This book addresses digitalization and the steel industry. It is written from the perspective of both industrial engineering and data science and discusses digitalization problems, novel production planning and scheduling algorithms in ironmaking and steelmaking, machine learning applications and opportunities in steel plants and quality-related algorithms in steel plants.

Even though digitalization is an important trend in steel industry, current contributions mainly focus on lower automation levels, i.e., field and control levels, that are mainly covered in mechanical, electrical and material engineering domains. On higher planning levels, there are hardly comprehensive scientific contributions on intelligent digitalization issues available. This book fills this gap.