Patent ID: 7916030

Claim:
A rolling facility comprising: a plurality of mill stands, with each mill stand having at least one work roll supported by a bearing assembly, with each bearing assembly comprising components of a plurality of liners, with each liner having a bearing surface engaging another surface of a roll stand liner during operation, and a plurality of chocks attached to some of the plurality of liners, with each component of said bearing assembly having a RFID tag, wherein said at least one work roll is assembled remotely from said plurality of mill stands and from a selected combination of bearing assembly components so that each of said at least one work roll includes a unique combination of bearing assembly components; an RFID tag reader capable of interrogating each RFID tag of the bearing assembly components; and a controller in communication with the RFID tag reader which stores information relating to a bearing assembly based on RFID tags associated with at least one of the RFID tags on a component within the bearing assembly, said information being used to make adjustments to at least one of the mill stands so as to improve rolled product quality.