Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.

William James Raynor, Jr

Jeffrey Dean Lindsay

Bernhardt Edward Kressner

James Jay Tanner

David Glen Biggs

Walter Theodore Schultz

Mark D Perkins

Angela Kay Klim

George Murray Heinz

Kelly Loren Phillips

Brett David Sengbusch

Glenn George Schroeder

Michael John Rekoske

Paul Douglas Beuther

Kent Allan Franklin

Young Ko

Paulin Pawar

Angela R Zillmer

Terrance David Ries

Carla K Fields

A soft, layered, single-ply wet-pressed tissue can be made with improved softness by providing one or both outer layers of the tissue with polysiloxane-treated pulp fibers. A particularly suitable wet-pressing process includes pressing a wet tissue web between a felt and a transfer belt to dewater the web, followed by transfer of the dewatered web to a texturizing fabric where the wet web is provided with a three-dimensional texture. Thereafter the texturized web is transferred to a Yankee dryer, dried and creped. The combination of the polysiloxane fibers and the texturizing step provides a particularly effective combination of surface feel, low stiffness and high bulk (caliper).

Molded wet-pressed tissue

A method and system for predicting the profit attributable to a proposed sales promotion of a product, wherein the product has a wholesale price and a manufacturing cost per unit sales, including establishing a base volume for sales of the product in the absence of promotions; determining a sales lift for the plurality of single promotions; and correlating the sales lift with promotion information to provide a sales lift model. The method and system also include proposing a promotion having a cost per unit sales for a promotion time period and having a planned sale price for the product; applying the sales lift model to the proposed promotion to predict sales of the product for the promotion time period; and calculating manufacturer profit based upon the product's predicted sales, cost per unit sales for promotion, wholesale price, and manufacturing cost per unit sales during the promotion time period.

Business planner

System for predicting sales lift and profit of a product based on historical sales information

A method is described for determining the effectiveness of maintenance or other improvements to a system having multiple sections and multiple modes of failure. The method uses a simulation model that is dynamic in that it can change during a simulation run to show how a system event such as a failure of one system section can effect a different system section. By running the simulation model multiple times, it may become apparent which system section will benefit most from maintenance or other improvements.

Method for simulating a system having multiple failure modes

A system and method of tracking tags at several successive points of a business process. A reader attempts to read each tag at each successive point. A processor populates a database with information corresponding to the reading of each tag at each successive point and the time of each reading. A tool modifies part of the information in the database as a function of other information in the database. The modified information is used to track the tags through the business process.

System and method for tracking ID tags using a data structure of tag reads

Webs can be embossed and laminated using irregular bonding patterns with the pin-on-pin embossing process. Different patterns are provided onto each web and the webs are joined in a bonding nip to form a laminate. The bonding pattern formed in the bonding nip is irregular. The irregularity of the bonding pattern reduces vibrations within the machinery and allows increased machine speed. The irregularity of the pattern can be determined using the Self-Similarity Count or the Energy Suppression Factor method.

Embossing and laminating irregular bonding patterns

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Appleton, WI, United States of America

William James Raynor, Jr