Every big buyer we speak with in 2017 is talking about traceability by heat and lot, digital transfer of test certificates, and eventually machine-readable spec data.
We are not writing white papers about Industry 4.0 — we are quietly upgrading our own systems so a customer can pull an EN 10204 3.1 PDF within an hour of the coil clearing our warehouse.
Industry 4.0 conversations start on the Turkish shop floor. Traceability by heat number and lot number is a customer demand, not a nice-to-have.