Application of automatic and user friendly diagnosis and monitoring systems in the steel industry

Target is the use of monitoring systems in a simple and secure way under he avy industrial surroundings in steel industry for enhancing production rate and quality and for reducing unpredictable down time simultaneously. The b asic Version of automatic failure prognosis is a simple traffic light and a n automatic information of process control system and personal staff about predicted and actual damages and their intensity. The user of these partial ly distributed monitoring systems should receive short and handsome individ ual information about the condition of the observed process and production equipment. The realisation of these ideas is demonstrated on several exampl es with automatic control and prognosis in the steel industry: the automati c chatter control, chatter and drive monitoring of a 5 stand cold rolling m ill, the outbreak of trimming shears at slitting lines and side cut shears, the bearing failure prognosis at a heavy reversal mill without sensors on bearings, and a distributed data acquisition at hot dip galvanising line fo r different user groups.