Preventive maintenance programs plus qualified operators go a long way toward extending the lives of slitters and rewinders.

By Chris Mc Loone

According to Darrel Spors, sales manager for Keene Technology, Inc., slitter blades have a definite lifespan when you consider the amount of material passing over them. Set-up and tear down also impact the wear and tear “more so on the slitter blades being repeatedly set up and torn down,” he says. “The more the components of the machine are changed out and moved around, the more chance they will wear and tear.”