A system shall be developed to support the quality departments during the assessment of flat products quality. Based on all available quality information of the final flat product as well of previous process stages a suitable "grading" of the product quality will be developed.

Already during the production the quality information can be used for production planning. By using all available quality information together with cost information a Decision Support System (DSS) will be generated to support the quality department in grading the product, in the assignment of produced coils to orders and in checking if the produced quality match the customer demands.