In order to maintain competitiveness in the steel market, embracing digitalization is essential for accelerating product development processes. It is crucial to address complexities and improve efficiency in steel production, which can be compromised by variations in raw material quality and the need for precise control over alloying elements. The Digitally Enhanced New Steel product development (DENS) programme by M2i and Tata Steel has aimed to advance process modelling for steel new product development to a maturity level where it can dramatically shorten the time to market for new steel alloying concepts without compromising on steel production efficiency
The Digitally Enhanced New Steel product development (DENS) programme has aimed to bring through process modelling for steel new product development to a maturity level where it can dramatically shorten the time to market for new steel alloying concepts without compromising on steel production efficiency. In modern strip steel grades, the steel production process has a decisive effect on the final properties. Furthermore, the trend is towards complex, multi-phase microstructures which require very sophisticated models to describe the mechanical properties of these steel grades. Together, it means that a through process model from process to engineering properties must contain many sub models that strongly interact with each other. The main scientific challenge addressed in this programme was to integrate all state-of-the-art sub-models (initially) available in one through-process model framework that can be applied in practice for new steel product development. In building this through-process modelling chain, it was then possible to identify gaps and weakest links that had to be filled or improved.