The aim of the project was the reduction of shape defects and yield losses in heavy plate rolling by providing new operating strategies, ski-end control and optimised set-up adaptation for ski and control for camber/thickness profile. This approach encompasses the application of the new...

The claim to produce flat products in hot strip rolling lines strictly tailored to the demands of next step processes and final customers has been tackled for a long time only in terms of enhanced local flatness of the strip in the line. Thus the core aim of the project is the development of a...

Nowadays the flatness performance of plate manufacturing lines is still tackled in terms of enhanced local flatness of the plates in the line. The aims of this project had been to optimise local flatness approaches and to progress from this basis by taking the flatness requirements of the...