Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a desired metal workpiece (134), the method comprising: producing an elongate finished material (116; 222) by hot rolling, wherein a first data record (112) is assigned to the finished material (116; 222), wherein the finished material (116; 222) is logically divided in the longitudinal direction thereof into a plurality of first segments (118), wherein the first data record, for each of the first segments (118), includes first physical data (228) characterizing the segment; and working the finished material (116; 222) using a processing process to obtain the desired metal workpiece (134), wherein the processing process is at least partially controlled based on the first physical data (228) characterizing the first segments (118) that are logically assigned to the finished material (116; 222).

Abstract: A method of controlling a continuous casting system for producing slabs from a material, the continuous casting system having a number of molds for forming corresponding strands, the method including receiving a plurality of casting orders, determining for each of the casting orders a set of slabs to be cast, sorting the slabs to be cast of the sets of the casting orders to obtain a sorted base sequence, uniformly partitioning the sorted base sequence into a number of subsequences, adjusting slab widths of the slabs to be cast of the subsequence, wherein, due to the adjustment, the width changes between two slabs to be cast immediately one after the other in the subsequence do not exceed a step value, wherein adjusted subsequences are obtained from the adjusted slab widths, transmitting control data to the continuous casting system for producing the slabs to be cast determined in the adjusted subsequences.

Abstract: A method of controlling a continuous casting system for producing slabs from a material, the continuous casting system having a number of molds for forming corresponding strands, the method including receiving a plurality of casting orders, determining for each of the casting orders a set of slabs to be cast, sorting the slabs to be cast of the sets of the casting orders to obtain a sorted base sequence, uniformly partitioning the sorted base sequence into a number of subsequences, adjusting slab widths of the slabs to be cast of the subsequence, wherein, due to the adjustment, the width changes between two slabs to be cast immediately one after the other in the subsequence do not exceed a step value, wherein adjusted subsequences are obtained from the adjusted slab widths, transmitting control data to the continuous casting system for producing the slabs to be cast determined in the adjusted subsequences.