retrofit kit

alright this is better with law school rolls roll technologies we want to show you one of our applications which is retrofitting old web guides in this case we have a North American and we just want to show you really quick how you know the things that we do in order to retrofit one of the North American web guides with our controller in with our actuator and sensor so here we're showing you the assembly as we have already done the retrofit of the actuator to the web cat assembly which moves the top plate where the rollers are at as you can see here's our actuator with its a threaded rod and it's already connected to the raceway here so we have actually replaced already the rest of the components of this and the previous secretary that it had so it's a very very simple application and we provide the plates and we provide the actuator and of course we have it connected to a motor driver this is a temporary murmur of driver just for the sake of this presentation so a complete retrofit for doing this case for this guide would be the actuator which is motor driver our control unit and a sensor which depending on the application that our customer has it could be a forty eight millimeter sensor or it could be a two hundred twenty one millimeter sensor so right now just to show you more or less the final application or all the connections already completed we're just going to show you that we can jog already with our control we can jog our our motor in position furthermore if I just place my hand to use as a material a possible material I'll just put it in automatic and you can see how moves the whole thing so there you go it's a pretty easy setup for us so if you have an old web guide such as a North American and you want to do a retrofit this is what we can provide you with a retrofit kit you can either install it or in some cases you can send us a web guide to us and we can do the retrofit for you so we hope this has been of information of use to you and like I'm in before if you need any help with retrofitting an old web guide you can contact us more information you can go to our

hi in rolls-royce technologies we keep making advancements with our products and I want to talk to you a little bit about the our retrofit kits for web guiding systems now our retrofit kits are available for most applications that are out in the market the advantage is you just replace controller the actuator and the sensors on your web guiding system and just keep the mechanical components mechanical components can last a very long time and they're easy to maintain but the this part is what's really the the the nitty gritty of a web guiding system and what we want to allow you to do is to have the most advanced technology in your existing web guiding system so for a typical what typical retrofit kit would be composed of a a control unit with a screen a motor driver an actuator and a sensors in this case what I have and what I'm showing you here is something that we have actually modified to our old systems they make them a lot better according to what our customers have been requesting from us for example in our in our motor driver now it's a quick disconnect so as you can see we can just plug and unplug a cable here and allows you to also have the same thing on our actuator now this allows the customer to select the size or the length of the cable that they need and it's on off-the-shelf cable so you don't really have to buy from us you can go directly to the cable suppliers additionally we have also come up in our sensor mountings we have come up with brackets that slide are easy to lock on to position very sturdy so therefore you just mount a aluminum extrusion or one inch aluminum extrusion and it's very simple to use you just turned the the locking mechanism and you can slide it into position water ever you want and once you have it in position you can lock it back up and it's firmly in place now these aluminum extrusions you can buy them off the shelf and you can buy them for any length that you want so these are very very handy to have now they are also available for our other sensor sizes for the 221 millimeter sensor to now the advantage of the 221 millimeter sensor is that with the flow these forty eight millimeter sensors you would have to move them if your web with changes quite a bit but with a 221 if the web width is within the sensing window of the 221 you can just use our application where you can adjust the the guide point either automatically or by just with your finger or by setting it by moving it in increments of a certain length so that's those are some of the features so with our actuator we can provide you with options as to how to connect the actuator to your machine now we can provide you with either clevis amounts on e on either side or we can provide you with a feral rods it all depends on what you have in currently installed in the machine we're trying to get as close as possible to doing this that's a drop in there might be some slight modifications but if we can you make it as a drop in it will be a lot better for you now another thing that we have available for you a controller that has the operator interface and a screen touch screen where the operator can actually do all the controls of jogging left/right or several Center put the machine in operation determine whether what the sensors are the controller also has up to two sensors that it can work with for the guiding process another thing that we have available for you now we have a team of sales reps all over the United States so they can help you start the process of determining what do you need for your system in order to do the retrofit retrofit kit for your current web guiding system in order to do that all you have to do is just go visit us at our website at www.ge.com tacked us there we have a whole listing of all our are all sales reps all over the US in Mexico and in Europe we hope that this can be of service to you and we believe that this application of retrofit kits will be of great value for your operation you

