A Steckel mill has a reversing unit for rolling a rolled product and winding furnaces arranged on the entrance side and exit side of the reversing unit. When rolling the rolled product in a region of a head of the rolled product, a target thickness of the rolled product is ignored, while measuring a current thickness and/or a hardness of the rolled product and comparing this with a setpoint value. One the measured variable reaches or is below the setpoint value, the reversing unit is operated with a view to achieving the target thickness of the rolled product. The Steckel mill is operated to allow for rolling of a cold, non-rollable piece of the rolled product, so that malfunctions are avoided and the usable part of the rolled product is as large as possible.

A process includes flexible rolling of a strip made of a metallic material, wherein a thickness profile with different sheet thicknesses along the length of the strip is produced such that successive regions of the flexibly rolled strip each correspond to a target thickness profile of a sheet metal blank to be cut out of same; determining a measured thickness profile of a plurality of successive regions of the strip; calculating a target position in the strip for a sheet metal blank to be cut out of the strip depending on the generated measured thickness profile of at least two successive regions of the strip; cutting the flexibly rolled strip by at least one cutting device along the target position for producing the sheet meal blank. A plant is further provided for producing a sheet metal blank.

A cut-to-length steel coil processing line has an un-coiling reel, a temper mill, a stretcher leveler, a shearer, and a stacking apparatus arranged to sequentially process a continuous length of sheet metal. The line may be configured such that the continuous length of the sheet metal is directed from the uncoiling reel through the temper mill to the stacking apparatus without processing through the stretcher leveler when a determined thickness of the continuous length of sheet metal is at or below a selected measurement criteria. In the alternative, the line may be configured such that the continuous length of the sheet metal is directed from the uncoiling reel through the stretcher leveler to the stacking apparatus without processing through the temper mill when the determined thickness of the continuous length of sheet metal is greater than the selected measurement criteria.

A method controls the section sizes of a rolled product in a segment of a rolling line between at least two rolling stands, wherein each is provided with its own drive members, in which at least a detector located between the two rolling stands detects a characteristic size of the rolled product. A control unit compares the characteristic size of the rolled product with a reference size and acts on said drive members in order to hold the rolled product in an optimal drawing condition. The method includes setting a predefined value of an electric quantity of at least one of the drive members, measuring the reference size, and verifying the characteristic size of the rolled product in transit. If a deviation is detected between the characteristic size and the reference size, returning the characteristic size of the rolled product to the reference size.

A method for controlling a sheet thickness in an electrode plate manufacturing process, which is performed by at least one processor, includes obtaining a thickness measured for each of a plurality of portions of a sheet rolled through a plurality of rollers, calculating, based on the obtained thickness for each of the plurality of portions, a dispersion for the sheet thickness, determining, based on the calculated dispersion, movement information of at least one target roller from the plurality of rollers, and controlling the at least one target roller to be moved based on the determined movement information.

An apparatus and method for manufacturing electrodes are disclosed. An electrode manufacturing apparatus includes: a cutter configured to cut an electrode plate parallel to a progress direction of the electrode plate to produce two or more cut electrode plates including a first cut electrode plate and a second cut electrode plate; and rolling rolls including a pair of first rolls configured to roll the first cut electrode plate and a pair of second rolls configured to roll the second cut electrode plate. The electrode manufacturing apparatus can manufacture electrodes without curvature and/or wrinkling, thickness variation between rolls, and reduction in productivity.

A strip width controller for a reversible rolling mill includes a rolling controller, a rolling position detector, a tracker, and a calculator. The rolling controller operates an edger so that a pair of edger rolls comes into contact with a strip to be rolled during reverse pass rolling. The rolling position detector detects a rolling position of the edger when the pair of edger rolls are in contact with the strip to be rolled during the reverse pass rolling. The tracker tracks a longitudinal position of the strip to be rolled during the reverse pass rolling. The calculator calculates strip width result values at a plurality of positions in the longitudinal direction of the strip to be rolled based on an output of the rolling position detector and an output of the tracker.

A control method for a roll press device, an electronic device, and a storage medium are provided. A first average thickness is obtained. A first deviation value between the first average thickness and a preset target thickness is determined. A master-cylinder adjustment value of the at least one master cylinder is determined according to the first deviation value, in response to the first deviation value being greater than a first preset deviation-value. The at least one master cylinder is adjusted according to the master-cylinder adjustment value, in response to the master-cylinder adjustment value being greater than a first threshold. A second average thickness is obtained in response to the master-cylinder adjustment value being less than or equal to the first threshold. A bending-cylinder adjustment value is determined according to the second average thickness. The at least one bending cylinder is adjusted according to the bending-cylinder adjustment value.

A roll stand of a rolling mill is supplied with a metal strip by an upstream supply device at an in-feed speed (v), with said metal strip being rolled in the roll stand. A measuring device between the supply device and the roll stand detects a respective thickness value (d) of the metal strip for consecutive sections of the metal strip and supplies said value to a control device of the rolling mill. The control device determines final thickness deviations based on the preliminary thickness deviations. The control device determines a respective control value (A2, A3) for the roll stand and/or the supply device for the sections of the metal strip based on the final thickness deviation of the respective section of the metal strip and the final thickness deviations of multiple preceding and/or subsequent sections of the metal strip.

A cold rolling mill rolling condition setting method using a prediction model being generated with an explanatory variable being first multi-dimensional data obtained by transforming past rolling performance data including pre-cold rolling data of a roll material on an entry side of the cold rolling mill into multi-dimensional data, and an objective variable being post-cold rolling data of the roll material on a delivery side of the cold rolling mill, the method includes: estimating a post-rolling shape of a roll target material by inputting, to the prediction model, second multi-dimensional data generated from information including the pre-cold rolling data of the roll target material on the entry side of the cold rolling mill and a target rolling condition of the cold rolling mill; and changing the target rolling condition of the cold rolling mill such that the estimated post-rolling shape of the roll target material satisfies a predetermined condition.