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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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PFFC Magazine - Phoenix Rising

Posted by David Roisum on January 27, 2012
PFFC Magazine - Phoenix Rising
It’s said that bad news travels fast. Conversely, I’m hoping the great news that PFFC is back will travel at lightning speed. Many learned of the decision In late August 2011 that Penton Media had decided  to cease publication of Paper, Film & Foil Converter (PFFC). The great n...

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FYI on Upcoming Events You Can't Afford to Miss

Posted by David Roisum on January 13, 2012
Call for Papers AIMCAL's Web Handling Conferences June 13-15 in Prague Czech Republic and October 24-26 in Myrtle Beach Florida. AIMCAL's 2012 Converting School agenda were you will find Web Handling, Winding, Industrial Problem Solving and many other must-know topics.
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Industrial Problem Solving

Posted by David Roisum on December 11, 2011
AIMCAL’s Converting School has added my Industrial Problem Solving course to their 2012 curriculum; April 24 – 25, 2012  in Chicago.  I have taught this subject for more than a decade and it is the subject of two of my nine books.  Many students think this is the best and ...

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PFFC - RIP

Posted by David Roisum on August 27, 2011
PFFC - RIP
Wait a day before hitting the return button is good advice when you are upset.  I waited two days in this case, just in case. The owner of Paper, Film and Foil Converter magazine, Penton Media Inc., has decided to discontinue producing the print magazine and all its electronic media products. ...

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Posted in: (Other) Converting, Current Affairs, History, New & Noteworthy
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IWEB2011 Report

Posted by David Roisum on June 18, 2011
IWEB2011 Report
Que sera, sera (Doris Day’s movie theme song) was a new trend in modeling.  What Dr. Keith Good meant is that one can now  model problems in web handling with far fewer (boundary condition) assumptions.  This is now possible with explicit nonlinear FEM (Finite Element Modeling) ...

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An Old Ohm and a New Kilo

Posted by David Roisum on May 1, 2011
In 1894 Congress asked the National Academy of Sciences to define standards for electrical measurements.  In July they passed into law definitions for the amp, volt, joule, watt, coulomb, henry and ohm that brought the US into compliance with international standards.  This began a long pro...

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Posted in: Measurement, New & Noteworthy, Science
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OOP(s) and Obsolescence

Posted by David Roisum on March 6, 2011
OOP(s) and Obsolescence
I was talking about programming with my son, a recent grad from a robotic program in a tech school.  We could barely communicate even though I prided myself with ample experience programming in assembly language, Logo, Basic, Fortran, Pascal, C and several different industrial drives and contro...

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Posted in: Current Affairs, New & Noteworthy, Tension/Drive Control, Upcoming Events, Winding
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Converter's Expo - March 2-3 Green Bay Wisconsin

Posted by David Roisum on January 29, 2011
Converters Expo features converter-manufacturers who add value to mill rolls of paper, film, nonwovens fabrics and other roll goods. “These exhibitors make products ranging from medical disposables to tissue products, printed specialties, wet wipes, labels, tapes and much more,” says Bob...

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Slitting and Rewinding Seminar at ICE

Posted by David Roisum on January 22, 2011
Slitting and Rewinding Seminar at ICE
The perennial CEMA (Converting Equipment Mfgs Assoc.) seminar on Slitting & Rewinding Fundamentals for Converters is being held prior to ICE (International Converting Exhibition) this year on Tuesday April 5 in Orlando.  This is a chance to learn from and meet some of the best exp...

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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.