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April 11, 2006
AWEB - Cooperative Presentation on Nip Pressure
Practical, applied web handling knowledge...
This is the intended product of the AWEB conference next month in Charlotte.
I'm busy getting my slides ready. I've got two presentations and a half-day class going on. Here's some background on pulling together the plan for the first presentation I'm working on. It's outcome of a nice three-way collaboration.
Presentation #1 - Measuring pressure in rubbber-steel nip roller systems.
What do you get when you combine precision diameter measurement with a thin film pressure sensing system?
I've know Steve Huff at Abba for many years through his alway informative presentations at AIMCAL's Fall Technical Conferences. Steve gave me a tour of the Abba facility, including their LMS 3000 precision diameter measurement system.
I met Vin Carrara of Tekscan in November when he was on a sales trip to the Minnesota area. I've know about the Tekscan system for many years and new it can be an effective tool for measuring nip pressure variations.
Sometime in December, we were planning the AWEB conference and I thought..."wouldn't it be great to see these two devices, the diameter and pressure measurements, put together in an AWEB paper." Well, a couple emails and a few phone calls later and we had a plan.
Each team member brought something to the table:
Abba Rubber, design and built the nip test stand and rollers and volunteered Steve's time and the LMS 3000 use.
Tekscan, provided the Tekscan sensors, software, and computer, plus Vin Carrara time and travel to Ontario, CA
TJWalker + Asso., mostly, I played Hannibal Smith to this A-Team, but also donated my time and travel to Ontario, and completed the data crunching and slides with my XLS and PPT skills.
The result: I'll post more hear after the AWEB conference.
Posted by Tim Walker at April 11, 2006 11:14 AM
