The Force Feed Forward (FFF) Mills Stability System for hot strip mills is a unique mill-stability, gauge-control and width-maintenance system.
The low cost, short implementation and non-disruptive installation make FFF a superior upgrading choice.
The FFF AGC System has been installed and proven in hot strip mills around the world and delivers a more stable mill operation, world-class gauge tolerances and reduced width variations in the finishing mill
- The FFF System is designed, installed, commissioned and tuned in less than a year
- No mill downtime is required to implement FFF
- Mills change from the existing control system to the FFF System by the flip of a switch at the operator desk
- No looper upgrades required
- Semi-automatic leveling operation coordinated with operator intervention
- Mill Stability
- Higher mill stability by balancing steel mass flow
- Noticeable reduction in operator speed intervention
- Reduced torn tail, head-end cobbles and miscoilers
- Finishing Mill Width Performance
- Reduction in width rejects
- Reduction of overwidth practice
- Reduction in head-end necking
- Gauge Performance
- Less than 4.5 mm - better than 98% within ¼ ASTM A568M
- More than 4.5 mm - better than 96% within ¼ ASTM A635M
- Improved head-end performance by 5 to 7%
