Access the August online exclusives!Additional original feature editorial is available in www.tappi.org. To access the following articles, go to www.tappi.org, click on the Solutions! link then click on "Online Exclusives. Access these features in August: Improving value through effective grade rationalization, by John Antanies, ABB n. 1. Among weavers, yarn for the warp. Hence, Noun 1. ABB - an urban hit squad and guerrilla group of the Communist Party in the Philippines; formed in the 1980s The multiple acquisitions mergers, and divestitures sweeping the paper industry all have one common theme: rationalization. Today paper companies are rationalizing grades and assets as never before. Ideally, grade rationalization produces benefits such as improved product mix higher yields, lower costs better quality and optimal financial performance Far too often however, repositioning repositioning Laparoscopic surgery The changing of a Pt's position during a procedure to improve access or visualization of the operative field, which may be linked to complications, as it changes anatomic planes of operation. Cf Laparoscopic surgery. grades on machines is poorly executed and the results are painful. Effective rationalization requires thorough planning and analysis. An effective plan must consider the following items: * Business model * Recognition of corporate culture * Grade and customer mix analysis * Rationalizing customer service, inventory and asset utilization * Asset evaluation * Financial opportunity analysis * Detailed trial execution management * Post-implementation value capture * Customer evaluation and protection Most mills lack the staff needed to fully evaluate each of these issues. Companies without the resources to manage this process should consider hiring someone with the breadth of expertise and experience to comprehensively manage the entire project. To access the full article, go to www.tappi.org, click on the Solutions! link, and open "Online Exclusives." RTOS (1) (RealTime Operating System) An operating system designed for use in a real time computer system. See real time system, embedded system, process control and OS-9. go "retro," by Karl Walby, Durr Environmental The oriented strand board Oriented strand board, or OSB, or waferboard, or Sterling board (UK), is an engineered wood product formed by layering strands (flakes) of wood in specific orientations. (OSB OSB abbr. Order of Saint Benedict ), medium density fiberboard fi·ber·board n. A building material composed of wood chips or plant fibers bonded together and compressed into rigid sheets. Noun 1. (MDF (1) (Main Distribution Frame) A wiring rack that connects outside lines with internal lines. It is used to connect public or private lines coming into the building to internal networks. ), particleboard par·ti·cle·board or particle board n. A structural material made of wood fragments, such as chips or shavings, that are mechanically pressed into sheet form and bonded together with resin. , and plywood operations of the wood products industry have been targeted for emission reductions by state governments since 1993 following the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990. Regenerative thermal oxidizers (RTOs) are the traditional method for destroying gaseous air pollutants, as required by the Clean Air Act. The aggressive exhaust stream of each mill process places high operational demand on the RTO (Recovery Time Objective) The amount of time a computer system or application can stop functioning before it is considered intolerable to the enterprise. It can be computed to be from seconds to days, depending on how critical the application is to the organization. . Once the duty cycle of any RTO subsystem begins its decline, other subsystems are prematurely taxed, control wavers from design set point, and permit compliance efficiency may not be assured. Continuous improvement in technology, however, can enable upgrades to the RTO design that better address the exhaust species for each application. This article identifies various options for the vintage RTO owner that can produce fuel and electrical savings, reduce maintenance, improve performance, limit emission of by-products (NOx/CO), and expand capacity. To access the lull article, go to www.tappi.org, click on the Solutions! link, and open "Online Exclusives." Fast-track cogen plant uses gas turbine-generator sets to dry fiberboard, by Ken Peters, Vericor Power Systems Sierra Pine Limited installed a new 6-MW cogeneration facility to provide electricity and direct exhaust for drying of wood fiber at its Medford, Oregon Medford is a city in Jackson County, Oregon, United States. As of 2006, the city had a total population of 73,960.[1] The city was named in the 1880s by David Loring, a civil engineer working for the Oregon and California Railroad for his home town of Medford, processing plant. The cogeneration facility operates in base load mode, powered by two VPS (1) (Vectors Per Second) The measurement of the speed of a vector or array processor. See vector, vector processor and array processor. (2) (Virtual Private Server) See OS virtualization. 3[TM] gas turbine-generator sets sold and supplied by Vericor Power Systems. The units each have logged over 2000 hours. SierraPine started this process with a thorough analysis of energy alternatives. The company realized that onsite cogeneration was economically feasible and worked under a fast-track schedule to bring the VPS3 gas turbine-based plant on line in just three months. By employing this system, SierraPine has achieved its goal of decreasing its dependence on utility-generated power, while providing a reliable, premium source to dry fiberboard. This article includes key detail on how the project was conceived, planned, cost-justified, and implemented. To access the full article, go to www.tappi.org, click on the Solutions! link, and open "Online Exclusives." |
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