ISO 21763:2026

ISO 21763:2026 / Guidelines for smart manufacturing in the iron and steel industry

ID 26825 | 05 Agosto 2026 / Preview attached

ISO 21763:2026
Guidelines for smart manufacturing in the iron and steel industry
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Introduction

Smart manufacturing technologies have been playing increasingly pivotal roles across diverse industrial sectors and daily life. In 2021, ISO released the "White Paper on Smart Manufacturing Standardization", which defines smart manufacturing as the 4th industrial revolution. This foundational document delineates strategic pathways for deploying smart technologies across multifarious industrial domains, while establishing forward-looking standardization frameworks to guide technological convergence and innovation trajectories over the next decade.

The iron and steel industry is one of the most critical industrial sectors. With the rapid development of global smart manufacturing technologies, how new smart manufacturing technologies can be applied to the iron and steel industry to improve production efficiency, enhance product quality, reduce production costs, and ensure employee safety has become a topic of common concern.

Enhancers and enablers, as outlined in the ISO Smart Manufacturing Coordinating Committee (SMCC) "The White Papers on Smart Manufacturing", are the basic requirements for achieving smart manufacturing in the iron and steel industry. During production, using advanced algorithms, smart equipment, smart systems, and other smart manufacturing technologies can be effective to reduce production costs, stable product quality, worker’s safety, and the climate actions, which are important for every iron and steel enterprise. While numerous iron and steel enterprises have initiated strategic adoption of smart manufacturing systems, the operational frameworks for integrating these technologies into metallurgical processes remain underdeveloped. Therefore, it is useful to provide guidelines for the application of smart manufacturing technologies, which gives the outlines and common requirements for their implementation in the iron and steel industry.

This document aims to support the promotion of smart manufacturing to upgrade steel plants and to guide the development of the iron and steel industry by improving work environments, worker safety, and well-being, as well as reducing carbon footprints. As a result, it contributes, directly or indirectly, to the UN Sustainable Development Goals”.

1 Scope

This document specifies guidelines for smart manufacturing technologies applicable to smart plants in the iron and steel industry, together with the basic requirements for these technologies as defined in the application guidelines.

This document covers three dimensions related to the steel production process:

- smart production process design,
- smart equipment, and
- smart production.

This document provides an overview of the potential applications of smart manufacturing technology in these scenarios, as well as the specific technical requirements it needs to meet.

This document provides reference guidelines for the iron and steel industry to formulate smart factory upgrading plans to improve productivity and product quality. It is intended for use by iron and steel manufacturing enterprises, smart manufacturing technology vendors, and relevant public sector organizations, and is applicable to steel plants regardless of manufacturing process route, equipment configuration, plant size, geographic location, or product type.

This document is not intended to be used for any form of evaluation or grading of steel plants or companies.
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