Minimizing Rolling Mill Gap Control Engineering Time Using Commercially Available Motion Control Modules
(Room 103B)
08 May 17
11:00 AM
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11:30 AM
Tracks:
Sensors & Controls
We recently upgraded and modernized a temper mill (in-line with a pickle line). The old roll force cylinder controls were "black box," so the code could not be readily converted, and was created and commissioned from scratch. The new temper mill control platform had very good built-in motion control functionality. In this paper, we will present how we misused the commercially available 2-axis analog motion control module to close both the position loop and the velocity loop on the roll force cylinders, resulting in very good responses (~25 ms), with very little engineering time.