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Uster opened the door to advanced quality and More automation when immediate corrective actions are needed – as primary benefit spinners can achieve with Quality become more flexible and more productive – and it’s this future. We recognize that and want to enable
process optimization – making its unique Quality As each connected instrument joins the Quality well as allowing best management and leveraged Expert Standalone: “We believe that Quality Expert – essential to improve quality. those future structures in the mill. That’s why we
Cover Story range of yarn manufacturers. Previously, Quality intelligence for fault prevention and assured quality. Uster’s ambition to support business profitability is as solution helping to secure business now and in the Cover Story achieved? aspect to be managed. It is tightly connected to
continually state that quality is not a one-dimensional
improvements in positive cases.
Management Platform, Quality Expert expands its
Management Platform available to a much wider
in the hosted and standalone versions – is the
TEXtalks: How do you believe this could best be
Each Value Module of Quality Expert helps to
future. It provides the opportunity for any spinner to
Expert had been exclusively hosted within Uster
every other aspect. You can’t make a better quality
Sivakumar Narayanan: We see that structurally mills
automate costly tasks, prevent faults and drive higher
benefit from smart quality management from the
well-known as its dedication to quality. It was a good
Tester 6. The new Uster Quality Expert standalone
yarn just by using good machines and equipment.
will consolidate and become larger and more vertical.
initial investment – and then harvest additional value
process performance to the required quality levels,
moment to introduce a system which helps yarn
version is targeted at textile mills which do not yet
You also need better raw material, with a laydown
With fewer people and less experience, the only
own the Uster Tester 6 but have invested in at least
says Sivakumar Narayanan, Executive Vice President
one modern Uster instrument – such as the Uster
times. Remote data access enables mills to make
quality of the fiber and the machine settings to be
solutions are decision support tools that save time
Applying the same data ‘language’ throughout the
and Head of Marketing & Business Development,
Quantum 3, for example. The new offering helps constantly and reliably. producers overcome problems in these crisis-hit with each expansion into further quality control tools,” successful path forward is more automation. These that matches end-user requirements. You need the
critical decisions now – and will boost success
matched. You need waste levels adapted to the
and yet enable better decisions and shortest
users to benefit from automated quality management mill fosters common understanding. Mill managers, factors at the first signs of an upswing. Flexibility is a Uster Technologies. possible reaction times. expected quality. And you need production to be
capabilities, powered by Uster’s well known quality managers, operators and other personnel
application intelligence, with minimum investment. benefit from the well-established Value Modules such TEXtalks: What changes will come with a higher adapted to quality needs.
The value is then expanded in future with every as the Alarm Center – creating awareness and level of automation in mills?
additional product connected. triggering action. The Mill Analysis module provides Time for change – when it’s Sivakumar Narayanan: If some early adopters are So quality is tied to every key decision: raw material
insightful analytics for data-based decisions, and any indication, operators will become more skilled in choices, speeds, waste, machine settings to be used
The launch is part of the company’s vision to extend Yarn Prognosis uses an easy-to-read grading system future. The traditionally limited role of the operator – etc. This complex understanding of data points helps
its Think Quality concept further across the textile to predict yarn quality for subsequent processing and primarily related to productivity targets – will shift. us to build the future and help the modern mills to
community, using fact-based quality management. to prevent claims. The latest release features Operators will have to become more empowered, shape their future.
The standalone and the Uster Tester 6 hosted version additional highlights, including a new dashboard change for the better learning and becoming capable of handling tools.
share the same newly updated software release, design, a bar chart alternative to the ‘spider’ quality TEXtalks: So innovations must focus on how making
featuring many improvements. charts and improvements to the Mill Analysis module. Such tools attract educated staff, as they offer more the right decisions?
challenging tasks and make work more interesting. In
Sivakumar Narayanan: The innovation part is to
Both Quality Expert versions deliver uncompromising Information worth every cent Innovation and automation: the way to meet future other words, they take on more responsibilities from produce fact-based decisions and practical advice
the supervisor roles. Meanwhile the supervisors have
standards in ultimate analysis, unique Value Modules Flexibility in a spinning business also means taking to step up as well to manage the process. from data – through smart analysis combined with
and fault prevention mechanisms. Exploring vast every possible chance to save costs: waste challenges in spinning application intelligence. Uster Quality Expert is
optimization possibilities with total transparency reduction, power optimization and ultimately to obtain For some years, Uster has recognized that advancing further in that direction every year. Just
becomes easier than ever. maximum value out of costly raw material while management structures will become more fluid and look at the progress we made in the past 12 months,
meeting quality requirements. Control of key quality people will have multiple roles to manage, rather than
Remote control indicators, and analysis enabling correlative actions, the traditional silos. This applies equally to all levels despite the Covid disruption.
The role of accurate data in the production are part of the Total Contamination Control (TCC) and in the mill. The Uster News Bulletin No. 50, titled TEXtalks: What are your future plans?
environment is growing, alongside the need for Ring Spinning Optimization (RSO) Value Modules. `Managing a spinning mill with quality in mind´,
maximum flexibility. Businesses have to be ready with emphasized this trend. Sivakumar Narayanan: Uster wants to stand
effective short-term planning – especially when TCC combines data from Uster Quantum 3 yarn alongside our textile industry colleagues. We want to
markets today are as unstable as people’s health. clearers and Uster Jossi Vision Shield fiber cleaning TEXtalks: So where does that leave innovators like learn from them, and apply that learning to enable
Sudden changes in regulations might call for urgent to give spinners precise control over contamination Uster? textile managers to make the right quality-based
actions, which could even decide on the continuing levels in yarns. Interaction between initial control at Sivakumar Narayanan: We have to actually create decisions through automated tools.
viability of a business. fiber cleaning and final control at winding makes it
possible to balance ejections and clearer cuts. When
Uster Quality Expert enables informed connecting Uster Quantum 3 and Uster Sentinel to
decision-making. The new standalone version offers Quality Expert, mills can intelligently correlate ring
the same value-added reports, based on combined quality data and winding quality, for ultimate control
data from laboratory instruments and in-line over productivity and quality. RSO also enables Sivakumar Narayanan. Executive Vice President.
monitoring systems. Remote access to production higher spinning performance while optimizing cop Uster Technologies, Switzerland.
information, whenever and wherever needed, keeps build-up.
users in the picture 24/7.
Stay safe in business Sivakumar Narayanan, Executive Vice President
Spinners can connect the Uster Mobile Alerts app to Maintaining partnerships with spinning mills within Uster Technologies, talks about the current Sivakumar Narayanan: A challenge and a key
constraint is the reducing availability of experienced
Quality Expert and control mill operations from their worldwide for more than 70 years, Uster understands state of the industry and its needs. He sees textile managers. Margins are also truly challenging,
mobile phones. It allows alarms to be managed ‘in exactly the challenges they face. To enable even automation as a key solution and assesses the due to overcapacity or matching demand.
the pocket’ – so users can stay safe and still control faster response to any quality deviations, Uster impact of future changes on spinning mills
important production factors during the months further developed the Alarm Center Value Module. TEXtalks: What would be your advice to cope with
under the ‘new normal’ conditions. The remote The latest release of Uster Quality Expert indicates TEXtalks: Which do you see as the key future these challenges?
features will also be vital in driving a business whether a deviation appears in a critical range or in a challenges in spinning? Sivakumar Narayanan: The industry is compelled to
upswing in future. positive range. This additional information saves time
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