How to Drive a Winding Roll
What is the best way to drive a winding roll? You have three choices: from the surface, from the center, or both....
Driving Performance
Mondi Packaging Heerlen (formerly Akrosil Europe) is a vibrant example of how change and the subsequent growth it can bring is critical to a company's...
What's Driving Your Operation
Performance, safety, and user-friendly are just a few of the buzzwords coming up in conversations about today’s drive controls....
Tolerance = Tight
Retrofitting servo drives on its narrow web presses gives Discount Labels the ultimate in precision and control....
Embedded Control
Drives and controllers come together to meet user demands for high performance, greater flexibility, and cost-effective control....
Just Rolling Along
Optimize production rates and control costs with a rolling ring linear driver system....
Minimize Slip of AC Induction Motors
The AC induction motor often is referred to as the workhorse of the industry, but there are inherent limitations of the AC induction motor—no constant speed and no speed control....
Servo Savings
Ward/Kraft, a private, nationally known manufacturer of business forms, labels, and documents, also manufactures all its own machinery in-house. Five years ago, the company conducted a cost/benefit analysis comparing line-shafted and servo driven machines....
KidderComexi Demos "True" Direct Drive
KidderComexi welcomed more than 125 guests to view its FP 1808 Direct Drive gearless press this spring. Held April 23–25, 2002, at KidderComexi in Agawam, MA, the open house demonstrated what the company calls the "first true gearless press on the market, featuring "zero transmission error" technology....
Direct Answers Drive Presses
A direct answer, typically, leads to greater clarity more quickly. I want Italian, usually leads to speedier appetite satisfaction than I don't know or...
Getting Off to a Smooth Start with a New Coater
With a combined 50 years of experience in the converting industry, William R. Arndt and Michael R. Nowak decided to start their own coating business,...
Pressure-sensitive line utilizes all-vector drive system
A new MagneTek AC drive gives Kanzaki Specialty Papers the chance to evaluate it against DC units, and the results make AC look good.Kanzaki Specialty...
Examining trends in drives and motors
AC technology is clearly the wave of the future, but its eventual displacement of DC technology is still a long way off. And what about brushless DC?...
Tissue converter accrues benefits of AC servo drives
Wepa & Co., a German tissue converter, discovers firsthand the advantages afforded by electronic line shafting on its new C.G. Bretting converting machinery....