so one of the important features when we're doing a pneumo hydraulic retrofit is the replacement of the hydraulic cylinder and in this case we do that replace with one of our linear hyper actuators and we have actually prepared them in such a way that you can use them as a drop-in in place of the hydraulic cylinder now one of the main features is we can do it for any size as long as we have the dimensions that you want to do it that you want to put your the actual area in but at the same time we provided with two types of brackets on the on the back end and I bracket or you can have a closed bracket on the back end and of course on the rod end we would have a closed bracket so this is one way you can easily replace the hydraulic cylinder on your retrofit of the pneumo hydraulic system you

hello this is peridot a last go with roll-to-roll technologies now we have customers that have come to us because they have new more hydraulic units installed on their own their lives now they're using this new hydraulic units to guide the web now there's something a problem with these new hydraulics is that number one there are very bulky piece of equipment so they occupied it a lot of space in your line additionally you have all these hydraulic lines running all over the place at the same time they're very noisy and actually you have the risk of having leakage or any importance to that draw the fluid which can mess up your operation very bad especially your products another issue that we have with those is because the sensors are actually running with air then they have issues issues with the with accuracy and at the same time there's an issue of maintenance you have to change filters every so often and there's the issue of cost these things are very costly to operate because the motor on the hydraulic unit has to be constantly running so we have a solution for that with a retrofit kits for these for these new hydraulic units in your lines so one of the things that we want to show you today is before and after of a retrofit kit that we have done so on we actually took one of these steering guides and we can show we're going to show you how we did the retrofit specifically of the actuator a hydraulic actuator and we put our electromechanical actuator on it and at the same time we can talk to you a little bit about more how the system reduces the space required for this and at the same time how your performance will increase because of our accuracy that we provide you with our system so in here we show you the finished product of our retrofit in this case we have installed our motor actuator on system we replaced the hydraulic unit that they had the hydraulic cylinder they had and we placed a several Center sensor we have we would provide you with a motor driver for this unit this is the plate that we prepare for you so you can adapt this into the your assembly on the Raceway and it would make it very simple to reinstall in your opera so now as we can see we have most of the components of required to do an Omaha Dalek retrofit kit the control box the we have the actuator with it's a motor driver and then we have the sensor itself in this case we have a 221 now the 221 allows you if you have a let's say variations and width of material that you're going to run 221 is actually very good and if you have to 220 once you can do a center guide with it but what I want to show you here most most important is this is how we would actually have it installed on your line so in this case you have the 221 and then on the backside you can see this is would be the bracket that we would use to mount it on a rail that we can make it out of a one-inch extraordinary minim which can go any width that you need that you require and it's a very simple to use bracket it has a brake or a lever that acts as a brake and once you release it you can just slide the sensor easily in position and once you have it in position you can just close it back up so as you can see here are some of the benefits that we provide you when you actually do a retrofit with our electric electrical mechanical system in comparison with the pneuma highway number one is there is no leakage so you have no issues of having hydraulic fluid on your floor or on your product considerably less noise the only thing you might hear if you even hear it is the sound of the actuator moving mm-hm we provide better accuracy because we're using our high-end technology the newest thing that we have on the market which is a sensor that requires no calibration in very high accuracy in comparison to using a sensor that uses air lower power consumption because we're using 24 VDC that's all it is before you are using a motor that requires 220 volts into it so it's a very high wattage that you're gonna have to operate we have less maintenance with this because with a new mahalik system you need to do changes of filters and you need to do checks of couplings in connections so this reduces the cost of operation better control and more flexibility because we can put the operator interface in any place that you require we can actually connect our controls to a PLC and better yet something that in the future is going to be where the web handling industry is going to its data collection for usage in determining the your processor health or any other things that you might want especially with key like issues so we hope that this has been educational for you and will help you make a decision if you have a pneumo hydraulic unit just contact us and we can actually help you with how to do this retrofit in your and your operation believe me you will save a lot of money by doing this this this changeover if you want to find out more about our systems and about other products that we have you can go to our website WWE you

Roll-To-Roll technologies offers web guide retrofit kits for operations that need to upgrade their guiding systems. The mechanical systems and web guides can outlive the control Sensor and/or the actuator in their guiding systems we can provide options that allow you to retrofit our sensor Sensor control unit and actuator to an existing web guiding system The upgrade is easy to install and you will get the benefits of the technology that powers errors products Making your process easier to control For more information, visit us at www.r2r-tech.com

Hi, this is Pedro Velasco with roll-to-roll technologies in a previous video we showed you or we talked to you about the advantages of using a retrofit kit when you need to replace your existing web guiding system especially if you're a integrator or a rebuilder of machinery even an end-user. This is one way to save some money, so you keep the mechanical part of your web guide But then you use a retrofit kit in order to improve its application now You're getting the best in controllers and the best in sensors technology available at that time so Whenever you order a kit from us you'll probably get a Control unit which is clearly labeled and helps you in the orientation as to how the screen will be. So you will have the sensor Ports and then you will have on the side power connection the motor connection And if you have order an Ethernet communications option it will be there, too. You will also get a sensor or sensors depending on what your application Maybe even a sensor rail if you need so But that it's up to the user as to where they want to place the sensor.

