IWEB 2011 Conference
The Eleventh International Conference on Web Handling was held June 12-15, 2011 on the campus of Oklahoma State University. The conference, a forum for engineers and scientists to exchange technical information on concepts and innovations in web handling is held every other year and is sponsored by the Web Handling Research Center at OSU and its Industrial Sponsors; 3M Company, Bruckner Inc., Avery Dennison, DuPont, Goss International, Kimberly-Clark, Mitsubishi Polyester Film, Inc., Procter & Gamble and Rockwell Automation.
This year’s conference program featured two keynotes and three sessions of paper presentations.
Keynote Presentations
Dr. Günther Brandenburg, Program Committee Member of the SPS/IPC/DRIVES Automation Conference held annually in Nuremberg, Germany, and a member of the IEEE Industry Applications and Industrial Electronics Societies. Paper title: Advanced Process Models and Control Strategies for Rotary Printing Presses
Dr. Marko Jorkama, Research Manager for Metso Paper holds 10 domestic and 3 international patents which focus on the attenuation of winder vibration and has authored 10 journal publications and 15 conference papers on the subjects of winding nip mechanics and issues of winder vibration. Paper title: Winder Vibration: Causes, Defects, and Remedies
Best Paper Awards
Session 1 – Tension control, Tension Effects, and electrostatics: Dilwyn Jones, Michael McCann and Steven Abbott, Emral Ltd, UNITED KINGDOM
Paper title: Web Tension Variations Caused by Temperature Changes and Slip on Rollers
Session 2 – Winding, Lateral mechanics, and Wrinkling: Jerry Brown, Essex Systems, USA
Paper title: The Use of Conservation of Mass in Modeling Lateral Behavior in Moving Webs
Session 3 – Web Handling: Kevin Cole, Optimation Technology, Inc.
Paper title: Measurement and Modeling of 2-D and 3-D Web Feed Rates in Rubber Covered Nip Roller Applications
WEB 2011 Keynote Speakers - Bottom left to right, Günther Brandenburg, Technische Universität München Institut für Mechatronik and Marko Jorkama, Metso Paper, Finland with Keith Good, Prabhakar Pagilla, Web Handling Research Center and Karl Reid, WHRC Director.
IWEB 2011 Best Paper Awards - Best Paper Awards: Left to right, Kevin Cole, Optimation Technology, Inc., Keith Good, IWEB Program Chairman and Dilwyn Jones, Emral Ltd, UK. Not pictured Jerry Brown, Essex Systems
