On the possibility of assessment of the level of safety culture automation on the basis of observation of current parameters.

Abstract

One of the most important indicators of a plate rolling mill efficiency is a metal consumption (cost coefficients) per ton of product. Reduction of metal consumption coefficients is ensured by the accuracy of the set geometric dimensions realization during the rolling, increasing the accuracy of geometric dimensions of the plates that are cut from the rolls on fire cutting units, as well as by operating in the minus field of tolerances on the geometric dimensions of the plates. Improving the accuracy of the geometric dimensions of the plates, cut from the rolls on the fire cutting units, is achieved through the automatic control of these units. The article describes the technical solutions, implemented in the automated control system of fire cutting units (the ACS FCU) of the heat treatment department and fire cutting of a plate mill 3600. The purposes of the ACS FCU creation include an increase in accuracy and stabilization of the geometrical sizes of the work pieces cut out of plates through the automatic control; reduction of metal consumption coefficients due to the operation in the minus field of tolerances on the geometric dimensions of the work pieces; replacement of obsolete equipment with the modern one in order to increase the reliability of the mill equipment operation; increasing the ACS FCU service life through the use of modern equipment with high reliability characteristics; reduction of unplanned equipment downtime that may arise as a result of the ACS FCU technical means failures. The automated control system of fire cutting units has been set up, tested and put into operation; a metrological certification of the system has been carried out as well. The results of the ACS FCU testing and its subsequent operation have confirmed the system efficiency and the performance of all its intended functions. This system can be also implemented in the processes of treatment of other rolling mills, equipped with the units for the fire cutting of metal.