FMS web handling equipment
Match the machine architecture and process goal to the FMS force sensors, tension electronics, segmented measuring rollers, and web-guiding equipment worth reviewing.
Start with what the system must do. The selector then checks roller support, force range, wrap and geometry, web width, guiding location, environment, controls, communications, and other application limits before building a preliminary system.
Interactive equipment selector
Use the guided five-step experience or switch to the quick form. Both views use the same rules, published product limits, force calculations, and recommendation engine.
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About FMS
FMS develops force sensors, measuring electronics, tension controllers, segmented rollers, steering frames, actuators, material sensors, and guide controllers for converting and continuous-web processes. Gauge Advisor provides authorized sales and application support for the equipment in the United States.
The selector uses the mechanical installation as the first tension-sensor filter. Live-shaft, dead-shaft, pillow-block, and cantilever arrangements do not share one interchangeable sensor family.
The roller shaft rotates with the roll. A force-measuring bearing at each end senses the reaction while supporting the rotating shaft.
Selector inputs: shaft and bearing size, force range, wrap geometry, environment, precision, and available installation height.
The shaft remains stationary while the roller rotates around it. The sensor is selected around the dead-shaft journal and machine mounting arrangement.
Selector inputs: journal diameter, nominal force, adapter and mounting details, replacement constraints, temperature, and environment.
Force-measuring blocks mount beneath external bearing housings. Standard, sealed, high-temperature, heavy-duty, and documented retrofit paths cover different installations.
Selector inputs: bearing arrangement, shaft size, force range, environment, temperature, and whether an existing sensor must be replaced.
A complete measuring roller and force sensor mount from one side, simplifying threading and installation where access or machine space is limited.
Selector inputs: required roller face, nominal force, preferred standard or configurable construction, surface, speed, and mounting space.
Cross-web tension analysis and lateral web guiding solve different problems. segFORCE measures multiple tension zones; webMASTER and winderGLIDE equipment move the web or roll stand.
A segmented measuring roller provides independent tension values across a continuous web or individual slit lanes. It can expose baggy edges, uneven lane loading, winding problems, and localized variation that end-mounted sensors average together.
Selector inputs: full web or slit arrangement, width, lane pattern, desired zone spacing, environment, PLC interface, visualization, and wrap reference.
Steering frames correct a running web while electromechanical actuators shift unwind or rewind stands. Material sensors can follow one edge, the web center, or a printed line.
Selector inputs: correction location, material reference, sensor technology, web width, frame travel, stand thrust and stroke, environment, and communications.
Mechanical equipment establishes what can be measured or moved. The electronics determine how the signal is scaled, displayed, sent to the machine, or used for automatic control.
Convert the force-sensor millivolt signal into a usable analog, digital, or industrial-network value for monitoring, alarms, display, and PLC integration.
Compare measured force with the setpoint and regulate an unwind brake, unwind drive, intermediate drive, or rewind drive. Each independent zone needs its own control loop.
Process the material-position signal and command a steering frame or actuator. Standard Ethernet and EtherNet/IP paths support local setup and machine integration.
Ultrasonic sensors detect clear webs, optical sensors track opaque material edges, two matched edge sensors support center guiding, and digital line sensors follow printed references.
Problem-to-system map
The same visible defect can originate in force measurement, the control loop, variation across the width, or lateral position. The selector keeps those architectures distinct.
Use a mechanically compatible sensor family and measuring electronics when the goal is visibility, alarms, display, or PLC input.
A closed-loop controller uses measured tension to correct an unwind, driven process section, or rewind as conditions change.
A segmented roller separates tension zones across the web or slit pattern instead of reporting only the combined end reaction.
Material sensors, guide controls, steering frames, and actuators keep an edge, centerline, or print reference in position.
Why FMS and Gauge Advisor
Sensor families are organized around the roller and bearing architecture, which prevents a force-range match from overriding an incompatible installation.
Full-bridge strain-gauge designs, mechanical overload protection, and purpose-built constructions support repeatable measurement in demanding production.
Sensors, amplifiers, controllers, segmented rollers, guide mechanics, material detection, and network interfaces can be reviewed as one architecture.
Gauge Advisor coordinates application review, FMS confirmation, quotation, implementation planning, and ongoing equipment support.
You can start with partial information. A marked-up photo, web-path sketch, and available operating values make the final review faster.
Quick answers
Gauge Advisor provides authorized FMS sales and application support. Use the selector result to begin final configuration, factory review, and quotation with the machine details already organized.
