AccuWeb
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Founded as a small family business by Raymond A. Buisker in 1984, AccuWeb has enjoyed steady growth by focusing on one simple principle: to perfect the web guide through innovative technology. Today, AccuWeb's patented edge detection and line guide systems are used worldwide and are renowned for providing superior performance, reliability, and value. While the company provides web guides for nearly every application imaginable, it has created a special niche by providing engineered solutions for the most demanding web guide problems, and under the harshest environmental conditions.
Technologies
AccuWeb, Inc. is best known for pioneering the development and manufacture of dynamically compensated edge detection systems. Dynamic Compensation set a new standard for accuracy by eliminating the web edge detection problems caused by environmental changes, process contaminants and environmental variations such as changes in temperature, humidity, dust and dirt. This new technology was patented in 1988, and has been continually refined into AccuWeb’s current PointSource series of edge detectors.
By teaming multiple pairs of ultrasonic emitters and receivers, AccuWeb patented WideArray™ edge detectors in 2001. These unique arrays have substantially larger detection ranges; an important feature when web widths change. Webs can be changed on the fly and no longer require complicated mechanical edge seeking devices. Today, WideArrays are available in both ultrasonic and infrared versions, providing up to 31.2" of detection range. The guide point can be electronically adjusted anywhere within the detection range. WideArrays are often used to monitor web widths while simultaneously guiding the web. Like AccuWeb’s PointSource, WideArray edge detectors feature dynamic compensation. Utilizing advanced infrared sensors for non-woven applications, the WideArray eliminates the air purge jets commonly used to clear dust from conventional edge detectors resulting in more uptime, accuracy and consistency.
For applications that require guiding relative to printed lines or edges of printed lines, AccuWeb took another novel approach with its digital AccuBeam® III which features automatic calibration; the microprocessor selects the ideal light, color, and angle to maximize contrast. It features a unique operator interface that displays the line as it guided to eliminate operator error and eliminate guessing during setup. The AccuBeam III guides both solid and intermittent lines, edges, and print patterns throughout the entire color spectrum.
AccuWeb is still the only company that provides a complete range of electromechanical actuators ranging from 150 lbs. of thrust to 60,000 lbs. AccuWeb systems are controlled by the compact Micro 1000® for narrow web applications and the Micro 4000®NET for both narrow and wide webs. The Micro 4000NET is network compatible with virtually every field bus interface.
AccuWeb's corporate headquarters, research and development, and central manufacturing facility is located in Madison, Wisconsin. The modern facility constructed in1995, was expressly designed for manufacturing digital electronic assemblies.
In 2003, a new Sales Support Centre was opened in Fribourg, Switzerland to serve the company's growing European market. AccuWeb also has sales and service locations throughout Central and South America, Asia and the Pacific Rim.
