Hot Mill Steering Expert

The Hot Mill Steering Expert is an advanced strip steering control for hot strip mills, designed to enhance precision and efficiency in the finishing mill area. This innovative system integrates seamlessly into existing mill operations, providing a compact and efficient solution. It enhances strip guidance and minimizes disruptions. By utilizing pioneering technology, the Hot Mill Steering Expert ensures optimal strip alignment, leading to increased yield and achieving plant stability. This makes the Hot Mill Steering Expert an essential tool for steel producers aiming for superior quality and operational efficiency.

The Hot Mill Steering Expert is an outstanding solution for controlling strip steering in hot strip mills, notable for its sophisticated features and reliable performance. It includes key features such as strip threading control, strip guidance control and strip tail-out control. All of which are essential for maintaining precise strip alignment throughout the rolling process. The system uses ShapeMon Camera Systems to detect lateral strip movement, providing real-time data to the control system for accurate adjustments.

This threading control for hot strip mills utilizes model predictive control to generate commands for leveling work rolls. It ensures the strip head aligns with the centerline during threading. The intelligent algorithms used in the Hot Mill Steering Expert minimize disturbances of the strip shape, enhancing overall product quality. Additionally, the strip guidance control maintains a straight strip behind the finishing mill. This is verified by width gauges, ensuring consistent production standards.

Benefits of the Hot Strip Mill Steering Expert

• Improved product quality: enhance strip alignment and reduces lateral deviations
• Increasing yield and output by reducing material losses and rework

• Increasing production stability and reducing interruptions trough automatic strip threading and tailout

• Minimize disturbances to strip shape, ensuring superior production standards

• Superior production standards through minimized disturbances to the strip shape
• Flexible operation across different setups: adapting to various mill configurations

Features of the Hot Strip Mill Steering Expert

• Strip threading control ensures smooth guidance into the next stand.
• Strip guidance control maintains straight strip alignment behind the finishing mill.
• Strip tailout control minimizes tail-end-pinching.
• ShapeMon camera systems are utilized for precise detection of lateral movement.
• Strip alignment by reduced lateral deviations by with automatic leveling
• Adapts to various mill configurations allowing for flexible operation across different setups
• Wedge minimization achieves improved strip wedge tolerances through transverse displacement.
• Retrofittable to existing plants