摘要 |
<p>A method of rolling a metal mother plate (10), the method comprising defining one or more longitudinal thickness profiles; allocating (40) a defined profile to each of two or more sub-sections of the mother plate; rolling (43) the mother plate with the allocated profiles in each sub-section; after rolling, measuring (49) thickness of the plate at a plurality of measurement points (31) along the mother plate; correlating (51) measured thickness with expected thickness from the allocated thickness profile at the measurement points; and deriving (52) cutting positions on the mother plate between the sub-sections based on the result of the correlation.</p> |