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Ulrich Jorgens, product manager, Atlas/Titan slitters/rewinders, Bobst Group North America, adds that “a preventive maintenance program increases the lifetime substantially, but qualified opeators have the biggest impact.”

As far as wear and tear, slitters by their nature tend to wear out, simply by virtue of the job that they do. “Slitters and rewinders are meant to run at high speeds and typically cycle often, which [creates] wear and tear on acting parts such as clutches, brakes, nip rollers, motor drive systems, etc.,” says Ivens. “The trend [toward] shorter runs can cause the number of cycles to increase, but with periodic maintenance, slitters/rewinders will not suffer excessive wear and tear as a result of shorter runs.”