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ArcelorMittal's Data-Driven Transformation with Azure for Industry 4.0

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Technology Category	Functional Applications - Computerized Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS) Functional Applications - Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES)
Applicable Industries	Automotive Mining
Applicable Functions	Maintenance Product Research & Development
Use Cases	Manufacturing System Automation Predictive Maintenance
Services	Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services
Challenge	ArcelorMittal, a leading steel and mining company headquartered in Luxembourg, was facing challenges with its on-premises data centers. The company had data centers in almost all major European countries where it stored its SAP applications. However, maintaining these data centers was becoming increasingly costly and inefficient. The company was investing heavily in the servers and infrastructure needed to operate them. The company began to question the viability of these data centers and whether it was time to move their SAP and non-SAP workload to the cloud. The challenge was to find a solution that would not only reduce costs but also provide a platform for innovation and growth. Read More
About Customer	ArcelorMittal is a global leader in steel manufacturing, operating in more than 60 countries around the world. The company runs steelmaking facilities in 17 countries and posted $53.3 billion-worth of revenue in 2020. Producing a mammoth 71.5 million metric tons of crude steel and 58.0 million metric tons of iron ore every year, ArcelorMittal has thousands of clients spread across several sectors, including automotive, construction, packaging, energy, and transport. The company employs some 71,000 people across 400 European locations. ArcelorMittal's mission is to invent smarter steels for a better world. Read More
Solution	ArcelorMittal partnered with NTT DATA Business Solutions AG to migrate its SAP applications to the cloud using Microsoft's Azure. The migration process, which began in spring 2020, has resulted in most workloads now being fully operational on Azure. This has provided ArcelorMittal with a transparent solution that allows them to make informed decisions on where they can optimize IT resources and control costs. The company is now using Azure solutions to enable intelligent analytics to support their data scientist team and their work on offers management. The company has also started producing reports and dashboards that provide real-time access to data, enabling them to react based on it. The next step for ArcelorMittal is to implement new predictive maintenance tools in ArcelorMittal Europe – Flat Products, combining SAP data with data from production lines to better organize production strategies and predict where maintenance is needed. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Functional Applications - Computerized Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS)

Functional Applications - Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES)

Applicable Industries

Automotive

Mining

Applicable Functions

Maintenance

Product Research & Development

Use Cases

Manufacturing System Automation

Predictive Maintenance

Services

Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services

Challenge

ArcelorMittal, a leading steel and mining company headquartered in Luxembourg, was facing challenges with its on-premises data centers. The company had data centers in almost all major European countries where it stored its SAP applications. However, maintaining these data centers was becoming increasingly costly and inefficient. The company was investing heavily in the servers and infrastructure needed to operate them. The company began to question the viability of these data centers and whether it was time to move their SAP and non-SAP workload to the cloud. The challenge was to find a solution that would not only reduce costs but also provide a platform for innovation and growth.

About Customer

ArcelorMittal is a global leader in steel manufacturing, operating in more than 60 countries around the world. The company runs steelmaking facilities in 17 countries and posted $53.3 billion-worth of revenue in 2020. Producing a mammoth 71.5 million metric tons of crude steel and 58.0 million metric tons of iron ore every year, ArcelorMittal has thousands of clients spread across several sectors, including automotive, construction, packaging, energy, and transport. The company employs some 71,000 people across 400 European locations. ArcelorMittal's mission is to invent smarter steels for a better world.

Solution

ArcelorMittal partnered with NTT DATA Business Solutions AG to migrate its SAP applications to the cloud using Microsoft's Azure. The migration process, which began in spring 2020, has resulted in most workloads now being fully operational on Azure. This has provided ArcelorMittal with a transparent solution that allows them to make informed decisions on where they can optimize IT resources and control costs. The company is now using Azure solutions to enable intelligent analytics to support their data scientist team and their work on offers management. The company has also started producing reports and dashboards that provide real-time access to data, enabling them to react based on it. The next step for ArcelorMittal is to implement new predictive maintenance tools in ArcelorMittal Europe – Flat Products, combining SAP data with data from production lines to better organize production strategies and predict where maintenance is needed.

Impact #1	The migration to Azure has revolutionized the way ArcelorMittal operates. The company's model is now entirely built on data which they can analyze in real time, use to make predictions and reduce costs. The migration has also opened up new avenues for innovation, enabling the company to create a data-led, cost-efficient model that they can build upon in the future. The company's teams have a clearer view of cost control options than ever before, and are more convinced that this is the right way to go forward. The migration has also enabled the company to cope with the COVID-19 crisis in an efficient and reactive way, by providing fresh new data every day on the state of their products and operations throughout Europe.

Impact #1

The migration to Azure has revolutionized the way ArcelorMittal operates. The company's model is now entirely built on data which they can analyze in real time, use to make predictions and reduce costs. The migration has also opened up new avenues for innovation, enabling the company to create a data-led, cost-efficient model that they can build upon in the future. The company's teams have a clearer view of cost control options than ever before, and are more convinced that this is the right way to go forward. The migration has also enabled the company to cope with the COVID-19 crisis in an efficient and reactive way, by providing fresh new data every day on the state of their products and operations throughout Europe.

Benefit #1	Migration to Azure has led to significant cost savings by eliminating the need for on-premises data centers.
Benefit #2	The company now has real-time access to data, enabling daily reports instead of weekly or monthly ones.
Benefit #3	The cloud migration has enabled the company to automate the process of proposing optimized offers to customers.

Benefit #1

Migration to Azure has led to significant cost savings by eliminating the need for on-premises data centers.

Benefit #2

The company now has real-time access to data, enabling daily reports instead of weekly or monthly ones.

Benefit #3

The cloud migration has enabled the company to automate the process of proposing optimized offers to customers.

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ArcelorMittal's Data-Driven Transformation with Azure for Industry 4.0

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