Tata Steel Packaging in IJmuiden produces high quality packaging-steel with specific finishes for applications like food and drink cans, paint tins, aerosols, luxury packaging and more. The manufacturing process is managed by bespoke software systems which are developed and maintained by a small number of in-house teams. The team's responsibilities are broad and versatile, but one thing is key: preventing production stoppage!
As a member of the Java team our developers helped with implementing new and adapting existing features to support manufacturing. Besides that, our team was also involved with modernizing the software itself as well as the CI- and runtime environments. Along the way we introduced new ideas and technologies in areas like testing, system observability and software engineering.