Adequacy of cold rolling models to upgrade set-up generation systems

Abstract

This paper presents two strategies for the upgrade of set-up generation systems for tandem cold mills. Even though these mills have been modernized mainly due to quality requests, their upgrades may bema de intending to replace pre-calculated reference tables. In this case, Bryant and Osborn mill model with-out adaptive technique is proposed. As a more demanding modernization, Bland and Ford model including adaptation is recommended, although it requires a more complex computational hardware. Advantages and disadvantages of these two systems are compared and discussed and experimental results obtained fro man industrial cold mill are shown.