Will Lasry describes a striping knitting machine that automatically cuts yarn for color changes and scans with UV light to catch defects like broken needles. A real-time dashboard tracks defect rates by shift, letting operators see exactly when and where problems happen.
And I guess this specific one is a striping machine because it cuts every single time there's a color change, and they can essentially program it to determine when it cuts. So if you want to have a lot of small stripes or you want to have a really fat stripe, the machine can be programmed.
So I noticed that on the inside there's like an invisible light, a UV light. This UV light is to detect defect. Imagine if it break the needle and the machine still finish to run, it will detect the defect and the machine will stop. Here is the board of productivity, defect rate, etc. So basically here you can see everything that is going on.
This is like an internal system that they built just for their product. And here you see the "defecto," I guess that's defect, and "turno" is the shifts. So it's defect to shift ratio.
On the first shift, normally is less productive because it's on the first shift that everybody change the machine. So it's normal that you produce less. Then you give for the third shift for the mass production.
