Provided that intermediate and final product characteristics allow, the heating temperature of the reheating furnace can be reduced. However, lowering the heating temperature will increase the rolling forces and moments, which in turn will result in increased energy consumption – due to increased mechanical and electrical loads – and will increase wearing off of the equipment. Consequently, in finding the optimum temperature level in the reheating furnace a wider set of factors need to be considered within a systems approach (Worrell et al., 2010. p. 93).