ABOUT THE LECTURERS

PRESENTED BY LECTURERS WHO, COLLECTIVELY, HAVE OVER 120 YEARS OF PRACTICAL AND THEORETICAL EXPERIENCE IN THE DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF CONTROL SYSTEMS, ROLLING MILL MODELS AND MILL INSTRUMENTATION

Glen Wallace - Glen is the Global Director, Hatch IAS. His activities with the company started in 1991 with the design and implementation of shape, thickness and coating control systems. This work progressed into research and development activities contributing to patents in thickness control, mill vibration suppression and coating control. He has consulted to companies around the world on thin strip casting, rolling, annealing and galvanizing. In 1999 Glen established the North American operation of IAS and in 2003 he returned to Australia to lead IAS globally.

Ray Davies - Employed by BHP Steel for eighteen years, and having completed a Metallurgy degree and Graduate Studies in Control, Ray has gained extensive experience in the rolling industry. Projects with BHP included the automation of a hot rolling mill, two tandem cold mills and coil painting line. Since joining IAS in 1988 Ray has been involved in a range of consultancy, training, rolling simulation and automation projects including tandem cold mills, single stand reversing cold mills and hot strip finishing mills.

Tino Domanti - Tino commenced work with IAS in 1987 as a software engineer. In 1993 he completed his PhD in the modelling of residual stress in flat metal rolling. He currently heads the Research and Development group within Hatch IAS. Tino has developed models for thin strip, temper, foil and asymmetric rolling and has been involved in a number of consulting projects covering aspects from mill shape and profile performance to control system design.

Stewart Paardekooper - Stewart completed a BE (Hons) degree in Electrical Engineering (1982) and a graduate diploma in Computer Science (1985). His previous experience included developing plant information systems, before joining IAS in 1988. Initially involved in aluminium casting and coal loading automation and systems, since 1990 he has worked in most aspects of sheet metal rolling (steel and aluminium), primarily in the development of setup models. Projects involve automation, setup model and shape control systems on cold tandem, temper, reversing, non-reversing and hot finishing mills. His broader scope of experience includes offline simulation and modelling, consulting and mill audits.

Stuart Critchley - Stu has over 30 years technical and operating experience in rolling and finishing. Working out of Hatch's Canadian headquarters, his project experience includes initiating, participating and leading teams to complete major capital projects on new mill installations and on control systems upgrades. His interests span a range of topics, from roll grinding to thickness control, however tandem mill vibration remains a specialty. The optimising of existing mills to improve safety throughput and quality has allowed him to visit and benchmark plants all over the world.