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Web Guiding System Installation - Key Techniques and Considerations

This video, part of the Web Guiding Fundamentals webinar series, focuses on the proper installation techniques for web guiding systems. It covers essential elements such as maintaining a 90-degree wrap at the entry and exit of rollers, recommended span lengths, and the ideal positioning of sensors for optimal control and stability. Key considerations include sensor placement within the first half of the exit span, ensuring the plane of motion of the carriage is perpendicular to the spans, and the implications of bending and steering effects on web stability.

What are Displacement Web Guides? Principles and Applications

Displacement Web Guides: Principles and Applications

In this episode of the webinar series 'Web Guiding Fundamentals,' we delve into the intricacies of displacement web guides, a widely used and recommended solution for web guiding applications. Learn how these guides work without bending the web, their design principles, and why they are considered 'perfect web guides' with a one-to-one ratio of movement. Discover the importance of entry and exit roller alignment, and understand the difference between displacement and offset pivot guides.

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Understanding Terminal and Intermediate Web Guides

In this video, we delve into the basics of web guides used in roll-to-roll machines. We explore various terminologies and types of web guides, including terminal guides like unwind and rewinds, as well as intermediate guides such as offset pivot guides and steering guides. Key distinctions and common applications in different industries are highlighted, providing a comprehensive overview of these essential components in web handling.

Web Guiding Applications and Advanced Web Guiding Concepts - Single Edge Guiding

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In 2020 we hosted a webinar on web guiding applications and advanced web guiding concepts as a continuation of the educational series web guiding fundamentals. This webinar was the follow up on our seminar on Web Guiding Fundamentals, presented earlier that year, and commented in a series of blog posts in 2021. We would like to share some comments on the points presented in this webinar in the form of a series of blogs.

Contrast Guiding Application - Using a Continuous Edge Contrast to Guide or Monitor a Web.

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Another Option in Contrast Guiding when there is no Feature that could Mimic a Line.

In a previous post on contrast guiding we discussed using the negative space between straight edged labels as an intermittent linethat can be tracked by our sensor/camera and control system for web guiding applications. However, our system allows for other ways of using a contrast application that do not require a negative space that has characteristics of a line for the purpose of tracking.

Contrast Sensing Application - Guiding on Negative Spaces

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Contrast sensing allows for a variety of applications to guide or monitor your web. These applications help you eliminate the need for a printed line. Eliminating the printed line saves the cost of ink to print the line and the web material where the line would be printed. 

A contrast is any visible printed, embossed or laminated feature on a web. Most of the time, a visible feature is understood to be visible with the naked eye. However, it can include UV printed features that are not visible to the naked eye, but are detectable for a UV type of sensor or camera.

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