ibaDatawyzer-ICC
Automatic Monitoring of the Coil Tracking
With ibaDatawyzer-ICC coils in the metal producing industry can be identified by characteristic geometrical features.
ibaDatawyzer-ICC at a glance
- Plant-wide coil identification
- Verification of the coil tracking
- Detection and reporting of coil mix-ups
- Detection of rewinding processes
- Finding the real parent coil
- Search for parent coil of partial coils (1:n)
- Alignment of measurements of subsequent processes
- Determination of scrap lengths on head and tail
- Easy integration into iba data acquisition systems
Product Highlights
Reliable Identification of Coils
ibaDatawyzer-ICC (Inline Coil tracking Certifier) is an application for the metal-producing industry that is used for identifying coils by means of characteristic geometrical properties which have been acquired and recorded with ibaPDA.
As the identification is made by means of these inherent properties, ibaDatawyzer-ICC can help detecting and rectifying errors and weaknesses of logistical material tracking systems.
Matching and Alignment
Using the patented fingerprint technology, ibaDatawyzer-ICC determines the unique characteristic of a thickness length profile and uses it for the coil identification. The result of the analysis essentially is a hit rate (match counter), i.e. the number of congruences of „parent and child coil“ on distinctive positions within the signal pattern.
In two measurement protocols of the same coil, the hit rate should be significantly above a plant-specific limit.
Display and Operation
- customized queries
- matches result table
- extended query
- list of potential parent coils
- graphs for matches and alignments
A dataset is displayed for every alignment (parent/child). By means of the query assistant (1), selection criteria can be predefined. The list of results of the query (2) is fully configurable. Usually, the following fields are selected to be displayed:
- Production date of parent-/ child-coil
- Coil ID
- Match counter
- Scaling, orientation and offset
- Statistical characteristic values and other information
Further Information
Background
When producing rolled steel strips or aluminum strips, the material passes through a number of different machines and processes. Between the individual processes, like e.g. hot rolling, pickling, cold rolling etc., the material usually is stored intermediately and transported. Despite the use of logistical coil tracking systems and warehouse management systems, mismatches or losses can always occur.
This can happen due to a wrong assignment or a coil that has been stored at the wrong place. Also an unplanned and not acquired rewinding process is sufficient for generating inconsistent quality data. This results in malfunctions in operation and in further processing.
Fundamentals
ibaDatawyzer-ICC mainly uses for coil identification the thickness measuring value of the rolled strip. As the material thickness usually is measured at the output of one and the input of the following manufacturing process, it „accompanies“ as characteristic measured value the coil from hot rolling to the cold rolled and possibly coated sheet.
The length-related thickness measuring value, the thickness length profile, distinguishes itself by its unique signal pattern and by the fact that it is an unchangeable part of a coil, comparable to the human fingerprint. In some cases, the width measuring value can be used for improving the coil search.
Procedure
The high resolution measured values are recorded at all involved machines by different ibaPDA- systems in measurement files. Subsequently, the ibaDatawyzer-ICC relevant measurement data are automatically converted by means of ibaDatCoordinator and ibaAnalyzer into length related data and extracted into separate and compact measurement files. By another extraction with ibaAnalyzer-DB, a central ICC database is filled with the most important characteristic values of the coils and the reference to the compact measurement data files.
Each time a coil is completed from a follow-up process („child“), ibaDatawyzer-ICC determines the reference to the „parent“-coil using the information provided by the logistical coil tracking systems. Based on the determined reference, ibaDatawyzer- ICC loads the corresponding measured data files of both coils and starts the analysis.
Integration and Alarming
Based on the open database architecture, the matching results can be used for release systems (automatic locks) and/ or for cross-process information systems (genealogy). Simple alarms can also be configured with corresponding error reports via e-mail.
Please contact your local sales partner for details.
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