Textile Machinery: What the Mills Run
You cost one integrated mill at Bhilwara at the machines that make the cloth you buy. You meet the ring frame whose output falls as the yarn gets finer, the rotor that cannot hold a yarn below a hundred fibres, the air-jet loom worth six tenths of a cent a metre more than a rapier, and the jet dyeing machine a failed shade sits in for eleven hours while the airport bill runs.
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Course value
What will you be able to do?
Work outcome
You can read a machine list and say which styles it can and cannot make, specify the right machine for a seam, and build the investment case for the one machine that would change what you can sell.
Who it is for
Factory and supplier teams.
What you will produce
You build a yarn price from the mill's own spindle-hour cost, showing how much of a finer count is cotton rather than machine. You run a check that says which counts a rotor can and cannot spin. You split a 56-day quotation into machine days and queue days. You work out a minimum order from a measured setup. And you find the batch size at which a re-dye stops beating a write-off.
Learning format
3 lessons · 0 templates · workplace calculations and decisions.