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Metal Pass Consulting is dedicated to the improvement of steel rolling mill productivity, efficiency and product quality, through accurate rolling mill process modeling and computer integration. For selected project reports on Metal Pass Consulting, see www.metalpass.com/consulting.

Metal Pass Resource provides over 30,000 pages of steel industry, particularly steel mill, related resources online on the website www.metalpass.com. Besides technical papers, there are also a long list of resource applications, which are the largest in the metal industry. They include Metal Directory, Software Database, Metal Dictionary - Tech Terms, Metal Dictionary - Translation, Metal Books, Metal Articles, etc.

Metal Pass Solution includes steel mill related software development, remote data collection and mill process improvement (for both Level 3 production scheduling and Level 2 production execution), and more. There are several suites of software programs hosted on the website www.metalpass.com.

CSRM

Cascade Steel Rolling Mills

SMS

SMS Schloemann Siemag

OSM

Oregon Steel Mills

SMC

Special Metal Cooperation

LPN

LPN (Thailand)

DFG

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinshaft

Nanjing (NISCO)

Nanjing Iron & Steel Co. (China)

(German Research Association)

Ipsco

Ipsco (USA, Canada)

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Level 2 Development (20 projects)

II

Level 2 Support (5 projects)

III

Mechanical properties improvement (4 projects)

IV

Mill Application Development (15 projects)

V

Productivity Improvement (4 projects)

VI

Rolling and Roll Pass Development (11 projects)

VII

Rolling Process Modeling - Numerical (9 projects)

VIII

Rolling Process Modeling - Empirical (28 projects)

IX

Shape and yield improvement (5 projects)

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Web and Web Resource (15 projects)