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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.

Your Spreadsheets Are Not a Database (So Stop Pretending They Are).

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

Stop typing mill certs and chasing broken XLSX files. Learn how databases and AI kill manual errors, cut scrap and restore real-time traceability.

Energy costs threaten UK's manufacturing sector competitiveness

  • Steph Locke
  • Blog
  • Feb 23, 2026
  • Updated

CBI and Energy UK warn high business energy costs risk UK deindustrialisation; 40% of firms cut investment.

Fire safety failings identified at Hinkley Point C by regulators

  • Steph Locke
  • Blog
  • Feb 23, 2026
  • Updated

ONR serves fire enforcement notices to five contractors at Hinkley Point C after inspectors found significant fire-safety failings.

How Energy Design Makes Sustainability Profitable

  • Steph Locke
  • Blog
  • Feb 23, 2026
  • Updated

Discover how energy design transforms grid constraints into opportunities for innovation and profitable sustainability strategies.

AI Capacity Planning for Metals Factories

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

Stop typing mill certs and wrestling 2005 ERPs — AI automates admin, slashes scrap and downtime, and fixes capacity planning.

The Middle East is getting serious about steel education

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

Metal Park and the World Steel Association are building a real talent pipeline in the Middle East — and they’re not messing about.

Norwegian Green Steel Group In the Running to Buy Collapsed UK Producer

  • Ruth Kearney
  • Blog
  • Feb 20, 2026
  • Updated

Blastr wants to pick up Speciality Steels UK’s bones — and maybe move its HQ to Britain in the process.

How to Mature Sustainability in Manufacturing

  • Ruth Kearney
  • Blog
  • Feb 20, 2026
  • Updated

Learn how manufacturing can embrace sustainability, reduce costs, and meet regulatory demands with insights from Dr. Kevin Douly.

You Didn’t Become an Engineer to Read PDFs All Day

  • Ruth Kearney
  • Blog
  • Feb 19, 2026
  • Updated

Stop wasting hours on manual mill-certificate work and legacy 2005 tech. GoSmarter’s AI extracts mill cert data in seconds so engineers can engineer.

British Steel secures agreement to supply 36,000 tonnes of rail for Turkish high-speed project

  • Steph Locke
  • Blog
  • Feb 18, 2026
  • Updated

British Steel to supply 36,000 tonnes of 60E2 rail for the Ankara–İzmir high-speed line, backed by UK Export Finance.

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