Development of Virtual Training Platform for Tandem Cold Rolling Mill Using Data Science and Digital Twin Technology

Abstract

An attempt has been made to develop Virtual Training Platform for Pickling Line Tandem Cold Mill (PLTCM) intended to deliver faster and enhanced learning experience of the process operator by leveraging Advanced Data Modelling, Data Science and Digital Twin Technology. Virtual Training Platform has modules for virtual tour of the plant, setup simulation, real-time rolling simulation, performance evaluation. Rolling Simulation has ANN based Automatic gauge control model and DNN based shape prediction model. Platform also comprises of a Natural Language Processing based chatbot for online query related to process line. Keywords: tandem cold Mill; Deep Neural Network (DNN); Virtual tour; Automatic Gauge Control (AGC), shape Control; chatbot