Our newest AbbottApp does several essential things that have rarely been done before in web-handling. It considers more than one insult at a time as a web goes through a web machine. Then if your tension control is not perfect AND your roller alignment is not perfect, both at the same time: no problem. We can figure out how these and other stressors combine to increase the risk of web damage. Do you run thick materials? Well then you have two additional troubles to consider: curl and bend radius. No problem, just enter in curl radius and roller diameter and BINGO, you see just how bad things can get in a hurry with thick webs. The next new and essential thing this app does is shows you how you are using up your total ‘error budget.’ We use a very clever visual display trick to do this. It is called bar charts. Yes, I know this is the joke of management presentations, but take a look and you will see how this is the very best way to present engineering information for this case. Finally, we do something almost never done in the web-industries even though all engineers were taught that this (or something even more advanced) is necessary for safety. That is safety factors. Check out Combined Stresses Going Over Rollers as a beta app and see just how easy it is to run because it requires no special knowledge. For those wishing a deeper dive just email me for a copy of my paper that explains how and why we must all do this.
A few admin notes for my followers. This blog interrupts the recent vlog sequence and is a bit early because I am totally booked next week being five days on stage at the AIMCAL Converting Connect event. Also note that my Web Handling school was sold out a month ago so that we may offer another this fall or you can also get the same trademarked Web101 material as video-on-demand or as in-plant courses. The advanced winding course, on the other hand, still has a few openings.
Finally some notes. The RSS feed for this blog has changed due to the new AIMCAL Website facelift, so update your browser appropriately. Also, I am now on Twitter so you can follow me at @DavidRoisum, where I will tweet new blog posts as well as other short industry events related to web-handling. Also, please subscribe to my AllWebHandling channel on YouTube if you want to get the vlog posts as they are rendered which is usually many months prior to showing on this blog. The Web201 app by AbbottApp helps you search these nearly 200 short clips if you have trouble finding stuff using the google or youtube search engine, as you likely will because they are total crap for this purpose. (See my paper titled Dead Trees and Web Handling for why this is so). I am also on Linkedin where I host a discussion under the AllWebHandling group. Sign in and get connected. For those of you who like a daily dose of unusual photography, be my friend on Facebook (David R Roisum). Some of the best of my 50,000 curated photos are on Flickr (drroisum). I also have created a half dozen coffee-table books on Shutterfly that I have made for friends and relatives. Or, you can just do it the old fashioned way, email me at DrRoisum@aol.com or check out my Website Roisum.com.
A few admin notes for my followers. This blog interrupts the recent vlog sequence and is a bit early because I am totally booked next week being five days on stage at the AIMCAL Converting Connect event. Also note that my Web Handling school was sold out a month ago so that we may offer another this fall or you can also get the same trademarked Web101 material as video-on-demand or as in-plant courses. The advanced winding course, on the other hand, still has a few openings.
Finally some notes. The RSS feed for this blog has changed due to the new AIMCAL Website facelift, so update your browser appropriately. Also, I am now on Twitter so you can follow me at @DavidRoisum, where I will tweet new blog posts as well as other short industry events related to web-handling. Also, please subscribe to my AllWebHandling channel on YouTube if you want to get the vlog posts as they are rendered which is usually many months prior to showing on this blog. The Web201 app by AbbottApp helps you search these nearly 200 short clips if you have trouble finding stuff using the google or youtube search engine, as you likely will because they are total crap for this purpose. (See my paper titled Dead Trees and Web Handling for why this is so). I am also on Linkedin where I host a discussion under the AllWebHandling group. Sign in and get connected. For those of you who like a daily dose of unusual photography, be my friend on Facebook (David R Roisum). Some of the best of my 50,000 curated photos are on Flickr (drroisum). I also have created a half dozen coffee-table books on Shutterfly that I have made for friends and relatives. Or, you can just do it the old fashioned way, email me at DrRoisum@aol.com or check out my Website Roisum.com.
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