Invest in Proof of Principle
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1600 Lexington Ave. Suite 102
Rochester, NY 14606
Phone: (585) 321-2300
Fax: (585) 321-2700
For more information, contact: MCF@optimation.us.
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MCF Training Services Overview
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Optimation is a Proud Member of AIMCAL
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TJWA Alliance:
Optimation teams with
Mr. Tim Walker, president of TJWA, nationally recognized as a leader in web technology. This alliance offers world-class training, experimentation and consulting opportunities leveraging the MCF.
Optimation and TJWA offer several workshops each year, with subjects such as Tension Speed Control, Nipped System and Laminating, Web Handling, Winding and Web Wrinkling and Spreading. Our half lecture/half hands on approach results in training that resonates with users who can apply their newfound knowledge in the field.
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WORKSHOP SERIES:
“Optimation’s web handling workshop and instructor expertise provided the insight required to reduce the amount of dishing I was experiencing on my product line from 3 mm to 1.5 mm, well within our specifications.” --Allen Johnson, SWM
Check back for upcoming classes in 2013!
SERVICES:
Nip Systems Solutions
Machine Assessment Services
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Kodak Pilot Partnership:
Click for detailed information about our collaboration with Eastman Kodak Company’s pilot facility for prototype and scale-up. |
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Experimental and Analytical Services for roll-to-roll products:
Proving your concepts ... to enable your production | | MCF equipment includes:
• Thin Web Rewinder
• Laminator
• Narrow Width Rewinder
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Use our Media Conveyance Facility (MCF) to help you develop and improve your product handling.
| Optimation's 5,000 sq. ft. Media Conveyance Facility (MCF) features experimental and analytical web handling facilities, equipment and development engineering support, custom machine capability and training.
We offer you the flexibility to solve all types of web-related production problems, test new product features, characterize and quantify capital project investments without the cost and burden of running a laboratory of your own or diverting costly production time to pursue in-house experiments. Our configurable facility and team can customize equipment to client's product and process development needs.
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We Work with You to Solve Your Problems:
Production Quality:
- Tracking
Roller
- Wear
Tension (Bagginess / Strain)
- Speed
- Excess Waste
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Evaluate/troubleshoot existing process capability, recommend improvement options, model and test selected upgrades.
Example Projects
- Determined root cause / corrective action to eliminate fiberglass web lateral tracking issues and reduce roller wear in fiberglass coating facility.
- Provided on-site winding characterization of a multi-layer blown film process, followed by winding recommendations to enabled client to improve web bagginess issues.
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Proof-Of-Concept:
- New Product Production Characterization
- Capital Project Justification
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Product characterization, process system analysis and customer requirements, process machine configurations and specifications, detailed design, build, install and commissioning.
Example Projects
- Utilized Optimation's MCF to develop and demonstrate robust conveyance components and a web path system to enable wrinkle-free conveyance of new product in an existing production machine.
- Provided winding and conveyance machine commissioning for a new copper foil manufacturing facility for winding optimization, enhanced process understanding, elimination of conveyance defects, and increased speed capability.
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Product Quality:
- Creasing
- Wrinkling
- Breakage
- Conveyance Defects
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Evaluate and characterize existing product, provide product conveyance and handling predictions based on measurements and modeling, recommend improvement options based on lab experiments.
Example Projects
- Developed coating machine tension models to enable process tension optimization and robust conveyance for client's paper and PET webs; this allowed the client to achieve reduced web creasing.
- Utilized Tekscan nip pressure measurement equipment and field alignment tools to perform a machine assessment and assist in the resolution of lateral tracking issues / wrinkling issues in a multi-layer film conveyance line.
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OEM Machine/Component Development:
- Roller Design Characterization
- Web Path Specifications
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Analyze and model equipment performance based on machine design; test performance of critical machine parameters; provide machine specifications based on models and experimental testing.
Example Projects
- Provided testing data and video demonstrating the effectiveness of a roller manufacturer's unique vented roller surface.
- Assisted machine equipment manufacturer to develop robust roller design and web path requirements specific to their webs.
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Example Experiments
Wide Web Winding
- Interleaving winding - enable noncontact film winding
- Cardboard core torque transmission - low cost core
- Induction heated knurling - one-sided film edge knurling
- Film separation/peeling - new product development
- Layon roller study - high speed paper and film winding
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Roller Conveyance
- Roller surface - high speed conveyance
- Bowed roller - web spreading
- Web peeling - new product
- Anti-wrinkle and web spreading - paper, film, foil
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Air Conveyance Development
- Airbar clearance - reduce film edge contamination
- Reverser clearance - eliminate web contact
- Weave - minimize film lateral oscillations
- Hybrid turnbar/rollers - wrinkle-free product
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Narrow Web Winding and Conveyance
- Track off - elevated temperature on film
- Layon roller - high speed roll winding
- Winding product & process - verify predictive models
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Narrow Wound Roll Quality
- Roll telescoping press - roll integrity
- Sidewall gauge - roll straightness
- Inner layer pressure measurements - roll size
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Optimation's Media Conveyance Facility (MCF) provides research and development services for roll-to-roll processes, modeling and training courses for web handling.
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