Maintenance, Refurbishment and Upgrading of a Bleaching Machine
Presentation
Zorluteks is an integrated producer of cotton home textiles such as curtains, roller blinds, bed linens, bed covers and table clothes. The machines are used to bleach raw cotton fabrics from different suppliers with a wide range of whiteness. Current bleaching process does not account for the varying degree of whiteness, which causes inefficiency in terms of chemicals, water, energy and machine wear.
The aim is to develop a dynamic Decision Support Framework for bleaching machine to produce cotton fabrics with targeted whiteness indices.
Expected technical improvements:
Soft sensing
for online and non-invasive quality and maintenance measurement
Identification of the best process settings and product mix
to meet or increase productivity rates
Monitoring and control tool
for a safe and stable operation
Improved the resource efficiency
Human-machine interface visualisation and in-situ repair
including remote access and remote services
Core Process Unit Descriptive analysis tool
to raise the resource use awareness and provide easy-to-understand indicators and machine operator behavior change