Z-Mill Roll Shop Auto Roll Identification and Storage Yard Management论文.pdfVIP

Z-Mill Roll Shop Auto Roll Identification and Storage Yard Management ·1 · Z-Mill Roll Shop Auto Roll Identification and Storage Yard Management Yeh Ho-Tien (Electrical Control Department, China Steel Corporation, Kaohsiung 81233, China Taiwan) Abstract Generally, in Hot Strip Mill or Cold Mill, the roll ID is etched on head/tail end side face of the roll for visual identification. But in Z-Mill the work roll is too small (65~100mm) to etch roll ID and because of the thrust bearing for work roll, etching roll ID on side face is not allowed. The only way to identify the rolls is to etch the ID on the head side neck which is a small area. Besides, the Z-Mill has to change work rolls at least one time for each coil rolled, which means larger amount of work rolls compare with conventional mills. The rolls have to be stored in the pallet which can store up to 6 rolls and the pallet can be piled up to 5 layers, it is difficult for visual identification in the storage yard. For roll ID identification, CSC RD department designed the ring shape RFID tags (2mm ring width and thickness, 20/30mm diameter) which fits and glued inside the center hole of the roll head/tail end side. CSC Electrical Control department configured and integrated the interfaces between the fixed RFID readers and the Roll Shop Management System(RSMS) for automatic roll ID identification; and also design the Android tablet computer application which use Blue Tooth to connect to the portable RFID reader for roll ID、pallet ID and location ID readings, and use wireless network (Wi-Fi) to update the RSMS yard database to facilitate the roll storage