A web guiding system for converting operations has four main components:  

• Guide Structure/Mechanism
• Actuator
• Sensor
• Controller

However, even though we mention four main components, the web has to be considered a component of the web guiding system.

Intermediate Web Guides

Used before a critical process in the converting line 

In our previous post on web guiding fundamentals, we mentioned the terminal web guides. These are web guides that are found at the start or the end of the process. Their location is usually on an unwind or a rewind stand. As we discussed, their installation depends on whether the guiding system is used for unwinding a roll of web or rewind a processed web into a roll.