Digital Transformation Consultant andME Consultancy Founder
Murat Erdör
Since digital transformation is the most talked about topic in today’s business world, the unions and associations that each sector is affiliated are working on this subject, organizing relevant trainings for the companies within their organization and trying to support how they will adapt to it. Since the cement sector has come to the forefront due to the high growth of the construction industry in our country in recent years, digitalization has become inevitable here and has begun to keep up with the new way of doing business for companies. Although solutions such as alternative fuel and raw material use come to the fore as the fuel and energy costs are large in the total cost, it is thought that raw material and energy will be saved and efficiency will increase thanks to digitalization.
In addition to the energy efficiency that stands out, high quality and eco-balance have also gained importance recently. Now every stage of the construction process is examined for sustainability, which includes building materials and their components, including cement. There is a great saving potential in energy intensive industrial sectors such as cement production. The optimized production process leads to efficiency in fuel consumption and other issues, and the energy savings here can produce energy for 100 thousands of households. Thanks to the digitization of certain stages, carbon emissions of cement production may also tend to decrease.
In many branches of the industry, the Internet of Things (IoT) is seen as the pioneer of a revolution in production, thanks to the smarter operation with IoT, many manufacturing companies are getting more productive results and growing faster. Firstly, ensuring a continuous data flow during the design phase allows feasibility without real product output, engineering efforts that require a lot of effort are eliminated thanks to interconnected data and an automation is created. Therefore, integrated data can be used as a data source for future facility maintenance management. In the cement industry, the digitalization journey begins with automation and analyzes all data and acts as a brain. In short, digitization is only possible with a robust automation solution.
At this stage, if the industry’s leading companies want to take action on the subject, they should contact the IT companies that are working on this in the market and get information about how the operation should be. Generally, the biggest mistake is the prediction that the transactions will work completely only when the budget of the work is met, but unfortunately things do not progress so easily. What is important here is that top management supports this issue, encourages its employees to participate in trainings on these issues and keep their visions open. Transformation is not just the best technology, it is actually a change that starts in the brain. It is not an easy thing to survive in the business world where competition is so high and variables are numerous. In order to become sustainable businesses, it is necessary to closely follow the issues related to digitalization, to get an idea of how costs can be reduced, to give importance to automation, and to know how to do a lot of work with machines in a short time.
It is important to survive Covid -19, which may be once in a century, with minimal damage, but more importantly, it is much more important to be online in every subject in the next 18 months. Therefore, you should start the necessary studies in advance, if necessary, you should get a consultancy on this subject. In the upcoming period, if you do not take steps towards digitization, you may have a hard time, so start doing what you need today without thinking about this opportunity and make sure you will be profitable at the end of the day.