State of the art in hot rolling process control

Control Engineering Practice

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 987-993

  Takahashi, Ryoichi ^a  

^a Sumitomo Metal Industries Limited   (Japan)

Author keywords

Control applications; Control technology; Hot rolling process; Hot strip mill; Process models; Steel

Indexed keywords

CONTROL SYSTEMS; GAGES; QUALITY CONTROL;

HOT STRIP;

HOT ROLLING;

HOT ROLLING; METAL WORKING; PROCESS CONTROL; STEEL;

EID: 0035446131     PISSN: 09670661     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0967-0661(01)00087-9     Document Type: Review

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