Yarn Manufacturing

Flexible Automation is being adopted even with Yarn manufacturing. The application of Integrated Manufacturing Systems are to monitor and/or control practically all yarn production processes from opening and blending to spinning, winding and twisting thereby ensuring 100% production.

Some of the applications of the automation in yarn manufacturing include inventory control, order tracking, maintenance control, budgeting, mill management and many other important functions in the yarn manufacturing process. Most of the top yarn manufacturing companies now use advanced controls on opening, blending, carding and other fiber preparation equipment, which are compatible with OM. Ring spinning machines with individual spindle drives offer great flexibility and will readily fit into the CIM concept. Sliver weights can also be controlled and the levels managed with the electronics connected to the computer network.


Fabric Manufacturing

Weaving and knitting machine builders have been blazing the trail in utilizing computer technology for efficient fabric manufacturing for many years with their use of CAD, bi-directional communication and artificial intelligence. With the availability of electronic dobby and jacquard heads, automatic pick finding, and needle selection, etc these machines can easily be assimilated into the existing computer networks of any production machines. The Bi-directional communication systems can be used to control multiple functions on a weaving machine. The textile automation system can be used to develop the fabric to be produced and the design can then be transmitted over the network to the production machines to get the desired fabric with the press of a button. With the advent of the latest computer technologies being implanted in the textile manufacturing process, the design instructions can even be sent by modem from one country to a weaving machine located anywhere else in the world. Today’s weaving machines are capable of receiving and responding to instructions from anywhere and you can operate the machinery by even sitting in another country such as the kind of development that can be achieved with flexible automation. These technologies when implemented can reduce the time needed to produce a fabric and give true meaning to the automation in textile manufacturing.

In the early part of the 1990s, due to remarkable progress in computer technology, the application in sizing machines has increased to such an extent that multi-point thermo sensors for energy saving, automatic control of squeezing pressure, size pick up detectors, multifunctional counters, etc have been developed and successfully implemented in the textile manufacturing process. The sizing machine control systems provide a tool for management to ensure that all warps are sized uniformly and identically under standard operating conditions. These monitoring and control capabilities can be included even in a computer network of a weaving mill.

For many years now the knitting machine manufacturers have been making excellent use of latest automation electronics to provide machines that are more automatic and slowly over a period of time many refinements and advances have been made to these systems.