No.

36, October 2015

Production optimization, maintenance

BEST PRACTICES IN RING SPINNING MAINTENANCE WITH USTER ® QUANTUM 3

The USTER ® QUANTUM 3 is well known as the yarn

quality assurance system for spinning mills. It’s the best
option for ‘management with quality in mind’. But USTER ®
QUANTUM 3 also offers much more as well. This
newsletter provides an example of how a spinning mill
used the YARN BODY TM and LED functions to improve its
maintenance practices.
Fig 2: A thin place (red area) was always followed by a thick place (blue
area)
A customer in Vietnam noted significant changes in clearer
cut levels on one of its winding machines. The problem was
This combination of information made it easy to identify the
identified in a 100% cotton Ne 32 combed ringspun yarn.
real source of the problem. From the side of the ring
This yarn had an accumulation of thin places in the region
spinning machine where the defects had been generated,
of 4-8 cm length, as well as an increase in thick places.
the thick places were produced first, each one always
This effect had occurred only for a certain period of time,
followed by a thin place. This is characteristic of a problem
after which it completely disappeared again.
caused by the front roller or middle cylinder. The origin of
the problem was related to some recent maintenance work,
during which the ring spinning machine had been stopped
without waiting for the next doff to be completed. This
meant that the load on all the pressure arms had been
released without generating a yarn break. When the
maintenance task was finished, the pressure arms were put
under load again – and this, on all of the 1200 spinning
positions, produced a single defect.

Abnormal cut level Normal cut level

Fig. 1: YARN BODY TM shows abnormal level of thick and thin places

By evaluating the detailed data and the YARN BODY TM

display, the spinning mill identified the source of the issue
as being at the ring spinning machine. By using the LED
stop function, some of the disturbing defects were collected
and retained for further discussion with the maintenance
manager. The yarn board display of these defects
confirmed that, in each case, a thin place of 4-8 cm length
was followed by a thick place in the winding direction.
Fig. 3: Comparing the abnormal cut level with the normal data
If the maintenance team had waited until the next doff was
completed, the ‘bad’ section of yarn would have been at
the lower end of the bobbin – and so would have been
removed for the bobbin change on the winding machine,
resulting in fewer cuts in winding.
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Fig. 4: YARN BODY TM normal production

Thanks to the USTER ® QUANTUM 3 a serious problem was

pointed out. Examining the defects on the yarn board
enabled the problem to be analyzed and solved by
experienced staff. Alerting the mill to the problem the
USTER ® QUANTUM 3 proved once more to be an
indispensable quality monitoring system.

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