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Title

REDUCTION OF STRIP BREAKS IN TERNIUM PLTCM PLANT

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Gómez-De-La-Garza, C. A.; Rodríguez-Pérez, D. F.; Salinas-Reyes, J.; Salazar-Garza, Luis R.; Rangel-Fuentes, A.; Ramirez-Cuéllar, J.

Gómez-De-La-Garza, C. A.

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Rodríguez-Pérez, D. F.

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Salinas-Reyes, J.

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Salazar-Garza, Luis R.

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Rangel-Fuentes, A.

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Ramirez-Cuéllar, J.

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DOI

10.5151/9785-9785-32303

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Abstract

The Pickling Line Tandem Cold Mill (PLTCM) from Ternium Pesquería started in 2013. It is a line with 5 stands, 6 high; focused mainly on the exposed automotive market, with a wide spread of products with high quality requirements. In addition the operational continuity is very important, for this, one of the greatest challenges is to ensure operational discipline, the order of production, the quality of the input (hot band), operational interruptions, equipment failure, breakage of strip in the mill, among others. In relation to this, it has a strong impact on productivity, customer compliance, damage to equipment, rolls, safety, quality, reprocessing among others. Here is present the results obtained in the project "decrease of strip breaks" which focused on several fronts, discipline in the order of production, previous review of raw material in surface and dimensional defects with automatic inspection equipment in the hot mill, as well as in PLTCM, generation of logic in the redundant systems of alerts and prevention to avoid or minimize strip breaks that were high impact in the past. All these multidisciplinary actions led as a whole to a significant improvement in the performance indicators of the PLTCM, in productivity, compliance, reprocessing and quality in the cold rolled mill.

Keywords

breakes