In this master thesis, the process of continuous casting is the basic of its assignment of tasks. All - for this work - important configurations and facts of this process are combined in the following lines. The first metalworking of a strand happens in a horizontal positon, whereas, at the beginning, the strand starts in vertical direction. The casting curve is used to reduce the height of the construction and in many cases, the mold is curved as well. However, to make this metalworking possible, a high degree of solidfication must be reached without very long cooling distances. Hence, the primary cooling starts in the mold and is done by water. Copper is used as mold material because of its high thermal conductivity. Without surface coating, the lifetime of a mold would be very short. Furthermore, the surface coating is repeatable, which expands the lifetime of the mold enormously. The production of a mold is very complex and expensive. Due to this it is of very great interest to expand the lifetime of the mold.

Schlötter, opens an external URL in a new window, a company which is specializied on the construction of electroplating facilities, developed an automatic facility to prepare the mold for electroplating with the aid of the Österreichischen Forschungsförderungsgesellschaft (FFG), opens an external URL in a new window. This process contains two main steps. First, the mold is pretreatet in different steep baths. Then the mold (cathode) is moved on a corresponding anode. A rotary table and a crane manipulater system are the main componets of this positioning process.