Live from TAPPICon 2024 - Episode 2

Strong attendance, special events, and a sold-out exhibit hall kept the energy high at TAPPICon, held April 28 - May 1 at Cleveland's Huntington Convention Center. Better Together host Jan Bottiglieri was in Cleveland to try to capture that energy at the podcast booth. In this episode, we bring you six fun, short interviews—here's a sampling of what you'll hear:

Brian Mock—President, Event Capture Systems:
"We want to reduce waste and delay... and we want to do that in such a way that allows the paper maker to increase efficiencies of the overall process."

 Heather Jennings—Director, Huma Environmental and
John Rudd—Director of Operations, IoT-MFG Company:
"Let's look at that entire ecosystem and then once we understand it, we can start reacting to it in a positive way."

 David Strobhar—Principal Human Factors Engineer, Beville Engineering:
" At the very time when you want the alarm system to help you, it's actually working against you. And then of course, the operators were getting blamed."

 Shih-Chin Chen—retired, recipient of 2019 Gunnar Nicholson Gold Medal:
"The knowledge of all the participants is just amazing. So you learn every time, from a very broad spectrum of people. You get pulled in!"

 Herman Quon—Sales Manager, Esko:
"Sustainability is what this industry is all about and innovation in the paper industry is what will sustain this industry."

 John Weiler—Sales Manager, Boston Dynamics:
"Part of the reason why I'm at the show is to talk about how mobile robots are creating safer tissue and paper and pulp operations around the world."

 Other resources mentioned on this Episode of Better Together include:

·      View Brian Mock's Chalk Talks on Near Infrared LEDs for pulp and paper mills.       

·      Learn more about the Center for Operator Performance that David mentions.

·      Try out Esko's oil viscosity calculator.

·      See Spot the Robot Dog in action.