alignment

These days, to stay competitive you have to run multiple variations of material at increasingly shorter runs to turn a profit. To maintain consistent, high-quality output, there are adjustments that need to be made on the unwind through tension, alignment, slitting setup and possibly even the rewind.

In this hour-long e-Seminar, Ken Hopcus provides insight for assuring proper alignment of a moving web by focusing on key aspects of web guiding. He addressed the considerations of various guide-types, location options and provide guidelines to properly set up each type of guide.

Ken also will discuss specific variables that affect the lateral position of a moving web, including:

This is last in a series of articles on web guiding. Part 1 covered understanding web-guide accuracy. Part 2 explained how to properly size actuators. Part 3 described how to find the right web-guide sensor.