SIS 2025

Opening Session
Session Chair: Fritz Lücking, TEMA Technologie Marketing AG | Consultant (Germany)

Room 1: Welcome
Fritz Lücking, TEMA Technologie Marketing AG | Consultant (Germany)

Room 1: From Impossible to Indispensable: The Evolution of Surface Inspection in Flat Metal Production
Dominik Recker, ISRA VISION GmbH | Manager Business Unit Metals (Germany)

Room 1: Beyond the Hype about AI in Steel Industry - A Survey of Real Success Stories
Carsten Andreas Klein, SMS group GmbH | Head of Integrated Planning, Process and Product Optimization (Germany)

Coffee Break

Session 1 / AI in Quality Management
Nicolas Pipard, Tata Steel Europe | Data Scientist (The Netherlands)
Room 1

Session 2 / Trends in Surface Inspection - Part I
Jens Brandenburger, VDEh-Betriebsforschungsinstitut | Senior Expert (Germany)
Room 2

Room 1: Beyond Accuracy: Augmenting Human-AI Collaboration in Quality Control
Antonia Weirich, Ruhr-University Bochum | Research Assistant (Germany)

Room 2: High-Speed Computational Imaging for Continuous Surface Inspection
Michael Stelzl, MSTVision GmbH | Managing Director (Germany)

Room 1: A Modular Edge AI Framework for Industrial Visual Quality Inspection Systems
Nikolaos Matskanis, CETIC | Senior Project Manager (Belgium)

Room 2: Innovative optical measurement technologies from the lab to industrial inline-application
Andreas Hofmann, Fraunhofer Institute for Physical Measurement Techniques | Business Development Manager (Germany)

Room 1: AI-Based Automatic Detection and Classification of Defects Using Multi-Source Images
Silvano Balemi, Zumbach Electronic AG | CTO (Switzerland)

Room 2: Inline Slab Surface Inspection System at ArcelorMittal Eisenhüttenstadt Reliably Detects And Classifies Surface Defects Directly After Deburring
Giovanni Campa, Smart Steel Technologies GmbH | Machine Learning Expert (Germany)

Room 1: From static models to continuous learning: VisualMLOps for human-centric AI in steel surface inspection
Pablo Galan Saiz, Fundacion Tecnalia Research and Innovation | Researcher (Spain)

Room 2: Tracking Defect Evolution from Slab to Cold Rolled Coil at ArcelorMittal Eisenhüttenstadt
Chintan Zaveri, Smart Steel Technologies GmbH | Machine Learning Expert (Germany)

Lunch Break

Room 1: Vendor Workshops
AMETEK Surface Vision - Going beyond hardware limitations
CLECIM Workshop
ISRA VISION Workshop

Coffee Break

Session 3 / 100^th AMAP Kolloquium - Aluminium Special
Session Chair: Uwe Knaak, AMAP GmbH | Managing Director (Germany)
Room 1

Room 1: Introduction
Uwe Knaak, AMAP GmbH | Managing Director (Germany)

Room 1: Implementation of an SIS into an aluminium ingot scalper
Stefan Lukaschewski, Aluminium Norf GmbH | Process Engineer (Germany)

Room 1: Long-term experience with surface inspection in surface-sensitive aluminum products
Kai Olav Runkel, Speira GmbH | Head of Central Service QA (Germany)

Room 1: From Manual to Machine: Improving Surface Quality Control in Aluminium Extrusion
Dominik Recker, ISRA VISION GmbH | Manager Business Unit Metals (Germany)

Room 1: Improving Surface Quality in Aluminum Production High-Resolution Video-Based Inspection
Dale Bennett, Bridgnorth Aluminium Ltd | Senior Process Engineer (UK)
Marco Saitta, AMETEK Surface Vision | Sales Engineer (Germany)

Evening Event in the Exhibition Area

Session 4 / Digital Transformation
Julien Langlois, ArcelorMittal (France)
Room 1

Session 5 / Long Products
Fritz Lücking, TEMA Technologie Marketing AG | Consultant (Germany)
Room 2

