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Event, Smart Manufacturing
Pittsburgh, PA
United States
The 2026 Digital Transformation Forum for the Steel Industry is a leading platform for steel producers, technology experts and innovators to engage in the ongoing evolution of digitalization across the steel industry. This year's event features a keynote by John Dyck, CESMII CEO.
Digital Transformation Forum for the Steel Industry: From Islands to Ecosystems: Interoperability as the Steel Industry’s Productivity Engine
As reshoring accelerates new mill investments and brownfield upgrades, the differentiator won’t be bigger furnaces or faster lines—it will be the ability of disparate systems to work as one. This keynote makes the case that interoperability and standardization are the fastest, lowest-risk levers to unlock step-change productivity in steel: higher yield and throughput, shorter changeovers, fewer quality escapes, tighter energy control, and real-time genealogy from heat to coil.
As reshoring accelerates new mill investments and brownfield upgrades, the differentiator won’t be bigger furnaces or faster lines—it will be the ability of disparate systems to work as one. This keynote makes the case that interoperability and standardization are the fastest, lowest-risk levers to unlock step-change productivity in steel: higher yield and throughput, shorter changeovers, fewer quality escapes, tighter energy control, and real-time genealogy from heat to coil.