Machinery manufacturer Karl Mayer has developed Multiguard Stop Motion – a sensor technology and data system able to optimise yarn processing and mitigate breakage. It’s said that the innovative system warns customers in the event of breakages or tension peaks, generating parameters that can be leveraged by each respective customer to ensure no recurring issues.
“The production sequences can be optimised, as well as entire value-added chains,” the German firm insists. “The efficient monitoring of yarn tension and feed during warp preparation can increase weaving efficiency by up to five per cent.”
Multiguard registers tension values for each processed yarn at the exit creel and transmits this data to a customer’s broader product lifecycle management solution. With this data, production at scale can be overseen by few staff members who merely need to check up on proceedings. In the case of a breakage, for example, it’s said that operators can quickly intervene with the system to rectify the issue.
Karl Mayer has also developed the Proactive-Warping three-level, modular recording system, whereby each level contains more information. Module 1 manages all the basic data supplied by sensors on the warping machine relating to the warping or beaming quality. For example, the data relates to the exact positioning of the bands in relation to the drum axis.
“The possibility of detecting critical deviations in yarn tension levels early on, and to intervene in order to adjust them was well received by our customers,” says Martin Fuhr, Head of development at Karl Mayer’s Warp Preparation Business Unit, of the technologies introduction at last summer’s ITMA showcase. It’s teased that future projects are in the pipeline at Karl Mayer.
