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Predictive maintenance in a rolling mill

Health indicators and anomaly detection models help detect abnormal behavior in rolling equipment before it turns into downtime.

Health indicators and anomaly detection models help detect abnormal behavior in rolling equipment before it turns into downtime.

Steel manufacturing
Anomaly detection
Predictive maintenance

Challenge

Rolling mills generate many process signals across campaigns, products and routes. Maintenance teams need to know when equipment behavior deviates from normal operation.

Data

Historical campaigns were grouped by product and route, using process variables such as speed, torque, tension, RPM and load indicators.

Solution

Artelnics combined statistical ranges with auto-associative neural networks to calculate health indicators and detect deviations in real time.

Method

Auto-associative neural networks and statistical baselines.

Output

Deviation indicators and alarms by equipment context.

Results

The solution supports proactive maintenance by highlighting when process behavior moves outside expected operating patterns.

Illustrations

Deviation indicators for rolling mill operation
Rolling mill deviation chart