be seamlessly integrated with all Primetals Technologies process optimization solutions. It can operate independently from process control and optimization systems, either installed on a separate IT infrastructure on-premises or provided as a cloud solution (m.connect) managed by Primetals Technologies. The cloud solution offers worldwide availability, state-of-the-art security, and the convenience of scalability and elasticity, making data accessible from anywhere, at any time, with any device.

Primetals Technologies is your one-stop partner for IT infrastructure, maintenance, and licenses, ensuring a seamless experience in managing your business intelligence needs. The cloud infrastructure also serves as a collaboration platform between Primetals Technologies and its customers, facilitating service and domain know-how support.

Key Features of Metals Business Intelligence

• Data Warehouse: includes a long-term data archive and data mart for business intelligence
• Unified Business Intelligence: across all user groups
• Ad-Hoc Report Designer: interactive functions such as filtering, charting, and custom calculations
• Self-Service Business Intelligence: simplifies information visualization with data-level security
• Easy Integrability: the intelligence Data Mart integrates with other business intelligence tools.