en.Wedoany.com Reported - Luxembourg-based steelmaker ArcelorMittal has entered into a strategic partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to integrate advanced cloud, artificial intelligence (AI), and edge computing technologies directly into its steel manufacturing processes, accelerating industrial automation.
Under the agreement, ArcelorMittal plans to consolidate some of its operational technology and IT systems onto the AWS infrastructure, extending cloud computing and AI capabilities to the edge of the production environment. Tanuja Randery, Managing Director and Vice President of AWS EMEA, stated that ArcelorMittal is rethinking steel manufacturing, with applications ranging from predictive maintenance of furnaces and other industrial equipment to AI-driven energy optimization.
A report by Deloitte shows that 44% of energy, resources, and industrial (ER&I) organizations consider AI "highly important" to manufacturing functions over the next five years. The report notes that the ER&I sector remains centered around physical work and physical assets, many of which are geographically dispersed and disconnected from digital networks, while the widespread deployment of Internet of Things (IoT) technology is filling this data gap. ArcelorMittal said it will leverage AWS's industrial IoT, real-time sensor data, and machine learning services to deploy AI at the point of production, enabling predictive maintenance, computer vision-based quality control, process optimization, and digital twins of physical assets and production lines.
Nik Puri, Chief Information Officer and Chief Information Security Officer of ArcelorMittal Group, believes that the next frontier of steel digital transformation lies on the factory floor. By integrating operational technology and information technology onto a single secure platform, the company is moving toward digital operations that are safer for employees, more reliable in output, and inherently more sustainable by design.
Addressing workforce skills, AWS will design and deliver a comprehensive education program for ArcelorMittal's global employees to address the primary barrier to AI deployment—the lack of internal AI expertise. Deloitte's report emphasized the need to build resource teams with expertise in AI, data science, and data engineering.
In addition to the cloud and AI collaboration, Amazon has signed a multi-year framework supply agreement with ArcelorMittal to supply structural steel in Europe and the UK. ArcelorMittal will provide its low-carbon XCarb steel for Amazon's operational facilities and AWS data centers, supporting Amazon's goal of achieving net-zero carbon emissions by 2040. The agreement reflects a shared commitment to advancing building decarbonization at scale.
