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SIROLL CM Solutions For Cold Rolling Mills en
Metals Technologies
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The demand for cold rolled steel continues to grow, and at the same time
requirements for product quality, mill productivity, availability and reliability
are increasing.
You expect
Leading process technology
High rolling speed and flexible
production
Complete and individual solutions that
accommodate the increasing quality
requirements for cold rolled products
Technologies that allow high-quality
products
Future safe investment by expandable
solutions
Low operating costs thanks to high
plant availability
Your challenge:
Increasing requirements for
plant productivity and quality
of rolled products
Increasing productivity
at high plant availability
Plant operators will have to continue
optimizing consumption parameters in
the future to achieve capacity increases
and quality improvements with
decreasing operating costs. This is the
only way for them to strengthen their
market performance over the long term.
Requirements for product quality are
continually growing in terms of
dimensional accuracy, flatness,
mechanical properties and surface
quality. Especially in the automotive
branch, increasingly higher steel quality
is in demand. If producers are to succeed
in this market, they have to use the most
modern technologies and develop totally
new types of steel grades.
In the future, the degree of automation
will ensure process reliability and lowmaintenance operation
The tolerance limits for cold rolled steel
are in the range of a thousandth of a
millimeter. The perfect coordination of
process parameters is decisive for
market success. The more precisely you
meet the requirements of your customers
with your expertise and your products,
the more you can improve your market
position. We invite you to work together
with us in meeting these challenges.
Our solution:
Trendsetting technologies for
cold rolling mills
Innovative technologies
The name Siemens VAI stands for a
permanent leadership in innovation.
Siemens VAI combines the traditions of
four successful companies: Clecim, Davy,
VAI and Siemens. All have achieved
remarkable developments in the field of
cold rolling technology. Many of these
achievements, which have now been
combined, were developed or introduced
with leading steel producers around the
world. The complementary solutions and
skills as well as the additional
contributions from our long lasting
cooperation with institutes and
universities lead to further advances in
cold rolling technology. We are also well
prepared to develop new mechatronic
solutions for even higher productivity and
quality targets. We look forward to
applying our innovative strength to the
optimization of your plant as well.
Life-cycle partnership
As life-cycle partner for steel producers
Siemens VAI offers the complete range of
products and services necessary for new
investments and modernization from
preliminary studies, site inspections and
feasibility studies up to and including
commissioning the new mill or the
modernized equipment. Your mill
operation can only benefit from service
and maintenance contracts with
Siemens VAI.
As a globally active full-liner, we possess expertise that is unique in the entire steel
production industry. Backed by this extensive experience, we completely focus
on process optimization for cold rolling mills starting with individual plant and
logistics design, and including proven rolling technologies as well as sophisticated
automation packages. And in everything we do, we have one goal in mind:
To increase the performance of your plant.
Siemens VAI supplies metallurgical plants for everything from iron ore processing to
production of coated steel strip (horizontal integration). And we can also deliver the
complete plant including turnkey equipment, mechanical and hydraulic equipment,
and electrical and automation systems (vertical integration). Siemens VAI is your
life-cycle partner from the initial investment idea to planning, layout, engineering and
construction and we are also there for you later, when it is time to modernize to keep
your mill at the leading edge of technology.
Technical features:
Main benefits:
Optimized yield
Reduced roll consumption
Flexible production
Tight tolerances for strip thickness,
shape and high surface quality
Side trimmers
Selected references:
Pickling line
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Coupling devices
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Main benefits:
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Main benefits:
Tight strip elongation tolerances
Excellent flatness performance
High surface quality (roughness, peak
count, residuals)
Possibility of wet and dry skin passing
modes
Elongation control with optimized compensation, skin pass mill, Mittal Steel, Sparrows Point, USA
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Cleaning brushes
Adjustment cylinders
Backup roll
Flatness-measurement roll
Deflector roll
Work roll
Brushes
Main benefits:
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Main benefits:
Optimized layout solutions for
technological key equipment and
auxiliary equipment
Savings in spare parts and maintenance
cost over the entire life-cycle
Selected references:
SAIL Bokaro Steel Plant, Jharkand, India
Borcelik, Gemlik, Turkey
Essar, Hazira, India
ArcelorMittal, Sparrows Point, MD/USA
Hadeed, Al Jubail, Saudi Arabia
Duferco, Saldanha Bay, South Africa
CSN, Terre Haute, IN/USA
P.T. Krakatau Steel, Cilegon, Indonesia
voestalpine Stahl, Linz, Austria
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Pickling line
Processing lines
Slitting line
Packing line
Coil storage
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Mechatronic packages
Unique solutions to improve the performance of your mill
Flash-butt welder
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Flatness packages
AGC package
Welder package
AGC system
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Rolling strategy
Set-up calculation
(pre-calculation)
