Understanding Rolling Process in Long Product Rolling Mill
Factors that influence utilization are maintenance outages, scheduled and unscheduled holiday outages, downtime for cobble clearing, roll and pass changes, excess billet gap, and other factors that create time when a billet is not in the mill. Good figures for rod and bar mills are 90 % to 93 %, for structural mills, the good mill utilization figures are 75 % to 78 %.
