ArcelorMittal has announced a strategic collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to accelerate industrial automation across its global operations using advanced cloud, artificial intelligence, and edge technologies.
The partnership will bring AWS cloud and machine learning capabilities directly to the plant floor, allowing ArcelorMittal to converge its operational technology (OT) and information technology (IT) onto a secure, scalable platform. By deploying AI at the point of production across sites in 14 countries, the steelmaker aims to enhance safety, improve asset reliability, and boost energy efficiency through predictive maintenance, computer-vision quality control, and digital twins of physical production lines. To support this digital transformation, AWS will also design and deliver a comprehensive education programme for ArcelorMittal’s global workforce.
In tandem with the technology agreement, Amazon has signed a multi-year Supply Framework Agreement to source structural steel from ArcelorMittal for its operations facilities and AWS data centres across Europe and the United Kingdom. ArcelorMittal will supply its lower-carbon XCarb® steel, supporting Amazon’s target to reach net-zero carbon by 2040 and reflecting a mutual commitment to decarbonise large-scale construction.
Nik Puri, Group CIO & CISO at ArcelorMittal, described the plant floor as the next frontier for digital transformation in steelmaking, noting that connecting assets on a single secure platform will create plants that sense, learn, and optimise in real time. Tanuja Randery, Managing Director and Vice President, EMEA at AWS, added that bringing AI to the point of production creates safer, more efficient operations built for industrial scale.
