IMS Measuring Systems in Cold Rolling Mills / Processing Lines

Aerospace technology, automotive and shipbuilding, architecture, medical technology, and household appliances - the areas of application for high-quality strip steels seem almost unlimited. The steel industry is developing rapidly and the demands for new, adapted products are also occurring at ever shorter intervals. The economy demands new processes and materials in the steel industry and the demand for the quality of the end product is also subject to a continuous increase. Cold-rolled strip is becoming increasingly important in this context. In order to provide the processing industry with optimum base materials, the rolling processes are complex. Throughout the entire process and its fully automated control for end products of the highest quality, measuring systems from IMS guarantee compliance with minimum tolerances. - Conventional cold rolling mills - Coupled pickling / tandem mills (PLTCM) - Finishing lines - Process lines - Shear lines benefit from our perfectly coordinated highly precise and fully automated measuring technology for the exact determination of: - Thickness - Thickness profile - Thickness edge profile - width - holes - Fine holes - Edge cracks - phase content - internal inclusions / shell defects - coating overlays - flatness - flatness - 2D surface inspection - strip tension / web tension - Speed of web - Length Precisely reproducible measurements as well as real-time evaluations optimize your production facilities and increase product quality while reducing production costs and reject rates. In addition to their longevity and impressive performance, our measuring systems also impress with the extremely convenient user-friendliness of their control and regulation software. The MEVIweb user software developed in-house by IMS convinced the juries of two renowned awards and was honored with the iF Design Award and the Red Dot Design Award.

„Responsibility means

„Responsibility means to blame yourself for the lack of sustainability.“ (Ronny Boch, geologist, free author) Conservation of resources through precision out of passion and quality out of conviction We at IMS, as the world market leader for measuring systems, are aware of our social responsibility of sustainable management! To give our customers, suppliers and stakeholders a transparent insight into concrete measures we have implemented in the IMS Group, we launched the project IMSocial in close adherence to the principles of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). But for us at IMS, IMSocial is more than just a project! IMSocial is a belief and stands for the values of our corporate philosophy. After all, the sooner even minor defects – which in steel products can already render them useless – are detected, the faster machining processes can be corrected. And precisely this contributes significantly to active climate protection as it is no longer necessary to produce new products to substitute defective ones, thereby saving energy and water, and also reducing reject rates significantly. Learn more about IMSocial and visit us at www.imsocial.info! We not only want to achieve sustainability in our products and customer relations, but also place the same demands on our social, ecological and economic responsibility. The first thought that comes to mind in connection with the non-contact measuring systems from IMS for the steel, non-ferrous metal and aluminium industries is certainly not one of active conservation of resources. However, our isotope, x-ray and optical measuring systems do exactly that: they save and preserve resources! The IMS product portfolio comprises numerous measuring systems and processes for various types of measurement. Our systems deliver and document exceptionally precise measurement results under the toughest conditions in hot and cold rolling mills as well as service centres. In this way it is possible to detect material defects, surface irregularities, tolerance and dimensional deviations and many other factors that, in the worst case, would lead later to material rejects at an early stage during the manufacturing process. 26 27