FMS web handling equipment
Web Tension & Guiding Equipment Selector
Compare FMS tension sensors, electronics, segmented measuring rollers and web-guiding equipment for your machine and process.
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
Build the web-handling profile
Use the five-step guide or the quick form. Both use the same process details, force calculations and equipment limits to suggest a starting system.
Loading the Web Tension & Guiding Equipment Selector…
After the recommendation appears, Request Pricing With These Results carries the active criteria and preliminary FMS system into an editable Gauge Advisor contact form. You can review the summary before submitting it.
About FMS
Tension measurement and web guiding built around the real machine
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 is an authorized FMS sales and applications support representative and welcomes equipment project inquiries worldwide. Direct representation, quotation and local support arrangements are confirmed for the project location.
Start with the measuring-roller support
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.
Force Measuring Bearings
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.
Dead-Shaft Force Sensors
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.
Pillow-Block Force Sensors
Force-measuring blocks mount beneath external bearing housings. Standard, sealed, high-temperature, heavy-duty, and documented retrofit options cover different installations.
Selector inputs: bearing arrangement, shaft size, force range, environment, temperature, and whether an existing sensor must be replaced.
Cantilever Measuring Rollers
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.
Analyze the profile or correct lateral position
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.
FMS segFORCE
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.
webMASTER & winderGLIDE
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.
Process the signal and close the control loop
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.
Measuring Amplifiers
Convert the force-sensor millivolt signal into a usable analog, digital, or industrial-network value for monitoring, alarms, display, and PLC integration.
Tension Controllers
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.
Web Guide Controllers
Process the material-position signal and command a steering frame or actuator. Standard Ethernet and EtherNet/IP paths support local setup and machine integration.
Edge & Line Sensors
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
Choose the function before the product family
The same visible defect can originate in force measurement, the control loop, variation across the width, or lateral position. The selector keeps those systems distinct.
Force sensors + EMGZ
Use a mechanically compatible sensor family and measuring electronics when the goal is visibility, alarms, display, or PLC input.
Force sensors + CMGZ
A closed-loop controller uses measured tension to correct an unwind, driven process section, or rewind as conditions change.
segFORCE
A segmented roller separates tension zones across the web or slit pattern instead of reporting only the combined end reaction.
webMASTER / winderGLIDE
Material sensors, guide controls, steering frames, and actuators keep an edge, centerline, or print reference in position.
Why FMS and Gauge Advisor
Equipment matched to your machine, with application support
Mechanical fit comes first
Sensor families are organized around the roller and bearing arrangement, which prevents a force-range match from overriding an incompatible installation.
Stable force measurement
Full-bridge strain-gauge designs, mechanical overload protection, and purpose-built constructions support repeatable measurement in demanding production.
System-level integration
Sensors, amplifiers, controllers, segmented rollers, guide mechanics, material detection, and network interfaces can be reviewed as one system.
Authorized application support
Gauge Advisor coordinates application review, FMS confirmation, quotation, implementation planning, and ongoing equipment support.
What helps turn the selector result into a quotation
You can start with partial information. A marked-up photo, web-path sketch, and available operating values make the final review faster.
- Machine function, material, maximum web width, line speed, tension range or setpoint, and the process problem being addressed
- Measuring-roller support, shaft or journal dimensions, bearing information, wrap geometry, roller weight, mounting direction, and available space
- For guiding: correction location, edge/center/line reference, expected sensing window, frame correction, stand travel, moving mass, and environment
- Desired signal, display, analog or industrial-network interface, PLC model, control function, enclosure, cable lengths, and independent zone count
Quick answers
Before the final FMS application review
Is the selector result a final FMS equipment specification?
What is the difference between live-shaft and dead-shaft sensing?
Why do wrap angle, roller weight, and mounting direction matter?
When is segFORCE useful instead of conventional end-mounted sensors?
What happens after I send the selector results?
Manufacturer technical references
Review the manufacturer guidance behind the force-sensor, cross-web tension, and guiding paths above.
- FMS force-sensor sizing guidance — Sizing tool, measuring-direction reference, and calculator instructions.
- FMS segFORCE technical information — Segmented tension measurement, data sheet, and application data forms.
- FMS web-guiding material sensors — Ultrasonic, optical, and line-sensing choices for the material reference.
Ready to match the FMS system to the real machine?
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.