Marcegaglia, a major carbon and stainless-steel producer, and Fives, an international engineering group, have reached an agreement to install Eyeron®, an intelligent quality management system, at its Ravenna plant in Italy.
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.
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, 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.
This will be the second breakthrough digital solution that Fives has supplied to the Marcegaglia plant in recent years.