Slippage problem was eliminated. It was observed in the project that the temperature loss was the major reason for slippage. To resolve this, work was initiated in two directions: a) to reduce the heat loss by installing monitoring on coil rolling time, idle time and coil to coil time b) Raising average rolling temperature from 510 to 575°C i.e. keeping the slabs hot enough so that any heat loss from the rolling ingot may not have any negative effect on its roll ability and c) Raising temperature though it had a cost implication. DOE was conducted to have optimized raise in temperature. We have a further scope for raising temperature from 575 to 610°C.