This is the first of a series of articles jointly prepared with Uster Technologies being published to educate mill managers on yarn quality monitoring
The new USTER QUANTUM 3 yarn clearer is an innovative piece of technology that will repay investments many times. Using the USTER QUANTUM 3 with its expanded quality measurement capability, consistent yarn quality can be assured. This capability means every meter of the yarn is tested for compliance with set quality parameters, with simultaneous detection and removal of unwanted faults and contamination. Spinners can therefore guarantee the required quality to the yarn buyer.
With this generation of yarn clearer everything is newly designed. The housing, core sensing technologies and intelligent processing circuitry, cutter assembly, central clearing unit and user interfaces are all designed and shaped by USTER specialists with years of know-how and practical industry experience.
Powerful new capacitive, optical and foreign matter sensors are at the heart of the USTER QUANTUM 3. They can see it all, in greater detail than ever before. In combination with the powerful processing electronics, for the first time ever, the system shows the full yarn body – a massive breakthrough (the yarn body is simply the normal yarn with its set of expected tolerable natural variations).
The outstanding new foreign matter sensor has multiple light sources, so it detects new colored foreign fibers and helps separation of colored foreign fibers from mostly non-disturbing vegetable material. Polypropylene detection improves enormously using this new sensor technology.
It’s not only the sensor technology that has progressed to the next level. The USTER QUANTUM 3 also has a new faster and ergonomic central clearing unit – the sixth generation of this concept – controlled via a 14-inch touch screen. This unit can communicate in real-time with the new-generation USTER QUANTUM EXPERT SYSTEM, allowing, for example, comparisons of changed clearing settings at any winder, and synchronization across similar yarn lots if required.