World Market Trends for Texturing Machinery.

In 1996, shipments of single heater drawtexturing spindles for nylon yarns reached 9,600 spindles and shipments of double heater drawtexturing spindles for polyethylene terephthalate (PET) yarns reached 95,700 spindles. This corresponds to sales of approximately 500 drawtexturing machines. In Western Europe, production of textured nylon y..

Quality Management in the Spinning Mill.

Yarn spinning mill quality management relies on four key concepts: fulfilling the product or service requirements of the customer, using preventive rather than corrective action, attaining zero deviation, and measuring the cost of quality. An overview of yarn spinning mill quality management examines changes in the spinning process, chang..

Modern Machines' Monitor.

Maschinenfabrik Rieter AG's SPIDERweb data system collects, prepares, and displays all quality and production data from a complete spinning installation on a central monitor. It features a Microsoft Windows interface and allows such settings as time and shift schedules to be entered centrally. The SPIDERweb spinning position analysis reve..

Industrial On-line Removal of Honeydew.

Spinning mills use several techniques to reduce cotton stickiness, including washing and drying the fibers and heat treatments. Heat treatments, which remove the water content of the adhesive substances so that they lose their adhesiveness, are generally superior to washing. Because stickiness harms spinning, drawing, combing, and carding..

Nurturing a Passion for Ring Spinning.

Swift Spinning's East Columbus, South Carolina, plant, which is designed to manufacture knitting yarns in the Ne 18-40 count range, features extensive production and quality monitoring, maintenance, state-of-the-art Rieter equipment, well planned automation processes, and a well trained workforce. The plant averages three breaks per 1,000..

Process Automation in Spinning Mills.

State-of-the-art automated rotor spinning mills now feature automatic can and package handling to and from the machines in addition to automated piecing, tube feeding, and package changing equipment. Rieter's automated spinning mill collects 1,000 millime

Conversion Cost in Different Counts.

SITRA developed a mathematical formula to determine the cost of production in a spinning mill. The conversion cost per kilogram of yarn depends on the count and type of yarn and the working conditions in the mill. The formula uses 17 variables to calculate the cost of production per kilogram of yarn for a given count. Researchers used the..

Zellweger Uster: Improving Quality Control in the Spinning Mill.

Zellweger Uster's Uster Expert spinning mill control and monitoring system compresses data to the minimum required by the user. It performs such routine tasks as memorizing, hadling, and documenting quality data; detecting production faults; determining t

Just in Time Cotton Shipments Using HVI Data and the EFS System.

To ensure uniformity of its cotton shipments, Fruit of the Loom Incorporated receives a diskette with complete high volume instrument (HVI) data from its suppliers and uploads the HVI data using EFS software. The company uses the pick by bale function fro

Just in Time Cotton Shipments Using HVI Data and the EFS System.

The development of high volume instrument (HVI) technology allowed cotton suppliers to target just in time delivery of cotton, in which cotton is delivered to the spinning mills on time and in the proper mix for the opening room. The development of Cotton