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Reasonable But Wrong 2

Posted by David Roisum on February 2, 2012
Reasonable But Wrong 2
Orderly boarding of airplanes speeds up the process, or not? http://articles.latimes.com/2011/jun/27/business/la-fi-travel-briefcase-20110627 Don't be swayed by science by consensus and certainly not by hunches.  The reasonable ones are the most beguiling and perhaps need a second critical ...

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Search Effectiveness

Posted by David Roisum on November 20, 2011
I was surprised by a recent Wired magazine article titled Why Johnny Can’t Search.  I had taken it for granted that the younger crowd was comfortable with Internet searches.  Comfortable yes, savvy no.  It turns out that there is a tendency to trust the top search results withou...

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Flight

Posted by David Roisum on August 6, 2011
Flight
During portions of the EAA, the Oskosh airport (just 12 miles south of the airport I flew out of) is the busiest of the world, with takeoffs and landing rates exceeding the top three which are Atlanta, O'Hare and Heathrow.  In celebration, I would like to pass on a link to a video of a flying b...

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Training - Operators

Posted by David Roisum on June 30, 2011
In a previous life I was a teacher.  Specifically, I taught undergraduate engineering at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.  Though I was a mere teaching assistant rather than a college professor, I loved teaching and was better rated by the students than almost all of the profs. ...

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Training - Techies

Posted by David Roisum on June 28, 2011
Like many techies, I have little interest in soft training. You know, stuff like people skills and organizational skills. It is not that I don’t think those subjects are important, I truly believe they are as vital or more vital than tech skills in doing my job. It is just that I think that...

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A Boy Named Dave

Posted by David Roisum on April 1, 2011
A Boy Named Dave
It has been demonstrated, repeatedly and statistically, that our success depends to a noticeable extent on: parents economic status, sex, race, height and physical beauty, to name a few, though the reasons are difficult to tease out of the data and are subject to various interpretations and I will n...

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Robot Prowess

Posted by David Roisum on March 20, 2011
Robot Prowess
About 30 years ago I built what was arguably the first serious hobby robot, a Heathkit Hero I.  This robot had seven axes (five on the arm and two on the floor for drive and steering), sensors for light, sound and proximity as well as a speech synthesizer.  It may sound strange, but hobbyi...

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Celebrating Manufacturing - VW Dresden

Posted by David Roisum on February 20, 2011
Celebrating Manufacturing - VW Dresden
Not just trend setting, this VW car factory in downtown Dresden Germany upends convention and expectation.  This YouTube video speaks for itself.   http://www.youtube.com/embed/nd5WGLWNllA?rel=0
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Celebrating Engineering - Bugatti Veyron

Posted by David Roisum on February 13, 2011
Celebrating Engineering - Bugatti Veyron
What might you expect of a four-wheel drive sports car that had a 16-cylinder engine capable of more than 1000 HP (736 kW)?  Hard to predict, I think you would have to measure real world performance.  The result is a machine that can accelerate to 62 mph (100 km/hr) in a mere 2.5 seconds a...

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My Favorite Science Podcasts

Posted by David Roisum on November 6, 2010
Listening to podcasts on your mp3 player, or in my case the iPhone gen 4, is a great way to make driving, exercising, working in the garden etc pass more enjoyably, quickly and productively.  As a very long time consumer of audio products (including books on tape), I thought I would share some ...

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Dr. David Roisum

Dr. Roisum is a well-known authority in the area of web handling and converting. He has authored seven books, including Winding, Rollers and Web-Handling and has coauthored or edited several others. He was a technical editor for Converting Magazine with a monthly column entitled "Web Works." An accomplished professional speaker and instructor, Roisum has been praised for his skill at translating highly technical information into a common sense practical reference. Dave has been honored by TAPPI with their Finishing & Converting Division Award, Thomas W. Busch Prize and Finest Faculty awards and is a TAPPI Fellow. Dave received his Ph.D. from the Web Handling Research Center where he later became an Industrial Advisory Board member.

Dave has worked for the Beloit Corporation as a designer of winding machinery and later as a manager of research, and for Kimberly-Clark as a converting expert serving all business units. He is now a principal of Finishing Technologies Inc., providing consulting services to more than 300 clients who convert or manufacture: paper, film, foil, nonwovens, textiles and many other materials. He has accumulated much practical experience working in nearly 1,000 plants over the course of more than three decades.