Process control system and operating method therefor

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12442086-B2
Application number	US-202117799839-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 18, 2021
Priority date	Feb 18, 2020
Publication date	Oct 14, 2025
Grant date	Oct 14, 2025

Abstract

A process control system according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises: a first system for generating thickness information about an internal defect layer included in a carbon steel product; and a second system which receives the thickness information about the internal defect layer from the first system through a network, and which controls an etching process for removing at least a part of the internal defect layer from the carbon steel product by using the thickness information about the internal defect layer, wherein the first system provides the second system with a calculation module necessary for the second system to control the etching process, and the second system provides the first system with the information necessary for the first system to update the calculation module.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A process control system comprising:
a storage device storing a calculation module generating thickness information about an internal defect layer included in a carbon steel product, based on at least one of a component, a cooling rate, a phase fraction, or a temperature of the carbon steel product;
a communication unit connected to a network; and
a processor transmitting at least one of the thickness information about the internal defect layer or control data for controlling an etching process removing at least a portion of the internal defect layer, to an external server controlling the etching process, through the communication unit;
wherein the calculation module comprises a first module calculating a phase fraction before winding the carbon steel product,
wherein the processor compares a phase fraction measured in the carbon steel product, and a phase fraction calculated by the first module from at least one of the temperature of the carbon steel product or the component of the carbon steel product, to train the first module.

2. A process control system comprising:
a storage device storing a calculation module generating thickness information about an internal defect layer included in a carbon steel product, based on at least one of a component, a cooling rate, a phase fraction, or a temperature of the carbon steel product;
a communication unit connected to a network; and
a processor transmitting at least one of the thickness information about the internal defect layer or control data for controlling an etching process removing at least a portion of the internal defect layer, to an external server controlling the etching process, through the communication unit;
wherein the calculation module comprises a first module calculating a phase fraction before winding the carbon steel product, a second module calculating a change in temperature of the carbon steel product, and a third module calculating a thickness of the internal defect layer included in the carbon steel product,
wherein the processor compares a thickness of the internal defect layer calculated by the third module using at least one of a change in temperature calculated according to the elapsed time after winding the carbon steel product, the component of the carbon steel product, or an oxygen partial pressure around the carbon steel product, and a thickness of the internal defect layer measured from the carbon steel product, to train the third module,
wherein the third module calculates a thickness of the internal defect layer in each of a plurality of regions distinguished in a length direction of the carbon steel product.

3. A process control system comprising:
a storage device storing a calculation module generating thickness information about an internal defect layer included in a carbon steel product, based on at least one of a component, a cooling rate, a phase fraction, or a temperature of the carbon steel product;
a communication unit connected to a network; and
a processor transmitting at least one of the thickness information about the internal defect layer or control data for controlling an etching process removing at least a portion of the internal defect layer, to an external server controlling the etching process, through the communication unit;
wherein the calculation module comprises a first module calculating a phase fraction before winding the carbon steel product, a second module calculating a change in temperature of the carbon steel product, a third module calculating a thickness of the internal defect layer included in the carbon steel product, a fourth module calculating a thickness of the internal defect layer to be removed in the etching process, based on the control data, and a fifth module generating the control data,
wherein the processor compares a thickness of the internal defect layer calculated by the fourth module using the control data measured by the external server from an etching device performing the etching process, and a thickness of the residual internal defect layer measured from the pickled carbon steel product on which the etching process is completed, to train the calculation module.

Assignees

• Posco

Inventors

• Park Kyong-Su
• Lee Jung-Hyeung
• Kim Chon-Kue
• Park Hyoung-Kuk
• Kim Deuk-Jung

Classifications

• G05B2219/32252

  Scheduling production, machining, job shop · CPC title

• G05B19/41865 Primary

  characterised by job scheduling, process planning, material flow · CPC title

• C23G3/025

  Details of the apparatus, e.g. linings or sealing means · CPC title

• C23F1/28

  for etching iron group metals · CPC title

• Y02P90/02

  Total factory control, e.g. smart factories, flexible manufacturing systems [FMS] or integrated manufacturing systems [IMS] · CPC title