ABOUT AITISM

In today's competitive market, the steel industry is constantly pressed for higher productivity and quality besides ensuring safety, energy efficiency and environmental standards. The need for continuous improvement of current methods of production & products to gain competitive advantage by improving efficiencies, reducing costs while meeting the market demand is always a prime concern. Tight profit margins and customized products emphasize the need for automated manufacturing. Automation and information technology has a critical and crucial role to play in achieving these goals.

Steel makers always look out for innovations in the steel making technology. The continuous advancement in the Automation & IT for iron & steel industry has changed the way steel is made. Modern process control and production management technologies play a big role in satisfying the demand to improve product mix, save energy consumption, reduce pollution and enhance competitive edge. Reduction and control of CO2 emission is a major issue being faced by steel industry. Adoption of several energy efficient equipment can surely facilitate adherence to tight environmental norms. Also, Green technology, energy efficient control systems, wireless technology, machine vision system, modeling & simulation, automated tailor made manufacturing, computerized business process etc. have undergone revolutionary changes.

The continuous research & development in the above areas has necessitated exchange of technical information & experiences with implementation issues among the steel and automation fraternity as also deliberation on challenges and opportunities that exist today. Keeping this in view, 2nd International Conference AITISM'09 was held during December 9-11, 2009. The Conference witnessed an overwhelming participation from India and overseas by Steel Producers, Technologists, Academicians and Technology vendors.

In this series a 3rd Conference on “Automation & Information Technology in Iron & Steel Making : Process Improvement and Energy Efficiency (AITISM'12)” is being organised by Computer Society of India (CSI), Ranchi Chapter, in association with R&D Centre for Iron & Steel (RDCIS), Ranchi and Centre for Engineering & Technology (CET), Ranchi, Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) and MECON Limited, Ranchi during February 8-10, 2012.