The Metris Performance Center is an impressive milestone for ANDRITZ in the area of digitalization and Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) solutions. Tissue, paper, and board mills are able to benefit from individual and fast customer service by using the ANDRITZ Metris platform for the optimization of production processes, operator trouble shooting and decision support.

As part of ANDRITZ Digital Solutions, the Metris Smart Service initiative focuses on the optimization and digitalization of internal and external business processes at ANDRITZ.

Digitalization is transforming the global economy at incredible speed and with amazing intensity. For manufacturers, this spells an opportunity to take advantage of numerous benefits – including shorter order fulfilment cycles, more sustainable production processes, higher product quality and lower costs. Yet with great opportunity comes great risk. As operational networks became more digitized, they also became more exposed to cyber threats and to cyber criminals who increasingly target them. Back in 2017, ANDRITZ understood that in order to ensure the future of digital manufacturing, all factories would have to be effectively secured from cyberattacks. At the time, there was no industry-native cybersecurity solution available on the market. This meant that the only way to protect digital networks was to use retrofitted IT tools. These tools however, were (and still are) unfit to meet factory-specific cyber security requirements. The market, therefore, was ripe for a different paradigm.

Metris Optimization of Process Performance (OPP) is a service contract that has been proven to improve the performance of a variety of production plants.