Seminars For Engineers is proud to present:
Web Handling I: Understanding
Web Handling Systems
A Two Day Technical Seminar
(An all-new update replacing our Web Handling & Converting course)

 For registration information, please make a selection below:

February 12 & 13, 2008 - Charleston, SC
June 17-18, 2008 - Montreal, Canada (cancelled)
August 19-20, 2008 - Raleigh, NC
 December 9-10, 2008 - Chicago, IL

Web Handling 1: Understanding Web Handling Systems (WH1) gives you the process knowledge you need to tackle any web handling challenge. It will give you the tools to diagnose your existing processes or start right by using proven best practices for your new products or processes. WH1 specifically teaches the must-know areas of web handling including tension control, rollers design and alignment, nips, guiding, wrinkling, and spreading. The training will address these topics at all levels, providing rules of thumb and their basis in engineering mechanics. The extensive class notes include hundreds of illustrations to help get across advanced concepts.


Anyone working with web machinery will benefit from this unique course. This includes product and process designers, process engineers, quality, sales/service, maintenance and lead operators. The mechanics of web handling are applicable to any web-based product whether paper, film, metals, nonwovens, textiles, or any combination of coated or laminated webs. Understanding web handling is vital to anyone working with webs and web processes, including material suppliers, equipment and component suppliers.

Tim Walker has been a process development engineer for over 25 years. While at 3M (as corporate web handling technology leader, leading 3M's web handling process development lab and their corporate process technology management committee) and as an independent consultant, he's worked on wide, high speed operations for commodity products and small, precision manufacturing for magnetic, imaging, electronic, and biomedical applications. He's worked with films of all types, a variety of papers, several different foils, high tech fabrics, nonwovens, and many types of laminates and coated products. For processes, he's worked on continuous coating, pattern coating, printing, continuous laminating, flexible packaging, film-making, paper-making, foil processing, slitter-rewinding, and many varied and amazing web-based processes. A graduate of both the University of Iowa (BS/Mechanical Engineering) and the University of Minnesota (MS in Management of Technology), Tim is currently a highly sought-after consultant, active author for major industry publications, and technical presenter, and is presently on the technical advisory panel for AIMCAL. He is president of TJWalker+Associates Inc, providing services in web-based processes and technology management.

For registration information, please make a selection below:

February 12 & 13, 2008 - Charleston, SC
June 17-18, 2008 - Montreal, Canada (cancelled)
August 19-20, 2008 - Raleigh, NC
December 9-10, 2008 - Chicago, IL