You also get an actuator With it's a own motor driver and then a servo-center sensor with its brackets right. And then all the other accessories are required in order to do the installation. Ok so the first thing you would like you would want to do when you receive your Your kit is you want to verify that it it's in working condition I mean we do packages the best way possible we want to avoid any problems. So the first thing you do is you power up your control unit and you will receive a Connecting cable like this, but for the sake of this demonstration.

We're just gonna use a pre connected power supply. So you will connected to your power power right and then the screen should light up right and then you can proceed to Connect your sensor now remember our technology allows you to do this without having to do any calibration so it's a very simple and a very simple operation so Here you go, so I have now connected my sensor And I can verify if it's working as you can see on the screen, it's working so that we have done that step so After checking your the control unit with the sensor and just powering it up we want to then proceed to Installing the motor so when you get the motor or the actuator you will get an actuator with the mounting bracket And the motor driver okay? So first of all we just want to do is we're gonna do a wiring here Show you how to how you can connect the wiring, but typically we will give it to you pre-wired now There are some exceptions people have some special requirements And they want to do a wiring themselves, but will also give you instructions how to do the wiring. But in this case we're just gonna go through the whole process so first of all you would have to install the bracket I'm gonna use this The plate that we have for the demonstration purposes, but you would have to have this already pre-drilled It's a 4m 4mm screws and then we just Do the just put the bracket on and screw the bracket on to the plate so one thing that you have to be Cognizant of as we're installing the bracket We also have to install the servo- center bracket.

Now the service center bracket now only has one position it goes to this side right so you have to install it at the same time you're installing the motor bracket and so you use your 4mm 4mm screws and you have to install it within the brackets into the plate So here I show you that I have installed the bracket and installed the other bracket for the motor or for the actuator and the bracket for the servo-center As you can see I have the screws mounted here in here right something you have to consider you have to align the motor make sure that this bracket aligns the motor with the the Connection for the actuator to the web guiding mechanism right and of course the servo- Center. It has a one position only so and that will get installed in the next step. Okay, so once I have all the brackets installed then and I have aligned it then I place the motor and notice that I am placing the motor with the cable side on Opposite of where the several Center bracket is at right. I would screw this on and then I would get the servo Center sensor So in order to install the servo-center when it comes it has two nuts right and so you Put it through the hole on the servo-center bracket install the Locking nut and just Score it back on and one thing that you have to do is we recommend that you have the distance between the face of the servo Center sensor and the screw of the actuator An eighth of an inch is a pretty good distance that will work enough and you can actually adjust that by just adjusting the back Nut in order to create the space Okay, so now that we have installed.

Let me give you a piece of advice because there are certain vibrations on the web guides that is operating and you don't want the servo-center to Sensor to move we recommend that once you have determined the appropriate appropriate distance of the servo-center sensor Just put a little drop of Loctite glue on the back nut and then after you secure the front nut then before you secure it just put a little bit on that too right and that will keep the sensor in position. okay, so now that you have installed the Motor on the motor bracket or the actuator on the motor bracket and the servo- Center on its bracket Then we want to do the wiring. However we provide the driver Motor driver in this enclosure. Now you have two options to put places enclosure within your operation one is a you actually fix it to a plate or something where you can just drill a couple of holes.

We provide the Dimensions for this for you so you can do that that operation. You would probably recommend a m3 and screw on this. However We also provide the option where you can just put it on a din rail, so those are two things you can do when installing. Okay, so When we're going to wire this, it's clearly labeled we will provide you with a sheet where it gives you the locations of each of the wires.

However typically we will send this to you pre wired But in the case that you need to do it on your on your own we have provided this sheet And you'll find that on the p1 section, which is clearly label p1 you will have all the connections for the motor in the Connection from the control unit to the more and on the p5 section. You will have the connections for the servo center unit So before we start connecting cables. Let me give you a word of advice You may not you should not connect the motor Or plug in the connection to the control unit that goes from the motors From the motor driver while the control unit is on This will it's not recommend it so Always every time you can do some operation where you need to disconnect the motor from the motor from the control unit Make sure that the control unit is off Alright, so for the sake of time we went ahead and wire to this. This took us about five minutes to do the wiring but as you can see we followed the table that we have here.

