Objective
The aim of the project is to achieve significant improvement in stripcast quality through an integrated control system and its use in process driving.
The production process chosen, continuous casting of A1 alloy strip, shows characteristics particularly suitable for the development / assessment of the control system.
A system for the automatic on-line evaluation of strip cast aluminium has been developed.
The project programme carried out through the study and development of: vision system, temperature control by IR equipment, thickness measurement by eddy current, expert system, data management and correlation between strip condition and process parameters has been succesfully concluded with the testing on the casting line of Nuova Comsal plant in Portovesme.
The system shows good performances being able to detect the defects and the anomalies on the strip surface and to suggest the corrective actions to the casting line operators.
Use of the system results in a strictly controlled process reducing the strip defect with an quality increase and cost reduction.
Being easy and flexible the system is suitable to be utilized in any existing casting line producing aluminium strip.
To achieve this target the following actions are necessary:
-continuous assessment of the strip temperature distribution immediately after salification
-thickness profile measurement of the strip both longitudinal and transversely
-detection of defects and identification of the type, importance and dimension of same. All the above mentioned measurements must be taken non destructively and by non contact method techniques in hostile industrial environments.
The detection of the surface defects has to be fulfilled in real time while manufacturing the aluminium strip.
The data obtained will be used in a further stage for:
-development of the data management system for the collection of data from various measurement devices and for their integration as quality report of the strip
-analysis of correlations between the process parameters and the collected measurements
-development of an expert system able to drive the casting operation using processed data
-final in-field test of the prototype system and evaluation of the improvements achieved.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- engineering and technology electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering electronic engineering control systems
- natural sciences chemical sciences inorganic chemistry post-transition metals
- natural sciences computer and information sciences artificial intelligence expert systems
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28100 Novara
Italy
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