Virtual Industrial Laboratory Series
4. Paper Machine Package
Web
forming processes represent a wide class of industrial processes with
relevance in many different production areas such as paper making,
plastic film extrusion, steel rolling, coating and laminating. These
are large scale processes, involving complex machinery, which exhibit
some challenging difficulties for the design of efficient control
systems. Web forming processes are multivariable high dimensional
systems which must operate subject to tight constraints. These
systems are a quintessential example of a difficult industrial control
problem and are therefore an ideal case study for a virtual laboratory.
