Manufacturing Reliability Training Gives Maintenance Team The Know-How.

A large tissue manufacturer in the Midwest uses special vacuum reel spools on their 200″ trim twin wire Yankee paper machine. When one roll is almost complete, a new spool is swung into place on the backtender. A vacuum is created inside the new spool by inserting a hose into the vacuum flange. Once the sheet from the full roll is broken, this vacuum draws the tissue onto the new spool, which is already up to a full operating speed of one mile a minute.