Liberty Ostrava

Liberty Ostrava (formerly ArcelorMittal Ostrava) is a steel manufacturing company located in the Czech Republic. Liberty Ostrava is a complete industrial plant, creating and running everything required in the steel manufacturing process, from the power needed to run the plant to milling and refining. Its extensive facilities include a coke plant, blast furnaces, steel casting plant, various kinds of steel mills, power plants, laboratories, and foundries. Despite the complexity of its data needs, its disparate systems were disconnected. “Unfortunately in the past, each plant developed their own system. So you can find several applications, in several different environments, run on several different kinds of hardware. It was a mishmash,” said Radim Lužný, Head of MES at Liberty Ostrava, during PI World Gothenburg 2019. “My task since 2015 was to unify the system as much as possible.”