Manufacturing Excellence in Spinning Mills

A. Kanthimathinathan

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN: 9781032191003
• eBook ISBN: 9781000562514
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Industrial Engineering
• Index: Business

Manufacturing towards Excellence in spinning mills aims to help the relevant organization to cut costs, improve throughput, effective utilization of resources and to safeguard the interests of stakeholders. Major aspects discussed includes quality assurance, production management, maintenance management of modern machinery and laboratory equipment towards achieving manufacturing excellence with benchmarking and industry norms. Relevant case studies are provided with dedicated chapters on training and development of employees, energy management and customer focus.

Explains industry norms to benchmark any spinning mill against the manufacturing performance parameters.

Includes Failure Mode and Effect Analysis and Total Productive Maintenance aspects.

Explores training and development standards in spinning mills.

Discusses energy management and customer focus through effective techniques.

Reviews SPDM, PDM Tools, Contamination index, Spin plan, Customer Satisfaction Index, Co-Creation, and HPT

This book is aimed at professionals and researchers in textile engineering and management.

1 Quality and Process Management in a Spinning Mill

DOI: 10.1201/9781003257677-1

Learning Goals

• Operations in a Spinning mill
• Incoming Material Quality Evaluation
• Contamination Index
• In-Process Material Evaluation
• Package Defects and Control measures
• Application of Statistics
• Final Inspection of Products
• Key Performance Parameters in Each Department
• DUO Clearers

Introduction

Spinning mills in India have a lot of challenges both internally as well as externally. Even though trade agreements are affecting us in one manner, the other side is the efforts from mills for meeting Export yarn Quality standards– consistently. Towards this end SITRA has recommended few steps as below:

• Acceptance of Export culture through company wide communication and follow up
• Proper training of Quality control to all the concerned employees
• A well equipped laboratory and a full fledged Quality control department
• To impart training to operatives for avoiding bad work practices
• Strict inspection procedures & standards to avoid passing of defective products to the customers

Quality has many definitions. In whichever manner we define it, it is clearly understood that we need to meet the “Agreed/Perceived level of Quality level “for any products we manufacture. It is better to understand much more important definitions for “Quality”

• Quality is the totality of features and characteristics of a product or service that bear on its ability to satisfy given needs. (American Society for Quality) Quality, an inherent or distinguishing characteristic, is a degree or grade of excellence.
• Quality can be defined as conformance to specifications.
• Quality: more than asked for, more than expected, beyond common maximum perceived value, for free.
• Perhaps the most useful Business definition of quality is “fit for purpose.” This definition evolved in Quality management circles. It's useful because it's applicable to any process, service or product.
• Economists tend to judge quality by the price consumers are willing to pay.
• Quality is “compliance to the best known standards, processes and specifications.”
• Quality is “a satisfying experience-Customer's delight”
• W. Edwards Deming defined quality as follows:

Good Quality means a predictable degree of uniformity and dependability with a Quality standard suited to the customer. The underlying philosophy of all definitions is the same – consistency of conformance and performance, and keeping the customer in mind.

In a nutshell, Quality means “conformance to agreed standards/customer requirements in a consistent manner at an economical cost.” Organization should establish its Quali...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Foreword
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Author biography
• 1 Quality and Process Management in a Spinning Mill
• 2 Maintenance Management in Spinning mills
• 3 Production Management in Spinning Mills
• 4 Training and Development
• 5 Energy Management
• 6 Customer Focus
• 7 Industry 4.0
• List of Tables
• List of Case Studies
• List of Annexures
• References
• Index