METHOD FOR PRODUCING A METAL PRODUCT

Abstract

The invention relates to a method for producing a metal product in a plurality of successive process steps, each with an assigned set of manipulated variables, the method having the following steps: measuring an actual property of the metal product at a measurement site, at the beginning, during or at the end of one of the process steps, except for the last process step in which the metal product is finished; comparing the actual property of the metal product at the measurement site with a predefined target property of the metal product; determining an adjustment deviation for the property; and adjusting the actual property to the target property by suitably varying at least one of the manipulated variables. In order to make it possible to set the desired target property of the metal strip at the output of the last process stage within narrower tolerances than has been possible in the prior art, according to the invention the target property for the metal product at the output of the last of the successive process steps is predefined, and the at least one manipulated variable for adjusting the actual property of the metal product is selected from a set of manipulated variables which is assigned to at least one process step which comes after the process step to which the measurement site is assigned.

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