Today’s highly competitive business climate makes it necessary for companies to keep quality levels a top priority. Since it was founded 50 years ago, Henley Paper Company, a former High Point, NC based printing paper and industrial packaging and equipment distributor now headquartered in Greensboro NC has put this priority at the heart of their […]
For Williams Paper, a St. Louis trade converter, the addition of a Maxson Model DFK 350 high-speed, dual rotary knife sheeter is part of a plan to fill the need for quality, precision sheeting within its geographical area. The family-owned business has secured a niche for itself by going the extra mile to provide small […]
It sounds cliché, but ‘Let us find a way to get your job done,’ is not just a Mission Statement gathering dust on a wall in the customer service department. It is truly the credo by which each RIS Paper employee lives. And a Maxson DFK Sheeter is making it a reality. The MAXSON DFK […]
Atlantic Packaging Corporation, like other growing and successful companies, has blazed a winding path to its present incarnation as a trade merchant of converted materials to the packaging industry. Getting here speaks volumes of management with a vision of the future and the will to respond quickly to market change and growth opportunity. Privately owned […]
In older stationary bed knife (or ‘dead knife’) cutter designs a single motor drives the pull roll section and powers a second drive train to change the speed of the revolver relative to the speed of the draw drum. Typically mechanical designs such as expansion pulleys, change gears or gear boxes were used within the […]
A good first step – where possible – is to have your scheduling department arrange sheeter orders so you don’t have to reposition or introduce additional slitters each time for each production run. Most set up time associated with slitting is positioning the bottom rings. Here are some time saving tips: If there are popular […]
The short answer is yes – by changing the pulley ratio between the cutter motor and the main drive shaft. But there are several implications to making this change. Make sure that the rotating cylinders, particularly the draw drum and knife revolver, are dynamically balanced. Operating unbalanced components at higher speed will prematurely wear out […]
Modern AC frequency drives actually generate “noise” – electrical harmonics and transients that can affect other electrical components. Maxson uses proven grounding methods to minimize noise associated with drives. Among the standard designs employed by Maxson in their dual motor drive retrofits: Inclusion of an isolation transformer between the main line and the electrical cabinet […]
Actually it is a lot easier to troubleshoot a machine that is controlled with electronics. Most new sheeters have a programmable logic controller (PLC) governing the operations of the sheeter instead of relay logic. Typically a dual motor drive with two motors, two AC drive and a motion controller takes the place of the mechanical […]
It starts with scheduling. Orders should be set up ahead of time so the rolls and skids are available for the job. Next, stage the rolls behind the sheeter so the operators are not waiting for them. An adequate number of skids should also be placed near the stacker so they are readily available to […]
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