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Cold rolling is the definitive precision finishing stage in copper production, where the material achieves its final gauge, mechanical strength, and critical surface properties.
This process involves special mill types:
- 4-Hi Rolling Mills for initial thickness reduction
- 6-Hi Rolling Mills for intermediate and finish rolling, offering enhanced flatness control capabilities
- 20-Hi Sendzimir Mills for producing ultra-thin, high-precision strip
Through cold rolling, precise dimensional tolerances, superior surface quality, and tailored work-hardening properties are achieved to meet demanding application requirements.
It is through cold rolling that copper attains the precise electrical conductivity, formability, and durability required for high-performance applications in electronics, telecommunications, and precision engineering—transforming it from a semi-finished commodity into a high-value engineered material.
Metals-Tech provides state-of-the-art electrical and automation solutions for the entire range of copper cold rolling mills, from 4-Hi and 6-Hi configurations to precision 20-Hi Sendzimir mills. Our systems ensure exceptional control over strip profile, surface finish, thickness tolerance, and tension stability across the rolling process. These capabilities are powered by high-performance process models that integrate deep rolling metallurgy knowledge, enabling predictive optimization of rolling schedules, material behavior, and final properties. This ensures the production of premium copper strips and foils that meet the most demanding specifications for conductivity, strength, and dimensional accuracy.
Metals-Tech provides comprehensive electrics and automation solutions specifically for cold rolling mills, covering the complete spectrum from Level 0 field instrumentation to Level 2 process control, private cloud, single plant digital system and integrated digital platform for the whole production complex. Our advanced mathematical models, which are intrinsically linked to deep process know-how, play a decisive role. These models work in close coordination with Level 1 automation systems to precisely control key parameters such as rolling force and tension, ensuring fully automated, stable production of high-quality copper strips and foils.
At the same time, highly automated electrical systems, coupled with sophisticated process control technologies and digital systems, provide a perfect technical foundation for reducing operator quantity, enabling intelligent maintenance, enhancing the performance of existing equipment, improving production yield, lowering production costs, facilitating new product development, and supporting mass production while at the same time meeting market demands for small batches and diversified specifications.
Scope of Supply:
1. Hardware Equipment:
- Level 0
- Power Distribution
- Motors
- Drive Systems
- Motor Control Center (MCC)
- Process Measurement Instruments (Thickness Gauge, Flatness Gauge, Tensiometer, Laser Speed Measurement, etc.)
- Field Sensors
- Computer Systems
- Private Cloud Configuration
- Or Conventional Computer Configuration
- Level 1 / Level 2 Hardware
- Main / Auxiliary Operation Desks or Centralized Control Pulpits
- IT Components
2. Application Software Functions:
- Level 1 Basic Automation
- Basic Automation
- Mill Master Control
- Sequence Control (Automatic Coil Uploading/Unloading, Automatic Threading, Automatic Roll Change, etc.)
- Coil Transportation (Coil Cars, Pallets, Shuttle Cars, etc.)
- Material Tracking (Coil Tracking / Strip Head and Tail Tracking)
- Media Control
- Peripheral Device Interfaces
- Process Control
- Drive Control
- Mill Stand Control
- Automatic Gauge Control (AGC)
- Target Thickness Control
- Feedforward Control
- Feedback Control
- Mass Flow Control
- Speed & Tension Optimization Control
- Rolling Efficiency Control
- Roll Eccentricity Compensation
- Mandrel Eccentricity Compensation
- Off-gauge Optimization
- …
- Automatic Flatness Control (AFC)
- Tilting Control
- Roll Bending Control
- Roll Shifting Control (UCM, CVC, etc.)
- Multi-Zone Cooling
- Roll Bending Feedforward Compensation
- Dynamic Target Curve Compensation
- Elongation Control (Skin Pass Mode)
- Human-Machine Interface (HMI)
- Plant Overview Page
- Main Pages of Rolling Operation
- Auxiliary Control Screens
- Drive Control
- Media Control
- System Monitoring, Diagnostics, and Alarm Systems
- Basic Automation
- Level 2 Process Automation:
- Production Management
- Material Tracking
- Report System
- As-rolled Coil Reports
- Production Reports (Shift Reports / Daily Reports / Weekly Reports / Tailored Time-Period Reports)
- Automatic Recap of Incoming Material Data
- Report Query and Statistics
- Pass Schedule Setup System
- Pass Schedule Distribution Setup
- Roll Gap Model
- Roll Flattening Model
- Material Model
- Motor Torque, Utilization, and Power Calculation
- Strip Temperature Model
- Profile and Flatness Setup
- Work Roll Temperature Model
- Material Flow Model
- Roll Deformation Model
- Roll Gap Model
- Model Self-Learning / Adaptation
- Pass Schedule Distribution Setup
- Roll Management
- Downtime Management
- Logs
- Level 1 / MES System Interface
- Integration Test (Simulation tests before shipment to ensure plug-and-play commissioning on site, customer training)
- Single Plant Digitalization
- Analysis and Visualization of Plant and Product Performance
- Condition Monitoring and Diagnosis of Equipment, Product Quality, and Energy Consumption
- Recommendations and Optimization of Operating Conditions for Enhanced Performance
- New Product Development Support
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