Web Position Sensor

CASE STUDY: Web Guide Upgrade Kit for Aging Web Guides

A major printer in the New England region had several web guiding systems with failing controllers, sensors and actuators. We were approached by their engineering department and we offered them the option of using upgrade kits with drop in actuators. This would allow them to keep the web guide mechanism and they would upgrade their sensor, controller and actuator to the latest technology in the industry.

Vacuum web guiding

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Converting applications will typically require some type of guiding. It can be in the form of terminal or intermediate web guides, each with the peculiar conditions required to provide an effective placement of the web guide. However, all these applications are used in environments subject to atmospheric conditions. One of the most challenging web guiding applications deals with vacuum web guiding.

Negative Space Web Guiding - Consistency of the negative space

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In negative space web guiding dealing with the consistency of the negative space is the same as if we were dealing with the consistency of a printed line for line guiding. 

The line has to be of the same width and color in order for the sensor to track it. Any variation and the sensor will not recognize it. The same thing happens when using the negative space as guiding feature.

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