i-Web Puts the Finishing Touches on Modular Web Finishing Systems for Commercial Printing

System maintenance for i-Web machines has been vastly improved since implementing EtherCAT. “There has been at least a 50 percent reduction in the time required for troubleshooting since moving to EtherCAT and applying remote maintenance systems,” Williams added. “We are able to communicate to any auxiliary or plant production system without complex secondary infrastructure. Also, EtherCAT inherently includes a great wealth of diagnostic functions, such as breaking point detection, and there are no bandwidth limitations.”