Picanol Automates Quality Control On Weaving Machine

摘要

Quality requirements are becoming ever sharper, getting as low as one or two faults per 100 m on some technical styles. Seconds are practically worthless: if bad quality strays into the percentage area, you can say goodbye to profitability. The good news is that significant advances are being made in automating the task of monitoring quality and correcting deviations on the machine. This contribution shows how Picanol offers a solution for performing this task, taking starting marks as an example. First let's look at the simple situation. In most cases, the starting mark occurs around the stop: the operator can estimate visually whether the mark is open, dense or wavy, small or big. Fixing can be done with Picanol's FixAMark, available on all looms. This gives a style-specific standard setting to ensure that stopping and starting are carried out with minimal movement and relaxation, with or without leveling.