Asymmetric rolling conditions often cause front-end bending in the plate mills. In this work, experiments were performed to study how different parameters influence front-end bending in plate rolling. The parameters studied were: the influence of different peripheral speeds on the top and bottom work rolls, different reductions, a thermal gradient across the thickness of the plate and the position of the roller table in relation to the neutral axis of the roll gap. The results were evaluated statistically and a good model was obtained. Finite-element simulations were made to simulate ski-end behaviour for the different plates. A comparison with the experimental results was made.