Choosing the Right Equipment

Wayne Kikos, design engineer, Delta Industrial Services Inc. said a good cost-saving measure is to add an automatic set-up feature to the slitter blade carriers. The process of changing blade positions was formerly performed by a technician using a set of wrenches and a rule. "Depending on the number of blades and the frequency of changeovers, this can be a very time-consuming process," he said. "Slitter manufacturers usually can offer a motorized system to reposition the blades from a stored program, or a built-in digital scale system to aid the technician while manually positioning the blades."