The guidelines in USTER® NEWS BULLETIN No. 50 promote a deeper knowledge of well-known Key Performance Indicators such as the total cost of a bale laydown, the number of machine stops, and the impact of machine production settings. In fact, these, and practically all other KPIs are actually also Key Quality Indicators – with an impact on both the level and consistency of quality being produced. Uster Technologies defines and explains these quality factors in USTER® NEWS BULLETIN No. 50, with the theme ‘Managing a spinning mill with quality in mind’.

It’s all about quality

Dr Geoffrey Scott, CEO of Uster Technologies, says: “Today’s market for textile producers is more challenging than ever before. Consumers of textiles are becoming more demanding in their requirements for quality in the products they buy. This puts increasing pressure on manufacturers to produce the right level of quality every time. If they don’t, their reputation suffers, customers are lost to competitors, and profits decline. ‘Right quality’ is the level that meets the requirements of the customer and allows processes and production to run at optimum efficiency and effectiveness. That is the way to ensure you make the maximum level of profit in your business.”

Spinners today are increasingly recognizing that successful mill management correlates very closely with effective management of quality. It’s no longer wise to view these two disciplines in isolation – especially in the current volatile market environment.

That’s why more and more spinning companies are deliberately putting equal emphasis on both productivity and quality: in other words, managing the mill with quality in mind. From this perspective, it quickly becomes clear that very few mill operations are not related to quality – so it makes sense to unite quality management and mill Management.