We understand the automation of straightening to be the use of offline and online data, a basic automation system, at least one straightener, a geometry operator, a stretching limit operator and an adjustment operator. Information flow takes place in a loop using all the previously mentioned elements and is aimed at the automatic positioning of the straightening rolls with due consideration of the production, product and process data identified online and of the technology, equipment, product and quality data determined offline.
Automatic straightening permits a straightened product to be manufactured in the quality required, regardless of any fluctuations in diameter and stretching limit over the length of the material to be straightened.
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Adapted from “"We do it straight" — Wire Straightening”, p. 25 (ISBN 3-00-005897-4).