Enhanced Rieter Autoconer Performance with Winding Upgrades
Rieter offers upgrades for existing winding machines, incorporating the latest features from the Autoconer X6. These upgrades enable significant improvements in machine efficiency, energy savings and package quality, ensuring a more economical and sustainable production process.
Winding machines are the final quality assurance in the spinning process. They create process-optimised packages, which are the key to high performance of subsequent process steps. Continuous technical and technological advancements are pivotal in maintaining efficiency and competitiveness. To optimize winding operations, the latest innovations from the Rieter winding machine Autoconer X6 (Figure 1) are now available as upgrades and retrofits for existing machines. These enhancements significantly boost efficiency, reliability and sustainability, ensuring that winding machines continue to perform at their best.
Key winding upgrades for enhanced machine performance
Rieter has developed a range of upgrade and retrofit solutions designed to increase machine efficiency and performance. Key upgrades include the suction nozzle, the Smartjet power nozzle, the valve block and the open prism.
Optimised suction nozzle enables up to 17% energy savings
Figure 2: The flow-optimized, aerodynamically designed suction nozzle reduces energy consumption up to 17%.
The flow-optimised, aerodynamically designed suction nozzle ensures efficient air guidance (Figure 2). This design enables effective upper yarn pickup even at reduced suction pressure, leading to lower energy consumption and improved operational efficiency. Field test results have shown energy savings of up to 17 per cent with the installation of the new suction nozzle, with a return on investment achieved in less than 16 months.
Machine efficiency rises by up to 3% with Smartjet
Figure 3: The Smartjet upgrade installed on the doffer helps to improve the machine efficiency by up to 3%.
Installed on the package doffer, Smartjet (Figure 3) enhances the efficiency of upper yarn search by significantly increasing the success rate of yarn pick-up during the winding cycle. The effort required for manual upper yarn searching thus fell by around 50 to 80 per cent. This improves overall process reliability and reduces machine stoppages. Customer studies have shown that the Smartjet upgrade can boost machine efficiency by up to 3 per cent.
Up to 30% reduced maintenance cost with valve block
Figure 4: New improved valve block reduces maintenance costs by up to 30%.
The improved white splicing valve block (Figure 4) increases process reliability during splicing. This provides a longer lifetime thanks to its updated design and material compared to the already existing black and white valve block. In addition, it reduces the risk of undetected compressed air loss. The study shows that the new valve block helps reduce maintenance costs by up to 30 per cent.
Improved splices and simplified operation with open prisms
Figure 5: Open prism splice technology designed for universal use can cover a wider yarn count range.
With the latest innovation, the open prism splice technology (Figure 5) using the prisms OZ1, OZ2 and OS, customers benefit from improvements in the splice process and splice quality. This upgrade enables spinning mills to handle a wider range of yarn counts with ease. Additionally, all splicing parameters can be set centrally by the operator with just a few clicks, ensuring consistent quality and simplified operation.
These upgrades provide future-ready solutions for spinning mills, addressing the challenges of aging machinery while improving overall performance. By integrating state-of-the-art technology upgrades into existing winding machines, customers can achieve higher productivity, superior package quality and cost-effective operations.
About Rieter
Rieter is the world’s leading supplier of systems for manufacturing yarn from staple fibers in spinning mills. Based in Winterthur (Switzerland), the company develops and manufactures machinery, systems and components used to convert natural and
man-made fibers and their blends into yarns in the most cost-efficient manner. Cutting-edge spinning technology from Rieter contributes to sustainability in the textile value chain by minimizing the use of resources. Rieter has been in business for 230 years, has 18 production locations in ten countries and employs a global workforce of around 4 790, about 16% of whom are based in Switzerland.
