Looking to improve the OEE of your lines, extend your campaigns and reduce your cost per tonne? We have been deploying operational excellence in the steel industry for 25 years — blast furnaces, steelworks, continuous casting, rolling mills.
The steel industry forgives nothing: a continuous process in which every unplanned stoppage costs hundreds of thousands of euros, massive energy costs, and campaigns whose duration determines profitability. Operational excellence therefore takes a specific form here: TPM on critical equipment (converters, continuous casters, rolling stands), OEE management line by line, reduction of scrap and downgrades, synchronisation between the steelworks and the rolling mill. A typical assignment: on an integrated European site, our workstreams significantly raised the OEE of 3 critical lines and sharply reduced scrap — with fully autonomous teams by the end of the assignment. Our 34 technical articles on steelmaking reflect this hands-on expertise.
Blast furnaces, converters, continuous casters: we know the constraints of continuous firing — you cannot stop the plant to "run a project", improvements are made while running.
A core SXE competence: refractory performance (campaign life, cost per tonne) is part of the operational excellence equation in steelmaking.
Specific consumption (GJ/t), charging practice, heat recovery: energy is an improvement area in its own right.
Our operational excellence services, adapted to the constraints of the steelmaking process.
Resolve a bottleneck in five days, reduce changeover times.
Steering performance as close to the shop floor as possible.
significant OEE gains on your critical equipment.
Proof of concept in 90 days with measured ROI.
Train your internal champions, certify your Belts.
Inventory, S&OP, flows — the entire chain.
Few consultancies genuinely know the steel industry from the inside — it is where we come from.
Our consultants have worked on European steel sites — blast furnaces, steelworks, rolling mills. They speak in tonnes, campaigns and GJ/t, not only OEE.
Integrated refractory expertise (specifications, supervision, campaigns) complements operational excellence: a complete view of the cost per tonne.
Significant gains in OEE, scrap and campaign life: our steel industry references are measured and verifiable.
4 simple steps, from first contact to measured results.
30 minutes on the phone to understand your context and your challenges. Free of charge.
2 to 5 days at your site: observation, measurements, team interviews.
Prioritised levers, gains estimated in €, contractually committed KPIs.
Improvement projects with your teams, monthly measurement, transfer of skills.
A first 30-minute call to identify your levers — OEE, scrap, campaigns, energy.
