The scrap metals industry generally lags most of the large mill customers in information technology sophistication, but even small, family owned businesses have come a long way in how they use computers in their day-to-day operations.Arecent front-page article in the Wall Street Journal pointed out that automation is driving the continuing gains in productivity for global steel producers. The article described the efforts under way at ArcelorMittal SA's Burns Harbor, Ind., mill to benchmark itself against one of the Luxembourg-based company's most productive mills in Belgium, noting that Burns Harbor is catching up to the Belgian mill through automation, compterization and "roboticization."
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