Image processing system
CV3000 DELTA

The crop shear practice is very important for the Hot Strip Mills to avoid
cobbles and steering problems in the finishing stands. Steckel Rolling operation for all coiled plate product also has problems if the front end is not cropped squarely, there are often problems with steering and cobbles which cause significant delays and loss of production.
DELTA is offering a very cost-effective Vision System, for installation at the delivery side of the roughing mill, which can be integrated into the existing Crop Shear Control System. This is a well-proven system with many installations in various hot strip mills. This Vision System captures and optimizes the target cut line for each individual head and tail crop in real time. This technology offers as much as 0.2% of yield savings in most of high production hot strip mills through a simple implementation of such a system.
The system will capture the images of each head and tail and overlays the optimized cut line based on shape & width and feeds that information to customer's shear control system. The following technical description explains how the system optimizes the cut line.