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Yarn Feed Control

Our client, a manufacturer of implantable medical devices, required improved control over their textile machinery. A servo motor system was designed and built to provide digitally precise, sequence programmable yarn feed systems. The significantly improved precision and versatility has provided a measurable boost in yield and quality. This client proceeded to install a larger, more beneficial 10 motor system to their additional knitting machinery.

Alignment Marker System

Our customer, a manufacturer of exotic lace table wear and panels, required a regular and consistent mark placed on both edges of their products during the first stage of manufacture. These marks ensure correct alignment is maintained during subsequent processing stages. While this system is very simple, consisting of little more than an electronic counter and a pneumatic actuator, it has successfully improved profitability by reducing wastage from errors in the later processing stages.

Jacquard Nottingham Lace Installation

Our customer (as above), a manufacturer of exotic lace table wear and panels, had a successful market share, but was struggling with ageing machinery which was becoming increasingly unreliable. New replacement machinery is no longer manufactured by anyone. They required a vast improvement in both machine uptime and product yield. Our engineers determined that their Nottingham Lace equipment was generally sound, but was connected to an ageing and unreliable jacquard. Our engineers suggested the installation of a modern electronic Jacquard which would recover their machine's reliabiltiy and allow them to continue serving their established market. We proposed using this opportunity to increase the Jacquard's hook count and take advantage of increased patterning scope. Our successful proposal included the necessary modifications and project management required to ensure that a modern Jacquard, designed to work with modern looms, could be adapted to provide the very different and variable lift profiles that the Nottingham Lace machine required.

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