Truetzschler launches first intelligent card at ITMA

"The possibility to increase quality and productivity as well as solving personnel issues through features like T-GO or Wastecontrol fascinated our customers," said sales manager Ralf Müller at Truetzschler.

On the Truetzschler Card TC 19i with the Gap Optimizer T-GO, a basic flat setting is only carried out once by specialists of Truetzschler. Afterwards, T-GO ensures an ideal carding gap at all times, whether the card is cold or warm, after clothing grinding, even after clothing replacement. This is a permanent, self-optimising, intelligent process that takes place without any production interruption. It responds automatically to changing parameters such as: material properties, production level, cylinder speed, environmental influences such as room temperature.

The key to the profitability of a spinning mill is the maximum utilisation of the raw material. On TC 19i, an optical sensor monitors the waste in the suction, thus providing the data for Wastecontrol. If too many good fibres end up in the waste, the system adjusts the mote knife setting on the Webfeed via a servomotor.

The Truetzschler Nep Sensor NCT permanently monitors the web on the doffer. A camera registers and distinguishes neps, trash particles and seed coat fragments. The data is displayed on the screen of the cards and also transmitted to the Truetzschler mill monitoring system My Mill. In this way, multiple cards can be monitored regarding quality delivery, and any deviation will immediately be recognised.

The TC 19i provides a multitouch screen that can be used as easily and intuitively as a smartphone. Individual operator recognition and authorisation is possible through an RFID chip. In addition, the remote card display T-LED visualises important machine information in an easy way and helps operators to stay aware of each machine's status.

"By talking to our customers about problems in their mills, we learned about their dependence on skilled staff. The precision of the flat setting is highly influenced by the operator, but reliable and well-trained personnel are difficult to find today. Customers were very impressed by the fact that very narrow settings can be set completely independent. The carding gap is no longer set by a technician, but by an intelligent system. The limitations of human precision have been overcome by Truetzschler machinery at this point," said Jürgen März, carding specialist at Truetzschler. (PC)

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