Siemens AG (Nürnberg, Germany):

Wagner D., Mag. Eng., Industry Sector, e-mail: karin.kaljumae@siemens.com

High-strength steel strips and sheets should be subjected to cleaning after rolling and consequent heat treatment, before their coiling. Processing of strips and sheets in acid solution allows to delete surface contamination. Multiple parameters, such as acid dosing and its distribution along strip surface, should be controlled permanently, ant it is a task for reliable visualizing software. It helps to optimize productivity of a technological line and therefore to save chemical agents and to provide other savings. Close collaboration between the producer and the customer provides actual advantages for the unit operators: they receive innovative and reliable pickling bath with low acid consumption and high production capacity. A wide functional spectrum in the field of data processing and control allows to optimize production parameters and to avoid sudden downtimes of equipment. Owing to standardized user interface, technical and maintenance staff can execute its work more quickly. Both companies — unit manufacturer CMI UVK and software provider Focus — get advantages due to developed standards, providing increased reliability of designing of new production facilities and decreased periods of their putting into operation.