The strategy includes a progressive addition of e-commerce models as well as a cultural change to an integral and collaborative work environment.

"Materials Services Online-Portal" grants access to order documents, among others, for key accounts.

[7] On the website "onlinelaserworks" customers can upload CAD drawings to have blanks fully automatically cut to size.

[7] At the Hannover trade fair thyssenkrupp announced the opening of a production center for Additive Manufacturing (3D-printing) in the city Mülheim in 2017.

[8] In 2017, Materials Services also announced the self-developed platform "toii" in line with the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT).