Aspects of the present invention provide methods, systems, and/or the like for: (1) receiving first imaging data from a first imaging device, the first imaging data comprising infrared imaging data for at least a first portion of an article of manufacture during a manufacturing process; (2) deriving moisture profile data from the infrared imaging data the infrared imaging data; and (3) providing the moisture profile data to a quality control system for use in cross-direction and machine-direction control. In some aspects, the first imaging device may be placed in any suitable location along a papermaking or other manufacturing process to provide real-time, full-width moisture profiles of a paper web at any location in the process. They system may be utilized at papermaking startup and implemented to optimize paper machine dewatering on a component-by-component basis.

The present disclosure is directed toward a process for adjusting a papermaking process for producing parent rolls of convolutely wound web material having a machine direction (MD) and a cross-machine direction (CD) coplanar and orthogonal thereto that improves the characteristics of the parent rolls of wound web material to improve downstream convertability.

The present disclosure is directed toward a process for adjusting a papermaking process for producing parent rolls of convolutely wound web material having a machine direction (MD) and a cross-machine direction (CD) coplanar and orthogonal thereto that improves the characteristics of the parent rolls of wound web material to improve downstream convertability.

An evaluating system of paper manufacturing includes an evaluation apparatus of paper manufacturing and a fiber analysis device. The evaluation apparatus of paper manufacturing includes a database, an input unit, a processing unit, and a communication interface. The database stores a plurality of paper manufacturing parameters, a paper manufacturing corresponding function, and a paper forming corresponding function. The input unit is configured to receive an input related to the paper manufacturing parameters. The processing unit is electrically connected to the database and is configured to generate a suggested manufacturing recipe by using the paper forming corresponding function and the paper manufacturing corresponding function according to the input. The fiber analysis device is electrically or communicatively connected to the evaluation apparatus of paper manufacturing. The fiber analysis device is configured to analyze one or more fiber materials, a single-layer paper, and a paper product.

Provided is a method of managing waste paper recycling information in a waste paper recycling system. The waste paper recycling system includes a management server, a waste paper recycling apparatus, and a shredder. The shredder measures an amount of paper fragments produced when shredding waste paper, and transmits this paper fragment amount to the management server. The waste paper recycling apparatus recycles the paper fragments produced by the shredder into each sheet, measures an amount of the sheets produced through the recycling, and transmits this produced amount of the sheets to the management server. The management server receives the paper fragment amount and the produced amount. Based on at least one of the paper fragment amount or the produced amount, the management server generates user notification information. The management server transmits the user notification information.

Systems and methods are disclosed herein for proactive intervention in an industrial process involving a defoamer composition. Learning models are iteratively trained using historical input data sets comprising directly measured variables from the industrial process and correlations between combinations of the input data and respective process states. For a current input data set associated with the industrial process, and responsive to detected process attributes, an intervention event is determined with respect to at least a first defoamer component in a current composition. Models are utilized to predict, responsive to the intervention event, changes in target values within a specified range of target values for other components in the current composition and/or for directly measured variables as corresponding with a specified process state. Automatic control is performed for respective actuators to produce a new defoamer composition, and as needed to other actuators for the directly measured variables.

An apparatus for measuring flowing suspension includes a radiation source that directs wave motion to the suspension, a flow causing particles of the suspension to be sorted by size. A measuring arrangement measures first values of a first parameter of the wave motion interacted with the suspension at a first wavelength band of the wave motion, and measures second values of at least one of the following: a second parameter of the wave motion interacted with the suspension, and the first parameter of the wave motion interacted with the suspension at a second wavelength band of the motion, the measurement of the first and second values being synchronized. The arrangement forms at least one comparison being configured to relate to one of the first and one of the second values, and forms a distribution with at least one of first values as a function of one of the comparisons.

A method for anomaly detection on a doctor blade of a papermaking machine includes obtaining doctor blade-related data, wherein the doctor blade-related data includes working condition data, status monitoring data, and design parameter data of the doctor blade, performing a predetermined data pre-processing on the doctor blade-related data to obtain a pre-processed data set, wherein the pre-processed data set includes processed data respectively corresponding to the working condition data, the status monitoring data, and the design parameter data; performing a predetermined feature extraction on the pre-processed data set, and fusing extracted features to obtain fused feature data; and analyzing the fused feature data based on different anomaly detection processes respectively, to perform a comprehensive anomaly detection on the doctor blade of the papermaking machine.

A method and a system of producing a paper product by processing a continuously flowing material is described. The method incudes virtually discretizing the material into a plurality of material portions; generating material portion representors associated with the material portions, wherein generating the material portion representors includes generating respective attributes of each of the material portion representors; for at least some of the process steps of the process, modifying the material portion representors by a respective virtual process step function. The method further includes a splitting process stage including splitting a portion of a downstream material portion representor into a split resource material portion representor and a remaining material portion representor. The method further incudes a merging process stage including merging with an upstream material portion representor a mergeable resource material portion representor.

An apparatus for measuring flowing suspension comprises a radiation source that directs wave motion to the flowing suspension. A measuring arrangement measures first values of a first parameter of the wave motion interacted with the flowing suspension at a first wavelength band of the wave motion. The measuring arrangement measures second values of the at least one of following: a second parameter of the wave motion interacted with the flowing suspension, and the first parameter of the wave motion interacted with the flowing suspension at a second wavelength band of the wave motion. The measuring arrangement forms at least one comparison relating to one of the first values and one of the second values. The measuring arrangement forms a distribution which has at least one of first values as a function of one of the comparisons.