Different terms related to web guiding are discussed in this article.
Web guiding is the process of regulating the cross machine position of the web while the web is transported over the rollers in roll-to-roll processing machinery. Other terms for web guiding include:
Many displacement guides, steering guides, unwind / rewind guides manufactured in the 1960’s, 1970's, 1980’s and 1990's were controlled using both pneumatic and hydraulic control systems which are often referred to as pneumo-hydraulic web guides. These web guide were really common before the mass adoption of the electronic (analog and digital) controllers and electric actuators. A lot of these units were predominant in blown film lines, extrusion lines, flexographic printing presses and even in paper converting machines.
Check out this video to see how easy it is to simply plug in and use our web guiding system without any type of setup or calibration.
The compact web guiding system from Roll-2-Roll Technologies is powered by the ARIS web position sensor. The revolutionary sensor technology enables the web guide to work with any material without the need for setup or calibration.
This demo video shows the capabilities of the ARIS web position sensor to work with different web materials without the need for any setup or calibration.
Web width measurement with ARIS web position sensor from Roll-2-Roll Technologies is shown in this video. The capabilities of the sensor include both web width measurement and monitoring.
ARIS Web Position Sensor can automatically detect any material without the need for calibration. This video shows the sensor capabilities, such as accuracy, precision, linearity, with four materials.
Roll-2-Roll Technologies shows the latest in web guiding equipment. Watch this video for an overview of our web guiding system and sensor's capabilities.
The performance of the compact web guiding system with a challenging porous web, burlap web is shown in this video.
Roll-2-Roll Technologies web guiding system uses a revolutionary fiber optic web sensing technology to accurately measure web position. In this video, several speeds and several disturbance frequencies are introduced to evaluate the performance of the web guide for a sinusoidal disturbance commonly seen in web lines.