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For knitting mills

Feed the machine on your own numbers.

Yarn breaks, tension that drifts and a speed the machine will not hold are measurable problems. We start from the figures your shift already records, install a sample on one of your machines, and compare the result with that baseline before anything is scaled.

  • Baseline first Your figures, taken before anything changes
  • On your machine Tested in your working condition
  • Same measurements Before and after, taken the same way
  • Support after The team that tested it stays with it

On the mill floor

Break rate, tension, speed, stop time.

Feeding problems rarely arrive as one failure: several values move the wrong way at once — and they are the values your production record already holds.

  • Break rate Yarn breaks per shift, on this machine, with this yarn.
  • Tension Working window, and how far the value drifts across positions.
  • Speed The RPM the machine actually holds with your product, not the manual figure.
  • Stop time Minutes lost to feeding faults, and the restarts that follow them.
  • Fabric quality Faults that reach the fabric before anyone stops the machine.
  • Consistency Whether the same yarn and settings give the same result next week.

Trial installation

A sample on one machine, inside your production.

A sample is installed on one machine, in a window agreed with your production plan, and tuned with the machine running your product. The settings are recorded as they are confirmed.

Trial process

From your baseline to a proven configuration.

A trial runs on one machine, inside your normal production, against figures taken before the change. Six steps — and the last one can just as well be a decision not to continue.

  1. 01 Send the working condition

    Machine type, brand and model, the yarn you run, the product, and the values you already record.

  2. 02 Application check

    We check whether electronic feeding fits the problem. Where a mechanical change solves it, we say so.

  3. 03 Trial installation

    A sample is installed on one machine, in a window agreed with your production plan.

  4. 04 Run and adjust

    Settings are tuned with the machine running your product, and recorded as they are confirmed.

  5. 05 Compare with the baseline

    The same values are measured again, the same way, and put beside the numbers taken before.

  6. 06 Decide together

    Keep the configuration, adjust it, or stop. The decision follows the comparison, not the schedule.

Image slot 1600 x 900: trial installation of a yarn feeder on a knitting machine

Baseline data

The baseline is yours, and it decides the trial.

Before a sample is fitted we ask for what the machine is doing now. Without those figures there is nothing to compare against, and a trial becomes an opinion.

  • Machine and yarn Type, brand and model, gauge, and the yarn counts that run on it.
  • Break rate Breaks per shift as you record them, from an ordinary shift rather than a good one.
  • Tension The working window, and how far the value drifts across positions and package sizes.
  • Speed The RPM the machine holds with the product you actually sell.
  • Stop time Minutes lost to feeding faults, and how the machine restarts afterwards.
  • Quality standard What the fabric has to meet, so that a result can be judged against your own standard.
Image slot 1200 x 800: mill operator reading tension and speed values

Validation

What counts as a result.

A result only counts if it is measured the same way as the baseline: same machine, same yarn, same product, same shift.

  • Measured the same way The before and after values come from your records, taken at the same point in the shift.
  • More than one value Break rate alone can improve while tension drifts; the whole set has to move in the right direction.
  • Kept only if it holds A configuration that performs on a good shift only is adjusted or removed.
  • Recorded for scale-up The confirmed settings are written down, so the next machine starts from a known configuration.

No percentage, speed figure or response time is stated on this page. The numbers that matter are the ones measured on your machine — and a trial can also end with the conclusion that the change is not worth keeping.

Image slot 800 x 600: yarn package and feeder detail at the creel

Installation

Fitted inside a running mill.

Installation is short work, but it decides whether the trial means anything: planned with your production team, and everything set is written down.

  • Agreed window Planned around your production plan, not around a delivery date.
  • Mounting and yarn path The sample is fitted to the machine and routed into the yarn path it will work with.
  • Parameter setting Feeding, tension and detection settings are set with your product running.
  • Handover Operators are shown what was changed, what to watch and how to reset it.
  • Record The configuration and the machine data are written down, so the setup can be repeated.

From trial to volume

Scale only what has been proven.

The step after a trial is a commercial decision, and it is taken on the comparison — not on a delivery schedule. Each stage below starts from the configuration confirmed on the machine.

Step 01

One machine

The tested setup stays on the machine it was proven on, with the settings recorded and the sample left in production.

  • Baseline
  • Trial
  • Comparison

Step 02

The same machine type

Further machines follow when they run the same yarn and product under the same conditions, so the confirmed settings carry over.

  • Same yarn
  • Same product
  • Same settings

Step 03

Repeat supply

The validated specification becomes the supply position: repeat orders, spare feeders and wear parts on the same specification.

  • Repeat order
  • Spare feeders
  • Wear parts

A rollout, and any project registration or conditional area arrangement that goes with it, is agreed case by case and confirmed in writing. Nothing on this page is an exclusive or territorial commitment.

Engineering support

The same team, after the trial.

Support is not a separate department — the engineers who checked the application and set the sample are the ones who answer.

  • Installation support Fitting, yarn routing and parameter setting, with the machine running.
  • Diagnosis Feeding faults and tension problems traced with the machine data, remotely or on site.
  • Wear parts and spares Replacement components for the feeder and the yarn path, on the specification that was confirmed.
  • Escalation The engineers who developed the product take the technical question.

How a component is checked before it ships

Quality and Testing

The two tracks behind every order

Our Process

Next step

Request a trial on your own machine.

Send the machine model, the yarn, the product and the figures you already record. An engineer will come back with the configuration to test and what the comparison would look like.