Wire rods having various sectional shape are generally used in various applications. In a 2-roll shape rolling process, step-by-step rolling operations are executed repeatedly and the rollers must be changed whenever the sectional shape of wire rod is changed. The frequent changes of the rollers and discontinuous repeated operations are cause various shortcomings such as increase of manufacturing cost and reduction in precision. We had developed a high precision automatic wire rod manufacturing system to reduce these shortcomings in the previous study. In this study, we evaluated the field application performance of the developed system in terms of straightness, thickness deviation, surface precision, tensile and hardness of the wire rod in order to verify the feasibility of the system.

The purpose of this study is to develop the automatic manufacturing system for producing a phosphor bronze wire. Automatic continuous manufacturing system is necessary to raise the productivity and strengthen the competitiveness in the phosphor bronze wire manufacturing. For this purpose, the authors carrying out the design and production of devices such as raw material supply, drawing, heat treatment, winding and main control system, etc. As a result, we could product the 0.35mm of phosphor bronze wire with continuous processes.

Wire rods having various sectional shape are generally used directly in various applications. In the shape rolling, a couple of grooved rollers are used and the groove match the sectional shape of the wire rod. In this 2 roll system, a couple of rollers must be changed whenever the sectional shape of the wire rod is changed, and the frequent changes of roller cause rise of manufacturing cost. In this study, in order to apply a highly precise 4 roll rolling mill developed in previous studies on the shape rolling manufacturing process, the raw wire feeding equipment, 2 roll rolling mill, turks Head rolling mill, large heat treatment equipment, a steam cleaning equipment, a large winding equipment, cooling equipment, a tension adjustment equipment, designed and manufactured to the main control system. In addition, the problems corrected throughout these various equipments for manufacturing high-precision automatic rolling mill system developed by assembling more than six months and was conducted between complementary and testing process.