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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.
£70m, 120,000 Tonnes, and Scunthorpe Back in Full Swing
- Ruth Kearney
- Blog
- Mar 19, 2026
- Updated
British Steel just signed the biggest billet order in company history. Production at Scunthorpe is increasing. If you’re in UK steel manufacturing, this signals something worth paying attention to.
UK doubles steel tariffs to 50% — what manufacturers must do before July
UK doubles tariffs on imported steel to 50% and slashes quotas. Here’s exactly which products take the hit — and what manufacturers need to do before July.
Audit Panic is Optional: How to Stop Freaking Out Over Lost Certs.
- Ruth Kearney
- Blog
- Mar 19, 2026
- Updated
Stop typing mill certs and hunting filing cabinets — kill 1985 tech. See how AI extracts heat numbers, auto-links certs to stock and ends audit panic.
BS EN 1090 and NSSS Compliance: Stop Drowning in Structural Steel Paperwork
BS EN 1090 and the National Structural Steelwork Specification require traceable, auditable mill certificate records. Manual management means compliance risk. GoSmarter fixes that.
You Wouldn't Worry About the Price of a Pint if Your Margins Were Better.
- Ruth Kearney
- Blog
- Mar 18, 2026
- Updated
Stop burning material and hours on 1985 tech and spreadsheets — AI cuts scrap, slashes energy bills and stops downtime dead. GoSmarter.
GoSmarter vs Excel for Metals Inventory Management
Excel is the default tool for metals inventory, but it was not built for steel. GoSmarter was. Here is where each one wins and when it makes sense to use both.
Stop Running Your Factory Like It's 1985: The No-BS Guide to AI for Metals
- Steph Locke
- Blog
- Mar 17, 2026
- Updated
AI for metals isn’t about robots taking your job. It’s about stopping the manual drudgery that’s killing your margins. Here’s the no-BS guide.
Rebar Quotation Is Eating Your Week. AI Fixes That.
Rebar quotation is one of the most time-consuming, error-prone jobs in a rebar merchant or fabricator’s day. Here’s how AI rebar systems change that — and what to look for in one.
Your Scrap Rate Is Costing You Twice. Here's How to Calculate It.
Learn exactly how to calculate scrap rate using the standard formula, work through real production examples in actual £ figures, and find out what a good target scrap rate looks like for metals manufacturing.
They Go Home to Nest Cameras. They Come to Work and Time-Travel.
- Ruth Kearney
- Blog
- Mar 13, 2026
- Updated
Your team uses Nest thermostats and Ring cameras every night. Then they clock in and feel like it’s 2005. Here’s why that gap is costing you more than you think and what to do about it.
Categories
Tags
- Artificial Intelligence
- Automation
- Cloud Technology
- Compliance
- Continuous Improvement
- Cutting Optimisation
- Data Strategy
- Digital Transformation
- Energy Management
- Glossary
- Inventory Management
- Inventory Management for Metals
- Ireland
- Manufacturing
- Metals
- Nightingale HQ and GoSmarter
- Procurement
- Production Planning
- Quality
- Research & Innovation
- Shape Code Technology
- Small & Medium Enterprises
- Steel Industry
- Supply Chain
- Sustainability
- Steel Tariffs
- Traceability
- Trade & International Steel
- Wales
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.
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