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Selecting the Right Tensioning System for the Application

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April 30, 2000, ... application, one of the four types should best meet the application requirements. Choosing a Brake Type Selecting the type of brake involves several factors, including application parameters, mounting ...

French Fry Fascination Brings Big Business to Bonar

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March 31, 2000, ... already established design criteria and parameters." Machinery Multitude Bonar purchased two Deacro slitter/rewinders to work in-line with the coaters. "To go along with these slitter/rewinders, we ...

Human/Machine Interface Offers Best of Two Worlds

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March 31, 2000, ... can be continuously monitored and controlled from a single HMI screen display acting as an instant window into critical operation parameters such as line speed, build ratios, web splicing, and run time. ...

Curtain Coating Technology Can Mean Big Benefits

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February 29, 2000, ... Hwet, does not depend on physical fluid properties nor geometrical process parameters but solely on the ratio of volumetric flow rate/width, Q, to web speed, U, according to the equation below: (See ...

Temperature control helps ink customers optimize performance.

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November 30, 1996, ... is a means by which you can watch the entire process," Zborovsky continues. "We look at temperatures as 'events' of printing. They're the prime parameters that tell us what is happening amid the ink and the ...

Getting the most value from your extrusion coater.

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November 30, 1996, ... recipe. Microcell also has an alarm manager to alert the operator to the status of critical parameters in the system. Quantum's research specialist R.F. Knor explains, "Real-time data logging and trending ...

EPA and printers join forces to evaluate inks.

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October 31, 1996, ... (DfE) Flexography Project. Together, the partners of DfE will systematically evaluate solvent-based, water-based, and UV-cured inks. Samples of each ink technology will be run to specific parameters ...

Canadian show highlights packaging industry up north

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June 30, 1996, ... parameters for environmental packaging is not compromised by a lessening of standards in other countries." Robinson adds, "Export opportunities for the Canadian packaging industry continue to expand ...

Pressure-sensitive line utilizes all-vector drive system

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June 30, 1996, ... and easy to understand, says Sherwood. "The software includes a supervisory control package. We set up the machine, adjust all the parameters, and then upload the parameters and save them. The next time ...

A rather narrow-minded view of wide web printing.

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May 31, 1996, ... art and more of a science," explains Jeff Lammers, VP of administration at Duralam. "The ability to set tight parameters, control the variables, work to achieve consistency, and approach the job in a systematic ...

Viscosity system saves ink and improves print quality

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December 31, 1995, ... is measured twice every minute, so there are no steep peaks and valleys but a fine sawtooth pattern. Viscosity is continuously kept within the ink manufacturer's recommended parameters for optimum ink performance ...

Examining trends in drives and motors

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December 31, 1995, ... which occurs in many flux vector drives. Where an MRAC controller uses a model reference and estimations of parameters to force motor flux and torque to the reference state, a self-organized control scheme ...

Tissue converter accrues benefits of AC servo drives

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September 30, 1995, ... card that downloads parameters and precisely synchronizes all seven axes. Electronic line shafting eliminates the need for a mechanical drive train by electronically controlling the velocity, position ...

Winders/Unwinders: Gettting Better Every Day

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August 31, 1995, ... says Shelton. Thomas Herold, head of technical sales for WTI International, Rockford, IL, explains that his company offers programs with menus and the capacity to save values. Computers store the parameters ...

Retrofit brings older sheeters back to life.

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August 31, 1995, ... Table 1 for a typical converting plant with a single rotary, fixed-bed sheeter. These parameters for a small to mid-size converting plant show a financial justification of $136,977/year for retrofitting ...

Clean air rules are changing & you can have a say

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May 31, 1995, ... how industry's early and consistent participation can have a positive effect on the exact parameters of a final rule. The MACT is, essentially, EPA's response to a congressional mandate to control the industrial ...

Printer responds to tougher environmental standards

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April 30, 1995, ... and within the budget parameters established for the project. "Wolverine's engineering group selected Johnson Matthey Environmental Products Group, in Wayne, PA, to supply the catalyst because of their ...

Building quality into the web printing process

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April 30, 1995, ... color standards. [] Job Save saves all the parameters associated with a particular job for use on reruns, precluding set-up of the inspection system. Job Save programs sometimes include a variety of ...

Traditions fall as prepress moves into electronic age

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December 31, 1994, ... if input requirements aren't anticipated at the beginning," Brooks said. Reengineering can help solve quality problems by pushing production parameters upstream, according to Brooks. In a reengineered ...