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According to the news base of Madan Nameh, therefore, it is necessary that in the upcoming horizon of the steel industry and for its resilience, companies upgrade production line technologies in order to increase productivity and reduce production costs, and from another perspective, by developing their products and producing higher value-added products, be able to produce products competitive in domestic and foreign markets. In this difficult path, many of these goals can be achieved by focusing on internal and external organizational research and innovation.
Regarding technology development, it can also be said that the role of external research and innovation will be very effective. In this regard, fortunately, over recent years the existing knowledge in the country’s innovation ecosystem has been properly utilized and investments have been made in this area, creating good capacities; therefore, by facilitating internal processes in steel companies, these capacities can be well utilized. Also, the development and establishment of committees and venture capital funds will greatly help this matter.
About the knowledge of steel product development and new product production, it can perhaps be stated with certainty that universities and research centers have not aligned with steel companies or simply put, strong academic research and even focused laboratories and research infrastructures have not been established in this field. Although there are good knowledge capacities and laboratories in universities, they do not operate in the path of designing and developing steel products.
Achieving a respectable position for the steel industry among the world’s largest in this industry requires that the research and development units of steel companies, in cooperation and targeting universities starting with basic research and its development, and equipping collaborating laboratories in universities, guide research centers in this field. Defining theses, joint research projects, training specialized human resources, and even creating a major or majors in steel product design at university levels will be very influential in this important goal.
Hormozgan Steel Company, by defining a correct strategy in this field and by developing its technology and innovation ecosystem and establishing an internal company technology and innovation committee, has facilitated and shortened the processes for evaluating ideas and knowledge-based products. This company is in the process of creating specialized innovation centers for developing new products and by starting investment in basic and complementary knowledge, plans to achieve new product design, which has also been included in the company’s short and long-term strategies. Developing the company’s technology and innovation ecosystem at the national level and cooperating with sanctified and national research centers are other actions of this company in this important field.
Defining joint projects and utilizing the expertise and knowledge of company colleagues who have long worked in this area will also be of great importance in achieving this strategy.