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Article: Rotary cutter is more accurate. (Machinery News).
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- Plastics & Rubber Asia
- Article date:
- October 1, 2001
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The highlight at GILLARD'S booth will be a rotary cutter that uses the latest AC brushless servo motors in conjunction with a fully digital control system. Gillard claims that this system has a Length accuracy of +/- 0.1mm, even at very high line speeds.
A key feature of the system is that both the caterpillar in-feeder belts have their own AC servo drives which are synchronised to within one encoder pulse per motor revolution. Another important aspect is that ...