i-Web Puts the Finishing Touches on Modular Web Finishing Systems for Commercial Printing

Untangling a web of aging servo technology
While i-Web has been quite successful implementing advanced servo drive technology in its finishing systems for much of the company’s history, some limiting factors started to become apparent in 2008. “We learned that the servo system we used at the time was limited in the number of axes we could control individually, plus we had to manage different fieldbus systems for I/O and motion,” Bob Williams, president of i-Web explained. “Since we manufacture very long production lines with many dozens of high precision motion axes, the inefficiencies ultimately became too much to bear.”