IndiaManufacturing2023 – ongoingTata Steel
SMART machine-learning optimisation for cooling towers
Tata Steel implemented machine learning to improve cooling-tower efficiency
Problem
Tata Steel sought to reduce cooling-tower energy and water consumption while maintaining operations.
Approach
Tata Steel implemented the SMART cooling-tower solution during FY2023-24. The package used a machine-learning algorithm. The company attributed lower resource consumption and operating expenses to the system without reporting operational disruption.
Results
No published figures
Takeaway
The reported benefits came from improving an auxiliary plant system. Tata Steel did not quantify the energy or water savings.
Categories
- Size
- Large enterprise
- Industry
- Manufacturing
- Business function
- Production and quality
- Innovation type
- Process innovation
- AI technology
- Predictive analytics and MLOptimization
- Adoption
- Off-the-shelf tool or platform
- Evidence
- Company's own claim
Sources
Source summaries
Tata Steel identified SMART as a machine-learning cooling-tower implementation during FY2023-24. It reported improved energy efficiency and lower water consumption, emissions and operating expenses without numerical savings.
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