Post-calculation
Neural networks
to adapt
physical parameters
Process
automation
Adaption
Basic automation
Measured data
acquisition
Basic automation
Our controls for a perfectly running process
Technological control
Automation levels and functions in continuous pickling lines and tandem mills
Production
control
Order management
Production scheduling
Process
automation
Material management
Job processing
Basic
electrical
equipment
Fast Ethernet
100 Mbit/sec.
Basic
automation
Storage management
Transport control
Plant supervision
HMI operation
Visual display
Speed-master
Looper control
Strip tracking
Welding
Automatic
sequence
Coil build up
and cutting
Automatic
sequence
Pickling section
Mill section
Exit section
Media systems
Line drives
Single movements
Coil transportation
Acid concentration
Fe-control
Line drive and
sequencing
Coiler drives
Single
movements
Inspection
Emulsion
Hydraulic
Lubrication
Auxiliaries
Automation levels and functions of continuous pickling lines and tandem cold mills
Main benefits:
Fully automatic control of thread-in and
tail-out as well as restarts after
stoppages
Continuous rolling when handling
materials of different qualities, gauges
and widths by flying gauge change
Excellent tolerances for strip gauge and
strip flatness are possible in all mill
operating states
The operator only monitors the
automated production process; actual
operator intervention is reduced to an
absolute minimum. Operator guidance
through diagnosis
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Operator station(s)
Real time HMI, live
image display
Switch
Off-line station(s)
SIROLLCIS SIAS server
Processing interface
management sequencing
and storage
Process network
System administration,
calibration, commissioning.
result review
Intranet
Coil report
Schema system (diagram)
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Main benefits:
Fast increase of production during the
start-up phase, which has been proven
in numerous projects
High accuracy, thanks to gained from
rolling hundreds of thousands of strips
Highly reproducible strip properties
over the length of the strip as well as
from strip to strip
For optimized product throughput,
setup is calculated to make maximum
use of installed power in conjunction
with dependable automatic routines for
the shortest possible tooling times (roll
changes, threading)
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Life-cycle management
Partnership never ends
Service contracts
Spare parts and components
Consulting and training
Online and offline
maintenance
Maintenance contracting
Migration packages
Upgrading and
modernization
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Modernization
Fit for the future
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voestalpine Stahl GmbH, is an important supplier to the European automotive, household appliance and
construction industries. The most modern production plants allow the manufacture of high-quality cold
rolled steel strip with narrow thickness tolerances.
The task:
The constantly increasing demand of AHSS (such as TRIP, etc.) and quality standards require new
technological solutions which will be implemented in this new continuous cold rolling tandem mill.
Our solution:
This mill is designed to produce AHSS which are determined for the automobile industry.
Highest quality standards have to be met in terms of dimensional tolerances, strip surface, strip
cleanliness, strip roughness and peak counts. Prior to the decision, intensive studies were carried out by
the customer and Siemens VAI. As result voestalpine Stahl decided that the 4-high technology would fit
best to their product mix.
The result:
In April 2007 the start-up of the tandem cold mill took place. From the very first coil high-quality saleable
strip was produced. The annual capacity of this tandem cold mill is approx. 1,220,000 t.
Plant data:
The tandem cold mill is designed for a wide range of steel grades including also AHSS. Some of these
ultra-high-tensile steel grades are still under development and will be produced by means of special heat
treatment. To roll the complete product mix just one work-roll grinding per mill stand based on SIROLLCIS
Smartcrown system is necessary. Main focus of the technical layout of this mill and in particular in the
drives is on low vibrations during the rolling process.
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Reversing cold mill along with a pickling line and acid regeneration
plant.
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New 2-stand, 4-high skin pass mill for extremely soft to extremely
hard materials
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Higher availability
Measurable process improvement
Greater productivity
Integrated information technology
Optimized processes
A further factor for competitive production is the quality of information processing. Production data must be consolidated and compared with planning data
to ensure optimal production flow.
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As a leading supplier for the metals industry Siemens VAI offers integrated information technology across all automation
levels from the technological equipment to the Enterprise Resource Planning
system. Patented solutions, such as for
iron and steelmaking, hot-rolling,
cold rolling mills or processing lines,
enable systematic quality assurance, efficient logistics, flexible production planning and scheduling, end-to-end tracking
and tracing from raw materials to the end
product and back, and much more.
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