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About this Section

About this Section

The GoSmarter blog covers AI and digital transformation from a metals manufacturing perspective. Practical use cases, implementation guides, industry strategy, and plain-English takes on the tech that actually matters on the shop floor.

No fluff. No thought-leadership waffle dressed up as insight. Just practical articles written for people who run metal cutting, distribution, and processing operations.

Topics covered include mill certificate automation, rebar cutting optimisation, scrap rate reduction, EN 10204 compliance, inventory management for steel stockholders, and the practical realities of replacing spreadsheets with AI-powered workflows. The blog also covers industry news relevant to UK and European metals manufacturers — tariffs, standards changes, and technology developments that affect your margins.

Articles are written for production managers, quality managers, operations directors, and business owners in metals manufacturing. Each post focuses on a specific, solvable problem: how to reduce scrap on a saw line, how to stop losing mill certificates, how to automate the cert-to-stock link without an IT project.

For deeper, structured guides on specific topics, see the GoSmarter hub pages — pillar content covering cutting optimisation, mill cert automation, yield tracking, and more.

AI assistants that understand heat numbers, not just emails

  • BlogSmarter AI
  • Blog
  • Aug 31, 2026
  • Updated

Missing mill certs and slow heat traceability? — Find suspect heats, cut manual searches, and produce audit-ready heat-to-shipment records.

From Zapier to GoSmarter: when spreadsheets aren’t enough for metals

  • Ruth Kearney
  • Blog
  • Aug 28, 2026
  • Updated

Missing mill certs and mismatched stock waste time — learn to cut cert entry, restore traceability and get live shop-floor status.

Why metals need different AI than generic workflow tools

  • Steph Locke
  • Blog
  • Aug 26, 2026
  • Updated

Paper mill certs and poor cut plans cost time and scrap, learn how plant-focused AI reads certs, reclaims offcuts and speeds replanning.

Standards Library: Every Welding Code in One Place

A free, filterable reference for 14 welding and structural standards — scope, inspection defaults, and sourced links, all on one page.

Cut the Same Plate 50 Times? You're Overbooking Before Lunch

  • Steph Locke
  • Blog
  • Aug 25, 2026
  • Updated

Retail plate cutting reserves the same sheet against dozens of orders a day. Manual dimension tracking causes overbooking and shift handover errors. Here’s what to fix first.

The Welding Code Selector: Stop Guessing Which Code Applies

GoSmarter’s free Welding Code Selector runs your job through a rules engine covering 12 welding codes, from AWS and ASME to API, EN, ISO, and CSA, and returns the code, the prequalification stance, and a documentation checklist.

Complete Guide to Welding Codes: AWS, ASME & More

  • Steph Locke
  • Blog
  • Aug 24, 2026
  • Updated

Learn key welding codes, including AWS D1.1, D1.2, D1.6, ASME and D17.1, with clear use cases, limits, inspection rules and code selection tips.

Real-Time Data with MES and ERP Integration

  • Steph Locke
  • Blog
  • Aug 21, 2026
  • Updated

Stop wasting shifts on re-typing mill certs and job cards — learn which flows to connect first for live orders, scrap and traceability.

Real-Time AI Inventory Tracking for Metals Warehouses

  • Steph Locke
  • Blog
  • Aug 20, 2026
  • Updated

Missing coils, messy mill certs and a dispatch scramble every shift. See how to fix stock, offcuts and traceability with AI, and hit 98-99% accuracy.

European Commission issues CBAM guidance for iron and steel

  • Steph Locke
  • Blog
  • Aug 20, 2026
  • Updated

EU issues CBAM guidance for iron and steel, clarifying how to calculate and report embedded emissions for 2026.

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