AVTRON OVERVIEW

 FOUNDED IN 1953
 PRIVATELY OWNED
 U.S. $ 85M SALES
 ZERO LONG TERM DEBT
 410 EMPLOYEES
 4 MANUFACTURING PLANTS
 GLOBAL CUSTOMERS
 ISO 9001 CERTIFIED
 AVTRON
INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION BUSINESS

◆ AC & DC DRIVES AND SYSTEMS

◆ AUTOMATION SYSTEMS

◆ PROCESS DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEMS

◆ CUSTOM SYSTEMS INTEGRATION

◆MILL DUTY DIGITAL ENCODERS

 References

• Arcelor Mittal-Coatesville, PA 140” Plate Mill

• Arcelor Mittal-Coatesville, PA Continuous Caster
• Masic-Beijing, China New 1200mm Hot Strip Mills (5)
• Westinghouse-Blairsville, PA Pilger Mills (3)
• Timken-Canton, OH Seamless Tube Mills (2)
• Thachin-Bangkok, Thailand New Bar Mill
• Alcoa-Lancaster, PA Alu. Temper Mill
• SDI-Columbia City, IN New Ladle/Charge Cranes
• UPI – Pittsburgh, Ca. Temper Mill, Pickle Line
• Wheeling Pitt-Allenport, PA Temper Mill & Pickle Line
• Wheeling Pitt-Mingo Junction, OH Vessel Tilt
• Nucor – Memphis, TN. New Ladle AC Cranes
• DJ Galvanizing-Windsor, ONT CGL Retrofits
• MacSteel-Jackson, MI Bar Mill
• Arcelor Mittal-Cleveland, OH; Pickle Line
• Dofasco-Hamilton, ONT-Blast Furnace Skip Hoist
• Angang-Anshan, China 3 Blooming Mills
• DeLong Steel-Xintai, China HSM Revamp F1-7
• Wuhan Steel-Wuhan, China HSM and Down Coilers
• Tata Tinplate-Jamshedpur, India Tandem Cold Mill
• US Steel-Portage, IN Temper Mill
• US Steel-Gary IN HSM Crop Shear
• Danieli - Italy, RTI Plate Mill
AVTRON AC AND DC DRIVES SYSTEMS
ADDVANTAGE-32TM DC DIGITAL DRIVES

Chassis Style Drives Puck Style Drives

10 to 550 Amps 800 to 3,000 Amps
ROLLING MILL DC BRIDGES

REGEN
ASSEMBLED BRIDGE
HOT STRIP MILL DC SYSTEM
12 Pulse DC Bridge
 ROLLING MILL DC BRIDGES

AMPS VOLTS O/L AMPS O/L TIME

3000 ADC 850 VDC 250% 60 Sec.

2500 ADC 900 VDC 200% 60 Sec.

2100 ADC 900 VDC 200% 60 Sec.

1400 ADC 660 VDC 275%/400% 60 Sec./10 Sec.

1250 ADC 660 VDC 250% 60 Sec.

CUSTOM DC BRIDGE
Plate Mill 12 Pulse DC Drive
ROLLING MILL DC DRIVE
BLAST FURNACE SKIP HOIST SYSTEM
B.O.F. VESSEL TILT REDUNDANT SYSTEM
CONTINUOUS CASTER SYSTEM
H.S.M. CROP SHEAR DRIVE
PLATE MILL DRIVE SYSTEM
PICKLE LINE DRIVE SYSTEM
COLD MILL DRIVE SYSTEM
ROD MILL STAND DRIVE
ADDVANTAGE-32TM DC DIGITAL SCR RETROFITS

Distributed Centralized Parallel

SCR SCR SCR
Interface Interface Interface
 RETROFITS
ADDVANTAGE-32TM DC DIGITAL Drive

