Uster devises value modules to reduce waste in yarns

Spinners can implement total contamination control by combining information from the Uster Jossi Vision shield fibre cleaning system and Uster Quantum 3 clearers, said Uster in a press release. Proven technology eliminates foreign matter at both ends of the yarn manufacturing process, so that mills can manage remaining yarn contamination and avoid unnecessary waste. Contamination control in the blowroom results in less contamination – and fewer cuts – at winding, with ultimately reduced contamination in both yarn and fabric. Balancing waste levels and clearer cuts controls quality and reduces costs, optimising the whole process.

Uster Ring Spinning Optimisation (RSO) works at the most costly stage in yarn manufacturing allowing mills to analyse combined quality data from spinning and winding in a single system. Information from Uster Sentinel and Uster Quantum 3 is intelligently translated by RSO into enhanced options for improvements, while the Roving Stop function stops defective yarn production. Spinners benefit from significant profitability increases and protection against claims.

Even greater potential for improvement comes with the state-of-the-art Uster RSO 3D, for extended ring spinning optimisation. This delivers quality data for each individual spindle position. The facility for quality mapping across the entire ring spinning machine helps to identify outlier sides, sections or spindles, as well as assisting maintenance decisions.

Uster Quantum 3 also collaborates seamlessly with Muratec Qpro EX/Fpro EX, Spin Inspector and Uster Sentinel. Outlier quality data from these connections activates Roving Stop at individual spindle positions where a quality problem is detected, again showing how Uster Quantum 3 prevents the production of poor quality yarn.

It is becoming more important for spinners to understand the quality perspectives of their customers in weaving and knitting – so that issues such as claims can be prevented before the yarn is shipped. Combining Uster Quantum 3 with Uster Tensojet and Uster Quality Expert helps provide the ‘customer viewpoint’, by giving an accurate prognosis of weaving performance, based on an easy-to-understand grading system. No fabric samples are needed, and testing costs are virtually zero. Feedback suggests that the prognosis information is an accurate reflection of real yarn behavior on both warping and weaving machines.

A further advantage of the ring spinning optimisation value module is its impact on cop build-up quality. Yarn clearer data from Uster Quantum 3 flows into the RSO Module of Uster Quality Expert and a comprehensive speed curve analysis is made. The results guide spinners to the best machine settings for higher production yields and the required quality. This reduces quality variations over the cop and boosts the overall performance of the ring spinning machine.

In one smart system, Uster Quantum 3 has the power to create a future of better quality and productivity for spinners – in which defects are prevented rather than merely cleared.

Uster is the world’s leading provider of quality management solutions from fibre to fabric. Uster Technologies provides high-technology instruments, systems and services for quality control, prediction, certification and optimisation in the textile industry. This includes systems for quality management, laboratory testing and in-line process control for fibres, staple and filament yarns, fabric inspection as well as value-added services. (PC)

Fibre2Fashion News Desk – India