Patent ID: 11865598
Assignee: OUTOKUMPU OYJ
Field: Machine tools (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B | IPC B

Claim 0:
1. A manufacturing method for flexible rolling of metal strips, comprising:
guiding a metal strip with a pre-definable material thickness through a mill stand containing several rolls, wherein the metal strip is set to lead through a roll gap during the rolling operation, where bending of the work rolls is steered to achieve a defined profile with different thicknesses over a length of the metal strip, based on two operating steps of a rolling operation;
a first step of the two operating steps is a learning phase based on manually controlling and storing parameter values of hydraulic adjustment and flatness actuators during rolling of the defined profile, during which thickness and flatness data of the strip are collected;
wherein the flatness actuator parameters are controlled to steer bending of the work rolls to achieve the defined profile; and
a second step of the two operating steps is repeating a program loop for flexible rolling having starting values from the first step for providing a strip having the defined profile repeatedly formed over the length of the strip;
wherein the starting values from the first step include the thickness and flatness data collected during the first step and the parameter values of the hydraulic adjustment and flatness actuators stored during the first step.