REFORM - A Reusable Framework for Rolling Mills

The goal of this project was to develop an object-oriented framework for the process automation of hot rolling mills. The framework captures the invariant aspects of measured value processing, material tracking, mill pacing, machine learning, mathematical modeling, and process visualization, which are common to all kinds of hot rolling mills. It can be adapted for a specific rolling mill by adapting general framework classes and by plugging in custom-specific parts. The Esprit project REFORM was performed together with Siemens (D), Voest Alpine Stahl (A), Mandator (S), Uni Software Plus (A) and the university of Hamburg (D).