Blog Posts
Forged in Change: The Rise of Women in Steel
The steel industry, long defined by its rugged, traditional image, is facing a reality it can no longer ignore: it has spent decades shutting women out. Branded as a man’s world of blast furnaces, hard hats, and boardrooms dominated by the same voices, steel has...
Technology, Data and Sustainability: Two Days of International Meeting at Fonderia di Torbole for the ALCHIMIA Project
On June 25–26, we had the honor of hosting the Genaral Assembly of the European ALCHIMIA project at Fonderia di Torbole: a valuable opportunity for discussion, collaboration, and a shared vision among consortium partners committed to developing advanced solutions for...
Standardization & Interoperability: The Next Step for Industrial AI Platforms
As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes a core enabler in industrial innovation, a new challenge arises: how do we ensure different systems, data formats, and platforms can actually work together? For projects like ALCHIMIA, where multiple industrial partners,...
Why Data Transformation Matters in AI and ALCHIMIA
When it comes to AI and machine learning, often the focus is on the models and algorithms. But the models and algorithms only work well if the data they use is clean and consistent. This is why data transformation is crucial for ensuring models are trained and perform...
ALCHIMIA Project’s Ex-Post Human-Centric Research and the ALTAI Assessment
By Rachel Hale, Dean Stroud, Martin Weinel and Vinicio Di Iorio Our social science research team is entering the final phase of its work. Building on early findings from the ex-ante stage, the current ex-post research focuses on how ALCHIMIA’s technologies are...
ALCHIMIA Project: The Artificial Intelligence Accelerating Fonderia di Torbole’s Green and Digital Transition
The efficient use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become essential to successfully tackling the dual challenge of green and digital transformation in heavy industry. AI is emerging as one of the strategic assets for companies like ours, determined to remain...
Smarter AI for Industry: ALCHIMIA Advances Its Federated Learning Framework
How can Artificial Intelligence adapt to the real-world complexity of industrial manufacturing? Within the ALCHIMIA research project, Atos has been tackling this challenge head-on by developing a custom Federated Learning (FL) framework. Now, with the delivery of the...
The European Commission’s Steel and Metals Action Plan: Progress and Remaining Challenges
The European Commission has unveiled its Steel and Metals Action Plan, an ambitious strategy aimed at safeguarding the competitiveness of Europe’s steel sector while preparing for its transition toward sustainability. By comparing this plan against investor priorities...
Divide et impera
By Irene García, Celsa Group The phrase 'divide and conquer' is commonly attributed to Julius Caesar in relation to his strategy for expanding the Roman Empire. Despite its clearly warlike origins, it has a project management-oriented context here. In fact, if we were...
Pilenga Baldassarre Foundry Joins the ALCHIMIA Project for a Greener Future
Technological innovation and industrial sustainability take another step forward with Pilenga Baldassarre Foundry joining the European ALCHIMIA project. Following the lead of Fonderia di Torbole, actively involved from the start, the affiliated foundry is now adopting...