This comprehensive text serves as a complete winder training, applications, and product buying guide. It shows the reader how to analyze, select, implement, and improve a winding operation. By describing and illustrating the various types of winders, this book can help you determine the best winding method for your particular materials and needs.

From the Foreword: “...One of the book's objectives is to cover the shortcomings of other literature that initially touched on a few winders and winding methods but soon side-tracked on trouble-shooting and cure-finding rather than continuing with classifications of winders in depth. It features winder types from reel to converting duplex slitter-rewinder with `differential' and `lock-core' winding. In short, this book focuses on what I call the governing objective which is simply to find, employ, and control the right type of winder that can handle specific material properties in an effective and efficient way...”

Target Audience: Everyone involved in the winder process area, including engineers, production managers, maintenance managers, and other technical and production staff; also winder manufacturers and industry consultants.

Brief Table of Contents:

Acknowledgements, Foreword, Awareness

Understanding the Basics

The Plateaus of Winding

Winder Types by Concept and Industry

Winder Classification and Selection Criteria

Conclusion

Appendices