# Web Guiding Fundamentals

> Basics of web guiding, including why we need web guides, working principle, components of a web guiding system and design considerations are discussed.

**Last updated:** 2026-03-03

**Source:** https://live-roll2roll.pantheonsite.io/videos/web-guiding-fundamentals

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## Web Guiding Fundamentals: Topics in this webinar



- Web guiding Terminology
- Why we need web guides?
- Types of web guides: Terminal and Intermediate web guides
- Normal entry rule
- Main components of a web guiding system
- Unwind web guide structure
- Rewind web guide structure
- Terminal web guides design and installation considerations
- Offset-pivot guide or displacement guide design and installation considerations
- Steering or remotely pivoted web guide design and installation considerations
- End and center pivoted web guide design and installation considerations
- Actuator terminology
- Hydraulic actuator
- Electro-mechanical actuators
- Electro-mechanical actuator terminology
- Actuator sizing factors
- Sensor terminology
- Types of sensors
- Web guide controller and terminology
- Common web guide controller structure
- Open loop lateral web dynamics
- Closed-loop lateral web dynamics
- Web guiding performance
- Factors affecting web guiding performance
- How accurately can we guide a web?
- Web guiding fundamentals summary

## Related Products

- Web Guides
- Web Position Sensor
- Low Profile Web Guides
- Compact Web Guiding System
- Narrow Web Steering Guides
- Wide Web Guides
- Unwind/Rewind Guide
- Retrofit Kit

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## About Roll-2-Roll Technologies

Roll-2-Roll Technologies designs and manufactures patented fiber-optic web position sensors and advanced web guiding controllers — the precision measurement and control core of modern roll-to-roll manufacturing. Spun out of Oklahoma State University's Web Handling Research Center and trusted by Fortune 500 medical, battery, and nonwovens manufacturers, our patented sensors work without recalibration at ±0.1mm accuracy up to 760 mpm — typical customer outcomes are 50%+ less downtime and payback under six months. Headquartered in Stillwater, Oklahoma, our team of PhDs, controls engineers, and industry veterans extends the sensor + controller core into complete web guide systems including stepper-motor-based linear actuators (RLA, BLA, LHS).

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