Paperclips Blog

This blog is aimed at informing, inspiring and irritating everyone interested in paper performance and non-destructive sensing of paper properties.

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How to Get the Best Out Of Your PSM-4

By | July 28th, 2016|Categories: Uncategorized|

How to Get the Most Out of the PSM-4 For Your Paper Machine If you are currently using a PSM-4 unit or are looking to install one, then this webinar is a [...]

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The Uncertainty Principle & The Paper Machine

By | July 25th, 2016|Categories: Paper Quality|

The Uncertainty Principle & the Paper Machine With regard to control of paper performance variability there are three issues that must be confronted: Natural materials are variable (you can’t take all your wood from the [...]

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Time is Money

By | July 21st, 2016|Categories: Paper Quality|

Time is Money In a previous blog I put the proposition (which everyone should agree with) that one of the major limitations on controlling paper quality on the paper machine was the inability to [...]

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5 New Ways to Cut Costs and Improve Paper Quality

By | June 23rd, 2016|Categories: Uncategorized|

5 New Ways to Cut Costs and Improve Paper Quality Traditional quality measurements make it very hard to properly recognise and control trends on the paper machine – this leads to variability, over [...]

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Does non-destructive strength sensing have muscle?

By | June 15th, 2016|Categories: Uncategorized|

Does non-destructive strength sensing have muscle? The question whether ultrasonic measurements of paper stiffness (sonic stiffness) can predict usual paper properties we report every day in our machine test rooms is one that [...]

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Hammer that Nail

By | June 15th, 2016|Categories: Paper Quality|

Hammer that Nail Here is an excerpt from an editorial I wrote published in the Appita Journal. The article was about trends in on-line measurement on the paper machine. Here are a few quotes about [...]

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