GE Siltrol Plus Retrofit Experience

◆ G.E. Silcomatic
◆ G.E. Siltrol
◆ G.E. Siltrol Plus
◆ Westinghouse M4
◆ Westinghouse M5
◆ Westinghouse C56
◆ Westinghouse T100
◆ Reliance S6 Maxline
◆ Reliance MaxPak
◆ Reliance Automax
◆ Electroflyte
◆ Siemens
◆ Toshiba
◆ Asea
◆ AEG
◆ GEC
◆ AB

Before After
HSM ROUGHING STAND RETROFIT
ADD-32TM DC DIGITAL MG SET RETROFITS

Digital Field Regulator with

Regulator Auxiliary
10 to 800 Amps Hardware
HSM FINISHING STAND MG SET RETROFIT
 AC DIGITAL DRIVES

Integrated Flux Vector Drive Common Bus Flux Vector Drive

1 - 2000 HP 1 - 2000 HP
690 VAC Max. 690 VAC Max.
H.S.M. RUNOUT TABLE AC DRIVE SYSTEM
OVERHEAD CRANE SYSTEMS
 OVERHEAD CRANE SYSTEMS

Avtron Industrial Crane Capabilities include:

• CMAA and AIST capabilities
• Complete AC and DC drive packages
• Smart drives with complete crane control firmware
• Complete engineering, service and manufacturing
• System flexibility
• Automated systems with most major brands of PLC
 CRANE SOFTWARE FEATURES

Hoist Controls:
• Torque Proving
• Brake release
• Load Float
• Load Weigh
• Extended speed range
• Multiple motion control
• Discrete/analog reference
• Reference shaping tables SWAY CONTROL
• Multiple current limits
• Reference S-curve
• Brake inhibit control
Increase crane speed and shorten acceleration
ramps without increased load sway

Add restricted area, speed limitations and

automated positioning

Prevent damages due to swinging load

 SYSTEM Communications

Ethernet Switch Ethernet Communications Module

100 mBaud
Fiber-Optic

GE Fanuc
RX7i PLC

Genius Bus
Protocols Supported:
• GE Ethernet Global Data (EGD)
• Modbus TCP and TCP/IP
• Allen-Bradley IP
GE Fanuc GE Fanuc GE Fanuc
Quickpanel Genius VersaMax
HMI I/O I/O
 PLC AND AUTOMATION SYSTEM INTERFACE

VME to Ethernet Interface Module

Modicon Quantum w/Modbus

TCP
Ethernet
NetMax Ethernet Module
for Automax System
ADDapt PROGRAMMING TOOLS
ADDAPT ADVANCED
SYSTEM MAINTENANCE DIAGNOSTICS
 Performance View ™

An easy to use, on-

machine process
diagnostic system,
consisting of real-
time and historical
data
 PROCESS DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEM

AVTRON
PERFORMANCE VIEW PLC/LEVEL 1 CONTROL HMI

ETHERNET
SWITCH

◆ COLLECTS DRIVE ANALOG AND DIGITAL DATA

UP TO 24 ANALOG POINTS PER DEVICE
304 DIGITAL POINTS PER DEVICE

◆ COLLECTS AT UP TO 10 ms SCAN RATE

◆ CAN COLLECT DATA FROM PLC’S AS WELL
ADD-32 ◆ ALL DATA STORED EVERY SCAN
SIGNAL TRENDING DISPLAY
EVENT HISTORY DISPLAY
MACHINE PERMISSIVE SCREEN
REAL-TIME SCREEN
 SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE
LOGIC AND AUTOMATION SYSTEMS
PERFORMANCE VIEW ADDAPT 2000 PLC HMI

ETHERNET
SWITCH 100 mBaud Fiber-Optic Ethernet

ADD-32 DC AMG AFS AFM ACCEL 500 AC

DRIVE SYSTEM
 Process Automation System

Plant Network

Motor Modem Server

HMI Room
PC
Service
Laptops
Mill Network
Remote
TCP / IP
Service
PC
GE or AB PLC Motion Ctrl