Room 1: Transforming Surface Inspection: A New Paradigm in Coil Map Analysis
Alfredo Davila Villalobos, QuinLogic GmbH | Technical Sales (Germany)

Room 2: Next level 3D inspection of long and flat steel products: Pushing the limits with WARP, NBASE-T and high-power lasers
Athinodoros Klipfel, AT Sensors | Head of Sales (Germany)

Room 1: Correlated Visualization of Process and Quality Data by Advanced Genealogy and Time-to-Length Transformation
Amirabbas Taherian, QuinLogic GmbH (Germany)

Room 2: Making Space for Quality: Integrated Inspection in Tight Mill Environments
Thomas Köpsel, IMS Messsysteme GmbH | Sales Manager (Germany)

Room 1: ACRA - Auto Coil Release Assistant
Eva Kesisoglou, D-Cube Private Company | Chief AI Officer (Greece)

Room 2: Optical Surface Inspection for Long and Profiled Metal Products: Applications and Process Enhancement
Jürgen Philipps, Pixargus GmbH | Managing Director (Germany)

Room 1: Looking Ahead: Smarter Inspection Systems for Higher Quality Standards
Muhammad Waseem Tahir, ISRA VISION GmbH | Senior Machine Learning Scientist (Germany)

Room 2: Inspection of Rail Wheels with Ultrasound Machines - Trends in AI Assist, new Sensor Technology, and Robotics
Frank Kahmann, Baker Hughes Digital Solutions GmbH | Senior Product Manager and Principal Engineer (Germany)

Room 1: Beyond the Human Eye: How AI-Driven Vision Systems Redefine Surface Quality Inspection in Metal Processing
Sam Holdenried, elunic AG | Account Executive (Germany)

Room 2: Rolling Contact Fatigue
Johannes Waechter, RWTH Aachen University | Research fellow (Germany)

Lunch Break

AI Panel: Super Performance ASIS?!
Room 1

Moderator: Ingo Elsen, University of Applied Science Aachen | Big Data Lab

Panel:
Jens Brandenburger, VDEh-Betriebsforschungsinstitut | Senior Expert (Germany)
Dominik Recker, ISRA VISION GmbH | Manager Business Unit Metals (Germany)
Michael Krätzner, Salzgitter Flachstahl GmbH | Senior Specialist Surface Inspection Systems (Germany)

Session 6 / Trends in Surface Inspection - Part II
François Levac, AMETEK Surface Vision | Americas & EMEA Business Director (Canada)
Room 1

Session 7 / Use Cases
Silvano Balemi, Zumbach Electronic AG | CTO (Swiss)
Room 2

Room 1: Can a SWIR channel help for a reliable and dedicated
recognition of (residues of) water?
Michael Krätzner, Salzgitter Flachstahl GmbH | Senior Specialist (Germany)
Laurent Dorel, Clecim S.A.S. | Product owner SIAS (France)

Room 2: Optical, material independent strip thickness measurement in process and finishing lines
Erik Zimmermann, KELK (VPG) | Research & Development Manager (Germany)

Room 1: 100% Surface and Coating Inspection with Hyperspectral Imaging
Gerhard Stanzel, Specim, Spectral Imaging Ltd. | Application Specialist (Germany)

Room 2: Industrial computer vision system for automated detection of Hot Strip Mill tail defects
Nicolas Pipard, Tata Steel Europe | Data Scientist (The Netherlands)

Room 1: The Fairy Tale of Automated Defect Detection and Classification from the First Day on: A bold and long lasting wish that even the fairies from the sales departments could not make to come true
Florian Jaworeck, Johannes Höhne, Dr. Schenk GmbH
| Product Manager (Germany)

Room 2: With ASIS data towards zero-defect manufacturing
Jens Brandenburger, VDEh-Betriebsforschungsinstitut
| Senior Expert (Germany)

Closing Remarks
Fritz Lücking, TEMA Technologie Marketing AG | Consultant (Germany)

Guided Tour
Experience the Future of Battery Cell Production – PEM pilot facilities at RWTH Aachen University