speed controller 30 to the field current reference 44 can be used herein with appropriately selected limits initial values and droop polarity in a gapped condition first roll 12 second roll 14 separated both speed control systems for first roll 12 and second roll 14 operate independently and the process controller 34 is turned off the droop controller 32 is provided with a manually entered value at this time when the calender system 42 operates in a u201c nipped u201d condition first roll 12 second roll 14 contacting the process controller 34 is turned on in order to provide a load share control for process 10 a this can be accomplished by setting the initial value of the process controller 34 the first value the process controller 34 sends to the droop controller 32 is the same value as the manually entered droop value used during the u201c gapped u201d condition prior to going to a u201c nipped u201d condition at the same time the process controller 34 minimum and maximum output limits are set at the initial value and can increase steadily i e ramp to the final values as discussed supra the resulting droop value is then applied to the droop controller 32 that also has an input supplied by the output of process controller 34 when a nipped condition is sensed when the calender system 42 changes from a u201c nipped u201d condition to a u201c gapped u201d condition the process controller 34 is turned off with its limits set to their initial values in other words the original operator entered manual droop value is used in the droop controller 32 the transition from a u201c.