Turkmenistan Asgabat Dokuma Toplumu (TDT), is an integrated Turkish textile plant that manufactures home products such as bed linens and towels from yarn fiber.
THIER NEED? To calculate the efficiency of both their staff and machinery via a compact PLC with Ethernet capabilities.
THIER SOLUTION? As offered by ILGISOFT and Unitronics, the yarn, which comes in coils, is treated first in a warp machine.
Then it is processed by additional starch based chemicals in TDT’s sizing machines. The process strengthens the yarn to get it ready for weaving. The beams coming out of the sizing machine are fixed on each of the weaving machines. The Unitronics V130-33-TR20’s, mounted on each weaving machine, are then able to allow the production staff to follow the process of the raw yarn becoming a cloth. At that stage, they were able to receive a digital signal in the PLC which was then able to interpret the following data:
- Instantaneous speed of the machine
- Alarms when the machine stops due to yarn rupture.
- In addition, machine operators could manually enter into the HMI’s :The name of the operator who is in charge of the machine
