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Product knowledge and customer focus are key attributes for the staff responsible for servicing and maintaining USTER equipment, to keep customer production facilities running at peak efficiency.

Product knowledge and customer focus are key attributes for the staff responsible for servicing and maintaining USTER equipment, to keep customer production facilities running at peak efficiency.

Jhankar Dutta, Managing Director, B&R Industrial Automation, India, explains trends in textile manufacturing in India and importance of automation and digitalisation in textile industry.

The major technological advancements associated with the First Industrial Revolution – that lasted from the mid-18th century to about 1830 – were concerned with textile manufacturing, especially spinning. John Kay’s invention of flying shuttle, which enabled wider cloth to be woven faster, in 1767 marked the beginning of modernisation (or automation) in the textile industry.

APROL system from B&R satisfies all the requirements of brownfield as well as greenfield sites with flexible and modular solutions without neglecting the high demands on availability and data consistency.