A model framework for the prediction of defects in strip steel is proposed with the objective of enhancing the accuracy of defect detection. Initially, the data are balanced through the utilisation of the Improved Synthetic Minority Oversampling Technique (ISmote), which is based on clustering techniques. Subsequently, further enhancements are made to the inertia weights and learning factors of the immune particle swarm optimisation (IPSO), with additional optimisations in speed updates and population diversity. These enhancements are designed to address the issue of premature convergence at the early stages of the process and local optima at the later stages. Finally, a prediction model is then constructed based on stacking, with its hyperparameters optimised through the improved immune particle swarm optimisation (IIPSO). The results of the experimental trials demonstrate that the IIPSO-ISmote-Stacking model framework exhibits superior prediction performance when compared to other models. The Macro_Precision, Macro_Recall, and Macro_F1 values for this framework are 93.3%, 93.6%, and 92.2%, respectively.