It's all pre-wired according to the table and as I mentioned before never plug the motor driver to the control unit while the control unit is on. So as you can see right now we have we have our control unit off. We're gonna go ahead and proceed and connect the motor driver to it. Now that I've That I've connected the motor driver to the control unit I can proceed to put power to it so Now one thing that we recommend once you do this is just make sure in check that everything is operating so with the control unit on the manual which is when it's lit red.

We can actually check the position of the motor. Just move it around right so We can jog it to one side or jog it to the other side Furthermore we can check the servo-center now. Here's something that we want to tell you about servo- centers sometimes Typically we will send you this already preset But in case it s move or something like that you might notice that the servo- center might be off. It might be because It's in the wrong position, so what you want to do is adjust it.

Now you can find adjust it by moving the servo- center in and out to things you don't want to do you don't want it to be crashing against the the stem of the of the actuator and Second thing is you don't want it to be too far away otherwise it will just go to either one of the Extremes right so once that is set we are ready to then test with the sensor now when we're connecting the sensor to the control unit you have to be very careful because the pins inside the connector are very very fine. So the connector will have a notch and you have to align the notch to the port. So the port rule house will have a notch in there so align those those two and Just don't push it in too hard. Just align them and just screw it right on.

It will come in completely and connect correctly and as you can see right now, so The sensor doesn't detect anything right but right now It's in manual mode, so nothing will happen But I'm gonna check and see and yeah the sensor is actually seeing this the finger in if I put it on automatic Okay it will start moving and then I can verify the sensoring. I servo-ceter again, and it's ready to go when you're specing the motor we actually provide you that the motor comes with an m6 thread On the on the end of the of the shaft motor shaft, however We usually will you know we can work with you if you have another need. Also we can provide you with Different size motors depending on your needs so if you have an application that requires more thrust we can give you a bigger motor or the standard motor that we put in some of our web guides, or if you have a very small application we can use a smaller motor. It's all depends on your needs So all you have to do is just tell us about what your needs are with the motor and you know the connection to this to your web guide it can be you know a Ball joint that you know there's many applications that you can do with this However anytime you need something like this.

We just spec with you we talk to you and we we help you inspecting the The connection for your web guide. So with all the options that we have in motors All the options we have in controls and on it you can apply this to any type of guide Any type of guiding application that you need for example you can use it on a steering guide or a displacement guide even for unwind and rewinds and Just by changing the motor we can use it in any of those applications We we hope this information is useful to you in how to use or how to install one of our retrofit Kits now one thing that we want to emphasize is this is the same technology that is on all our web guides so if you want to see other features that we provide within our control units with our sensors you can look at our some of our other videos that we have through our website. You can see other applications we can do with our sensors. You can see you know how we can actually give you some other features and Make your operation easier to run so We hope this will be a help to you and just contact us or look at our website www.r2r-tech.com

All right, this is Pedro Velasco with Roll-2-Roll Technologies. Today, we want to talk to you about using retrofit kits in order to improve your existing web line or a production line. So one of the can one of the things that usually a any Integrator or OEM or a rebuilder of machines will face even even an end-user will face is that you have a machine, you have a web guiding system, and you need to replace it But one of the things that we found out is that you really don't need to replace the mechanical components. If you have a retrofit kit You will probably get a lot of bang for your buck instead of expending a lot of money on just a complete web guide.

Advantage of this is that number one, you don't have to buy an expensive web guide system new for your operation. Number two, is that when you buy a new web guide system sometimes because things have changed through the years then you have to do a lot of adjustments within your machine such as drilling new holes, adapting your web guide to that. Number three if you get a retrofit kit, you have the advantage of getting the best or the newest technology that there is in controls and in sensors. So what you usually get when you get a retrofit kit?

Number one, you'll probably get a sensor one or two depending on your application. You will get a control unit. You will get an actuator with a motor driver and of course all the necessary accessories in order to connect all this. So those are the things that you're looking for.

Now in an additional video will teach you or will talk to you about how to do the connection of all these items so you can apply them to your lines. So if you're an integrator, you're an OEM, you're a rebuilder, even an end-user one of the best things you can do is use a retrofit kit in order to get your operation into the best technology available instead of spending a lot of money just getting a new web guide.