Intelligent quality management for Marcegaglia Ravenna
Eyeron® is a digital quality improvement solution developed by Fives for steelmakers. It tracks all process steps, quality events and production information across the workshops and automatically qualifies products in real time, significantly improving efficiency and quality control.
Marcegaglia aimed to upgrade its quality control systems to account for diverse customer requirements.
“Due to a wide upstream diversity and a multitude of end customer requirements, we were looking for an intelligent solution to ensure the best quality and substantially reduce the rate of downgraded coils. Eyeron® will be installed throughout the Ravenna plant to bring our production process and quality management to a higher level,” says Michele Manaresi, Quality Manager of Marcegaglia Ravenna.
Proactive quality control
The project consists of several key phases. The first phase of the project took place in 2024, when a pilot solution was implemented at the plant. In addition to the initial functionality of Eyeron® , the pilot solution enabled real-time quality process alarms to be generated, allowing operators to correct quality deviations and increase the number of first-time, first-choice coils.
The project is now moving into the second phase, which involves data collection, rule enforcement, and dashboard customization for the entire plant to consolidate process and quality-related information on a single device.
The collection of data is essential to support the quality rules that allow the assessment of products’ conformity with the end customer’s criteria and propose corrective actions to maximise the rate of qualified products. Data can be analysed remotely by all users from any mobile device or computer.
“Thanks to the collaborative environment we share with Marcegalia Ravenna’s quality and IT departments, we are able to fully customize Eyeron® to their benefit. We look forward to continuing our collaboration by training the operators to adapt the solution to their needs to achieve the maximum benefits that Eyeron® has to offer,” adds Laurent Lesne, Vice President of Steel Digital Development and Operations at Fives.
This will be the second breakthrough digital solution that Fives has supplied to the Marcegaglia plant in recent years. SmartLineTM, a fully automatic control system for enhanced coil processing, has been installed on four galvanizing lines and has been delivering outstanding results since 2021.