Enhanced 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-optimized 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 are now available as upgrades and retrofits for existing machines. These enhancements significantly boost efficiency, reliability and sustainability, ensuring that existing winding machines continue to perform at their best.

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.

The flow-optimized, aerodynamically designed suction nozzle ensures efficient air guidance. 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% with the installation of the new suction nozzle, with a return on investment achieved in less than 16 months.

Installed on the package doffer, Smartjet enhances the efficiency of upper yarn search by significantly increasing the success rate of yarn pick-up during the splicing cycle. The effort required for manual upper yarn searching thus fell by around 50% to 80%. 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%.

The improved white splicing valve block 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%.

With the latest innovation, the open prism splice technology 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.