During hot strip rolling process, short stroke control technology is necessary to avoid the fish tail and get rectangular ends. As for the problem of width excess of strip head and tail ends in Qiangang 2160 HSM, the setup and adaption principles of its SSC model were got by analyzing control program source code, and the influence of each human configuration parameter to the neural network SSC curve was evaluated by emulation, according to which the human configuration parameters and adaption parameters were adjusted in practice. The practice has showed that these measures reduced strip head and tail width deviation effectively.