control

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 e-Seminar, Darrell Whiteside of MAGPOWR provides an easy-to-understand overview of the tension process and gets into some of the latest technologies on how to implement proper tension on a process line. He also dives into the question on taper tension as his company receives this as the most commonly asked question for their support staff.

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:

Dancer control is the most misunderstood type of tension control. This seminar will take the mystery out of how a dancer is really supposed to work.