Uster Tester 6 Wins Accolade For All Round Yarn Performance

Machinery and Technology

Uster Tester 6 Wins Accolade For All Round Yarn Performance

The practical benefits delivered by USTER^® TESTER 6 range from assured quality control to expert process analysis and optimization of the entire spinning mill with the Total Testing Center. It’s no surprise, therefore, that this sixth generation of the renowned USTER^® tester has already earned widespread acclaim across every discipline of the yarn manufacturing sector.

In less than three years since its introduction, USTER^® TESTER 6 has earned positive feedback from spinning mill quality managers for automatic data analysis and alerting features provided by Assistant Q. Production managers appreciate the facility for connection with other USTER^® testing and monitoring instruments to offer detailed guidance on process improvements, integrated throughout all mill operations. At the top level, mill owners report great satisfaction with their investment in USTER^® TESTER 6 as a means to boosting staff performance in the drive towards managing the spinning mill with quality in mind. Ultimately, it’s a risk-reducing guarantee of success – especially important in a highly-competitive market such as Turkey.

The benefits of the USTER^® TESTER 6 are also impressing professionals at the next stage of the yarn business: the traders and sales people tasked with linking yarn production to the paying customers downstream.

At the forthcoming ITM 2018 exhibition in Turkey, the USTER^® TESTER 6 will be showcased to all these groups from the yarn business, with USTER specialists ready to present the only evenness tester with numerous deal-making advantages.

Pilling prognosis passes the test

Pilling trials carried out manually at the fabric stage consume both time and money – and even then, assessments are based on the subjective views of the operators. But it’s different with Assistant Q: he provides objective grading of the yarn, with accurate and instant results. His prognosis relies on data and algorithms developed on thousands of samples. The grades have been proven in blind testing, so yarn sellers can rely on them.

An Indian spinner facing a severe quality claim decided to put the accuracy of predictions by human operators and Assistant Q to the test. The spinner had complaints about low pilling resistance in knitted fabric made from a Ne 30 100% combed cotton ring spun yarn. The mill sent samples of knitted fabrics – made of yarns produced from three different cotton bale laydowns – to an institute, for testing with the pilling box method. At the same time, yarn samples of the same three different cotton mixes were sent to the USTER^® laboratories for a blind test. This was a task for Assistant Q, who provides data-based pilling grades as an integral part of the Total Testing Center of USTER^® TESTER 6.