A medium-sized spinning mill in India has installed Uster-Muratec RSO 3D as a part of an expansion project. The installation included 30 compact ring spinning machines with Uster Sentinel, in combination with Muratec QPRO EX/FPRO EX featuring Spin Inspector and Uster Quantum yarn clearers. The customer produces 100 per cent combed cotton yarn, in counts Ne 26 and Ne 32 on these machines. The installation helped it to reduce yarn faults by 10 per cent and yarn alarms by 12 per cent in both counts with RSO 3D. Quality blocks were reduced by a further 7 per cent and finally clearer quality cuts by 8 per cent.

Overall, the spinner was able to reduce total yarn splices by 5 per cent, producing about 5 kg more good yarn per machine per month. By reducing yarn joints on the winding machines, the customer needed less compressed air and thus less electricity for the machine compressor unit. These savings amount to approximately 954 kWh per machine per month. Calculated at about Rs 6 per kWh, this equals Rs 5,724 per machine per month. With 30 machines, it amounts to Rs 2 million annually.