The LAP CROPTIMIZER^® is a special measuring gauge to measure the outer geometry of plates behind the exit of the hot leveller.

Width, length and flatness constitute the complete profile of the plates, including the shapes of the head and tail crop. Other shape anomalies like saber, necking and wedges are captured as well.

The plate geometry measurements determine whether the pre-calculated finished plates can be obtained from the raw plates. The location of a segmenting cut, the length and position of a material sample, the crop shapes, and the lengths of head and tail crop get calculated and displayed. All of these results are used for further optimization of the slab size computation.

The measurement system continuously archives the measurement data of all plates in a database, providing traceability of all sequences in the process chain.