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Technology Days Flat Rolling Mills

Participants of Flat Rolling Technology Days

Hilchenbach, 11. Aug 2023

Latest technical solutions for flat rolling mills

In May 2023, SMS group had invited flat rolling mill customers to the in-house competence center in Hilchenbach (Germany) to present new possibilities for performance and product improvement. Forty participants were in for two days of interesting and wide-ranging presentations from our experts in the fields of service, product development, electrics & automation and digital solutions.

Examples of topics addressed were increasing plant availability, increasing the economic efficiency of production, ways of predicting downtimes, as well as the fast and expert repair of complex assemblies and the provision of spare parts for the earliest possible resumption of production. In addition, new developments of related equipment were presented.

A special highlight was the tour through the workshop, which once again proved the range of competences we bundle under one roof.  "I knew that the SMS group can do engineering and construction, but now I also know that it can do production.", said Lutz Kaufmann, Plant Manager Hot/Cold Rolling Mill of Speira GmbH.

Due to the positive response and in order to cover our large SMS group product portfolio, the Service Europe team is planning to organize similar events at regular intervals in the future and thus address more and more customers in a targeted manner.

By integrating technical service, automation and digital solutions, we offer customized solutions that meet our customers' needs. With our high level of technical expertise along the entire process chain, we focus on the performance and process efficiency of our customers' plants and not just on the equipment.