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Weights and Measures and Cryptic Controls

Posted by David Roisum on September 21, 2010
Weights and Measures and Cryptic Controls
Science advances based on an iterative procedure: observe, make working theory to explain observation, test working theory with experiments, and refine/repeat. The experiment part most often requires making measurements. We take it for granted that measurements have been standardized. This was no...

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Posted in: Design, Maintenance, Measurement
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Please Turn Off The Bells and Whistles During Startup

Posted by David Roisum on September 2, 2010
Please don’t start up a machine with all of the bells and whistles for two reasons. First, it slows the startup process because there is more to check out. Second, if you start up a machine with some feature, people will soon believe that it is needed. That means climbing over it, maintaini...

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Posted in: Maintenance, Problem Solving
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Startups and the Curing of Concrete

Posted by David Roisum on August 31, 2010
A rewinder overburdened with everything but the kitchen sink had an ugly startup; in large part because there was so much to check out. What knob among dozens affected a given problem? Which components can be ignored and which must be attended to? Poor, essentially non-existent, documentation mea...

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Posted in: Maintenance, Problem Solving, Winding
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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.