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Sheet and film processes are a wide class of industrially important processes which include coating and laminating applications (e.g., pharmaceutical or food packaging), papermaking, polymer film extrusion, sheet metal rolling, and plate glass manufacture. Sheet and film processes are primary in the photographic, magnetic and optical memory, electronic, pulp and paper, polymer, metals, and adhesive industries. Better control for these processes can mean significant reductions in raw materials consumption, greater production rates for existing equipment, improved product quality, elimination of product defects and/or rejects, and reduced energy consumption [12, 353, 354].
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Featherstone, A.P., VanAntwerp, J.G., Braatz, R.D. (2000). Sheet and Film Processes. In: Identification and Control of Sheet and Film Processes. Advances in Industrial Control. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0413-1_1
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