Web Width Measurement and Monitoring: Applications and Technology
Web Width Measurement and Monitoring
Measuring the width of the web (or the cross-machine dimension…
Market Conditions and Anticipated Pricing Changes for 2022
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Roll-2-Roll Technologies LLC announces new camera technology for web detection
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Press Release - Roll-2-Roll Technologies LLC announces launch of new wide range sensor for the converting industry
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Web Width Measurement and Monitoring
Measure or monitor the web widths in your converting operation regardless of type or width of…
Unwind and Rewind Guides: Design and Installation Considerations
What are Terminal Web Guides?
Terminal web guides are devices used at the entry and exit of a roll-…
Web Guiding Terminology
Different terms related to web guiding are discussed in this article.
Web Guiding
Web…
Web Handling Terminology
Web
Web is a material that is thin, flexible and continuous in nature. Web materials are transported…
Pneumo-Hydraulic Web Guides
What are Pneumo-Hydraulic Web Guides?
Many displacement guides, steering guides, unwind /…
Web Position Sensor Overview
An overview of the web position sensor technologies is provided in this article.
Web Position Sensor Applications
Roll-2-Roll Sensors are essentially an affordable vision like sensing system which can be used for edge…
Adaptive Control of Web Guides
Web guides are mechanisms that are used in roll-to-roll material processing machines to control the…
Web Guides Selection and Installation Tips
How to pick the correct web guide for any application is discussed in this article.
Accuracy, Precision, Linearity, and Resolution in Web Guiding: Understanding the Terminology
Accuracy, precision, linearity and resolution as it related to web guiding is discussed in this article.
Web guides or web guiding systems overview
An overview of web guides or web guiding system is discussed in this article.
Web guiding system: Why, What, Where and How?
Flexible materials, often called webs, are used in wide variety of manufacturing processes to create…
Fiber optic web edge sensor
A web edge sensor is disclosed. The web edge sensor has a light source directing light incident to an…
Method for adaptive guiding of webs
A method of adaptive guiding of a web on a roller is disclosed. The method includes computing an output…
Hedging Point Policies for Multi State Failure Prone Manufacturing Systems
In this paper we consider a single-product single-machine manufacturing system, with the machine…
Modeling and Control of Web Transport in the Presence of Non-Ideal Rollers
In roll-to-roll processes the presence of non-ideal elements, such us out-of-round or eccentric rollers…
Adaptive Feedforward Based Control Strategy for Attenuation of Periodic Tension Oscillations in Roll-to-Roll Manufacturing
Periodic oscillations in the tension signal are frequently observed in roll-to-roll manufacturing due to…
On the Governing Equation for Web Tension with Out-of-Round Rolls
In roll-to-roll (R2R) manufacturing the presence of non-ideal elements, such as out-of-round or…
On-line Optimization-based Coordination of Multiple Unmanned Vehicles
The objective of this work is to investigate on-line optimization-based coordination strategies for…
Hierarchical Optimization Strategies for Deployment of Mobile Robots
In this paper, we integrate model predictive control (MPC) and mixed integer linear programming (MILP)…
A Hierarchical Optimization Approach for Cooperative Vehicle Networks
This research presents a control algorithm for the cooperative control of unmanned mobile robots. The…
A Hierarchical Optimization Algorithm for Cooperative Vehicle Networks
In this paper, we combine model predictive control (MPC) and mixed integer linear programming (MILP)…
Governing Equations for Web Tension and Web Velocity in the Presence of Nonideal Rollers
Since rotating machinery is used to transport flexible materials (commonly known as webs) on rollers, it…
Modeling and Analysis of a Rotating Turret Winder in Roll-to-Roll Manufacturing Systems
The process of manufacturing products using roll-to-roll (R2R) methods involves unwinding of thin,…
A New Laser-based Sensing System for Monitoring and Control of Webs
A new laser based sensing system for measuring the velocity of the web is proposed in this paper. The…
Optimal Control of Web Guides Using a New Fiber Optic Edge Sensor
This paper discusses the development of a linear quadratic optimal control algorithm for web guides, and…
Fiber-Optic Sensor for Web Velocity Measurement
The design and development of a new fiber-optic sensor for measuring the velocity of a continuous…
A New Sensor for Web Flutter Measurement
A new sensor for web flutter measurement is proposed in this paper. The sensor is based on the principle…
Interaction in Decentralized Control Systems: Application to Roll-to-Roll Systems
A procedure to analyze interaction in an experimental roll-to-roll system that uses a decentralized…
Modeling, Analysis and Control of Print Registration in Roll-to-Roll Printing Presses
Print registration in roll-to-roll (R2R) printing process is investigated in this dissertation. Print…
Analysis and Minimization of Interaction in Decentralized Control Systems With Application to Roll-to-Roll Manufacturing
Analysis and minimization of interaction in multivariable systems employing decentralized controllers…
Modeling and Control of a Rotating Turret Winder Used in Roll-to-Roll Manufacturing
In this paper, winding issues in an industrial R2R printing press using a rotating turret winder are…
Design of Delay Independent State Feedback Control for Roll-to-Roll Printing Applications
Control of print quality (registration) in roll-to-roll (R2R) printing is challenging because of the…
Model Reference Adaptive Control of Web Guide
The term web is used to describe materials which are typically manufactured in a roll-to-roll manner. A…
Interaction Analysis of Control Systems Employed in Roll-to-Roll Printing
Roll-to-roll (R2R) machines have been extensively used to manufacture a wide variety of consumer…
A Fiber Optic Sensor For Web Edge Detection
A laser based fiber-optic sensor was proposed in our previous work. The sensor developed was based on…
Decentralized Control of Print Registration in Roll-to-Roll Printing Presses
Roll-to-roll (R2R) manufacturing is a type of continuous manufacturing process extensively used to…
A Novel Edge Sensor for Web Guiding
Existing edge sensors use the concept of blocking/unblocking for measuring web lateral position. The…
Web Flutter Measurement Sensor
A novel sensor to measure web flutter is proposed in this letter. The sensing principle is based on…
Modeling Print Registration in Roll-to-Roll Printing Presses
Roll-to-roll (R2R) printing is a continuous process in which thin flexible materials such as paper are…
Design and Development of a New Edge Sensor for Web Guiding
Existing edge sensors use the concept of blocking/unblocking to determine web lateral position. The most…
Fighting the Fear of Change and Innovation
Does your company have a fear of change?
Innovation: Company Culture or Go-To Word (Part 2)
Innovation in Manufacturing : Company Culture or a Go-To Word?
Innovation. This word is prominent in most industrial websites, a go-to word in nearly every company…
New Web Edge Sensor Technology for Web Guiding
Faster speeds and thinner materials… these are two of the most important trends the nonwoven industry…
The Impacts of the Latest Developments in Sensing Technology
Every generation has a revolution and for years U-shaped sensors were the standard in edge sensing…
Optimal Web Guiding
This paper presents an optimal web guiding strategy based on the dynamic analysis of the lateral web…
A New Web Edge Sensor for Guiding Applications
An introduction to the revolutionary web edge sensor technology is outlined in this article. The sensor…