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Maintenance concerns

A well-designed, quality web guide should have zero maintenance, suppliers claim. It should be a piece of equipment you can just turn on and expect to work day after day, month after month. "Today's electro-mechanical web guides are virtually maintenance free, except for occasional cleaning of the sensor, and a check for build-up of contaminant on the surface of the rolls," says Ed Orzel, senior manager of development for the guiding systems business group at North American Manufacturing Company. "The industry continues to move toward no set-up, hands-off systems that require no repositioning of sensors for web-width changes."