accuracy

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 new one-hour e-Seminar will teach new slitter operators about the six critical factors that ensure a perfect cut (the science part) and how these factors change depending upon today's latest materials (the art part).

While it's components are pretty tough, a web guide's weakest link may be the actuator. This is the second in a four-part series of articles on web guiding. Part 1 covered understanding web-guide accuracy and how to achieve it.