The web converter Summit designed and built for this application is a 20-axis converting machine that takes material compounds and precisely forms them against a substrate to create the final product, which usually resembles a soft pad and comes out of the machine as a sheet or on a roll (Figure 1).Ģ0/20 CONVERSIONFigure 1: Summit's web converter is a 20-axis converting machine that takes material compounds and precisely forms them against a substrate to create the final product. Our new machine uses two web-converting rolls as the heart of the machine."īuilt-in Functionality From the Ground Up
They were running material through it and moving it off-line and cutting it, and they wanted it all in one machine. They had an old rubber-mixing machine with big gear boxes that they'd bought used, and it was worn out and oversized for what they were doing. "They were built around brakes and very basic technology. "The customer really didn't have sophisticated web-converting equipment," says Russ Hubrich, engineering manager at Summit Machine. Summit's challenge was to design a machine having a robust, yet flexible control system without the need to program all the advanced functionality from the ground up - a process that could make the machine cost-prohibitive.
Summit recently built a high-precision servo-driven web converting machine for a developer, manufacturer and supplier to the electronics industry that was launching a new product but had antiquated machinery incapable of production of the new line. Todd Bauernfeind is president of Summit Machine, a machine designer and builder in Shoreview, Minn.įor Summit Machine in Shoreview, Minn., precision is absolutely essential as it engineers, designs and builds custom web converting equipment for a variety of industries and applications.
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