There are three main issues with using RFID in the steel industry. The first is that, when tagging anything made of metal, you need to use a special RFID
Here is a Whitepaper I wrote way back in 2011 for the the Steel Industry. The industry has only started capitalizing on the RFID Technology for Inventory
The industrial IoT (IIoT) is referred to Industry 4.0 [2] . Inventory management of a steel mill warehouse and tracking its already dispatched products
Manufacturing and logistics industries have sought a low-cost way to tag metal assets. This new RFID is poised to change the way metal asset control is done