In order to improve the synergy between the rolling and shear finishing areas of the plate production line,Zhanjiang Steel's 4 200 mm thick plate plant planned and implemented a project to consolidate the operation rooms in the cooling bed area,and expects to take this opportu-nity to further improve its automation level.In this context,a process-oriented automation level up-grading and transformation program is proposed to carry out intelligent segmentation of the cooling bed area according to the process and control requirements,and better results have been obtained af-ter practical application.