Patent ID: 8291736

Claim:
A method of operating a rolling mill that mills a strip-shaped rolling stock, where the rolling mill has a roll stand with working rolls, a roll train located at a feeding end of the roll stand and a control device, and the strip-shaped rolling stock has a leading edge with two ends, the method comprising: forming a roll gap between the working rolls; triggering the roll stand via the control device such that the working rolls of the roll stand turn with a peripheral speed; triggering the roll train located at the feeding end of the roll stand via the control device such that the leading edge of the strip-shaped rolling stock travels at a feeding speed; determining if an execution condition is fulfilled, wherein the execution condition is based at least in part on a characteristic variable of the strip-shaped rolling stock; and synchronizing the peripheral speed and the feeding speed if the execution condition is fulfilled so that the feeding speed is greater than the peripheral speed, via the control device such that, because of the synchronization of the peripheral speed and the feeding speed, any angled position of the leading edge relative to the roll gap is at least reduced.