Analog In

-0003 -0003 -0003

Servo I/ O
Ga uge Ga uge Ga uge

Real-Time Drive Communication Link

Correction Feed Forward

Remote I/ O Network Left Right

Mill
Winder Winder
Drive
I/ O I/ O I/ O I/ O Drive Drive
Operator Stations and Motor Control Center
 AGC System Hardware
 Container for the AGC Motion Controller
 Provide General Device Control Logic
 Communication Conduit Between the AGC
System and the Drive System

TCP / IP
Motion Ctrl

Mill Network

GE or AB PLC
Real-Time Drive Communication Link

Remote I/ O Network Left Right

Mill
Winder Winder
Drive
I/ O I/ O I/ O I/ O Drive Drive
 AGC Motion Controller
 Cylinder I/O and Servo Control
 Length/Speed and Gauge I/O
 Register interface to PLC
 Machine Independent Design ...

Pressure Feedback

Position
Motion Controller

Feedback
Speed Speed
Laser Laser
Analog In or or
-0003 Encoder Encoder -0003

Servo I/ O Gauge Gauge

Servo
Valves
Cylinders
Exit Only AGC Mode

Exit Speed

Exit Ga uge
Feedback Feedback

Position

Force
Manual Feed Forward
Control to Entry Winder
Feed-Forward AGC Mode

Exit Speed

Exit Ga uge Entry Gauge

Feedback Feedback Feed Forward
FIFO
Position

Force
Manual Feed Forward
Control to Entry Winder
Entry/Exit AGC Modes
Elongation
Exit Speed Entry Speed
<

Entry Gauge
Exit Ga uge Mass
Flow Feed Forward
Feedback
FIFO
Position

Force
Manual Feed Forward
Control to Entry Winder
 High Speed for Smoothness

 Prevents introducing high frequency deviations

into the strip
 Gentle to hydraulics and mechanics

------------ Devia tion

------------ Low speed corrections
------------ High speed smoothed corrections
 AGC System Software

 All AGC Platforms Programmed from a Common

AGC Code Base
 Status and Control for the Entire System
 Fault/Status Display and Logging
 FFT Thickness Analysis
 SPC/QC Reports
 Pass Schedule Storage/Retrieval
 Data Logging
 Automatic Slowdown/Stop
...
 Permissive Status Display
 Hierarchy Groups Related Items
• Quickly find missing permissives
 Fault Display and Logging
 Pop-up Message Box Also Logs to Disk
 Hierarchy Groups Related Items
 FFT Thickness Analysis
 Graphs Entry and Exit Deviations by Wavelength, Roll
Diameter or Frequency
 Quickly Identifies Mechanical Problems
 SPC/QC Reports
 Real-Time Display
 User Customized
Report Templates
 Local or Networked
Storage
 Data and Information Management

Windows VB .Net OVERALL

Microsoft Windows and .Net
File Edit View Insert Format Tools
-+X
CONTROL REPORTS
Cancel OK
JOB # SERIES
DATE DEVIAT

JOBS
METAL SPEED
TENSILE DIP

DATA
LENGTH ANGLE
THICK HEIGHT

MySQL
MACHINE DATABASE
SETUP

OPERATOR
ACTIONS
ODBC
SQL SERVER
RUN ORACLE
DATA
 Data Logging
 Export Process Data to Excel, HTML, SQL
• Production Tracking
• Engineering and Maintenance
 Pass Schedule Storage/Retrieval

 Automatically Calculates Pass Reduction

Schedules
 Automatic Slowdown/Stop

 Automatic Stop at End of Coil

 Continuous Speed Ramp - No Steps
 Automatic Slowdown to Flagged “Trouble
Spots”

Hold
Slow/Hold approach
Auto Auto has deceleration
Speed discontinuities,
Slowdown Resume
Direct takes longer
Flagged Area speed ramp
to stop
Length
Avtron Industrial Automation

METALS INDUSTRY

www.avtronmetals.com

Jeff Mason
Industry Manager
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