| VDEh-Betriebsforschungsinstitut GmbH (BFI) is a non-profit, limited liability company and one of Europe’s leading private-sector institutes for applied research and development in the field of steel technology. The involved department of “Quality and Information technologies” is specialised to the development of technological systems and their implementation into steel producing processes. BFI is skilled in all kinds of industrial applied computer-based processing, starting from data management over data analysis and utilisation up to knowledge Management. |
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| Thyssenkrupp Rasselstein GmbH (RAS) is a subsidiary of thyssenkrupp Steel AG and is one of the three largest packaging steel producers in Europe. Rasselstein’s 2,400 employees turn out about 1.5 million tons of packaging steel yearly from their Andernach production site, serving over 400 customers in 80 countries – with years of experience and great success. RAS production chain starts from hot strips and ends with the tin plate involving various types of processes such as pickling, cold rolling, degreasing, annealing (batch and continuous), temper rolling, tinning/chromium coating, film laminating, cutting, slitting, lacquering. The production routs can be organised in a very flexible manner in dependence to customer demands. |  |
| Scuola Superiore di Sudi Universitari e di Perfezionamento Sant’Anna (SSSA) is an autonomous, special statute public university operating in the field of applied sciences with the aims of promoting the development of culture, scientific and technological research, and innovation. SSSA will participate to the project through the centre of ICT for Complex Industrial Systems and Processes (ICT-COISP) of the Institute of Communication Information and Perception Technologies (TeCIP). ICT-COISP is very active in the research field in both process and manufacturing industries and holds an extensive expertise in development and software implementation of mathematical models of industrial processes and application of traditional and advanced (also Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based) techniques to complex industrial processes and machineries simulation, monitoring and control, including analysis and mining of data coming from the same applications. |  |
| Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM)), the Technical University of Madrid is the largest Spanish technological university. With two recognitions as Campus of International Excellence, it is outstanding in its research activity together with its training of highly qualified professionals. Heading the Spanish University participations in the European Framework programmes with more than 280 projects, they are internationally renowned and competitive. |  |