The New Uster 360Q Platform is the Enabler for the Comprehensive Data Processing
Uster Technologies introduced its pioneering solution suite, Uster 360Q, at ITMA 2023. The suite combines instruments, data-enabled software, and Uster textile expertise which empower mills to lift quality and profitability to the next level.
Going beyond customer benefits, the 360Q platform provides a pioneering suite of solutions driving textile manufacturers towards a new era of excellence. It enables cooperation with industry-leading companies for best-in-class solution.
The seamless integration of Uster equipment and intelligent digital tools, translating test data into insights for improvements. Uster textile experts collaborating side-by-side with mill staff to achieve optimal quality levels consistently, while minimizing costs.
Uster 360Q smoothly combines three key elements: cutting-edge instruments, integrated software with data analytics, and unrivaled textile expertise from Uster’s acknowledged specialists. With this combination, textile mills can completely embody the philosophy of ‘managing a mill with quality in mind’.
Minimized Losses From Claims
Uster 360Q supports spinners in sustainable data-driven decisions for raw material management. Combining Uster HVI 1000 with powerful software, analysis of fiber data is the start point. Uster textile experts then bring the capabilities of equipment, data and software tools into the specific mill context. This achieves maximum and long-term quality consistency, reduces mixing costs and optimizes yield and waste levels. Minimized losses from claims are the logical result.
FiberQ Lot and FiberQ Bale are the software elements of 360Q for raw material utilization. They support spinners’ daily processes, eventually resulting in better quality consistency, profitability and further growth.
To suit the diverse needs of spinning mills, two different FiberQ value modules are offered: Uster FiberQ Lot and Uster FiberQ Bale. The Uster FiberQ Lot laydown management value module is suitable for mills which take representative samples of incoming cotton, rather than 100% testing of all bales, particularly when cotton parameter variation is low within one lot. FiberQ Lot and FiberQ Bale achieve maximum quality consistency by processing high volumes of data while considering all key quality parameters.
The Uster 360Q Platform is the enabler for the comprehensive data processing. The cloud platform simplifies device and software complexity by providing a central access point for all Uster solutions and digital services, with reliability and top-notch security. It is feasible to see an overview of multiple plants from one central point, in any location.
Uster Fabriq Assistant makes a difference in fabric inspection with artificial intelligence
Uster Technologies introduced its newest product for fabric inspection, Uster Fabriq Assistant, at ITMA 2023. The new Uster Fabriq Assistant is a central platform for automated processing, analyzing, and visualizing quality data from Uster fabric inspection systems. Its three value modules – AI Classification, Quality Reporting and Central Management – give fabric producers the whole story for quality, saving time and driving operational excellence.
With the new Uster Fabriq Assistant, there is no need to toil over manual data. It’s all automated, so decision-making is simpler and much faster for fabric manufacturers.
Saves 80% of Time Spent on Data Classification
Fabriq Assistant introduces three value modules. AI Classification is at the heart of the system, delivering levels of accuracy and performance that human operators could never match. The Artificial Intelligence attaches codes to each image generated by the Uster Fabriq Vision products. Without this AI Classification, mill personnel would have to spend time and effort inserting codes to each defect at a PC, to carry out a data review. Artificial Intelligence means data classification is fully automated, so producers can save over 80% of the time taken by manual methods.
Benefits from synergies
Fabriq Assistant unites all the data from AI Classification and Quality Reporting. Combining classified details of defects with smart analysis of inspection data gives producers a valuable advantage: Fabriq Assistant not only gives alerts of issues, it also goes a stage further by both describing and locating a problem.
Combining data from AI classification and Quality Reporting unleashes the full power of the value modules. The real impact comes from meaningful data which is automatically analyzed.
Cut Down the Workload on Managers
Fabriq Assistant cuts down the unnecessary workload on managers, allowing them to focus on steering profitable production. The third value module, Central Management, makes this benefit clear, as all the required data is presented on a unified platform at the manager’s desk, in a real time-saving benefit. It means there is no need to check for machine alarms or identify finished rolls.
Indispensable assistant
Data from fabric inspection builds a reliable picture, as a sound basis for decisions. Cutting-edge hardware can be seamlessly integrated into production – at line running speeds up to 1,000 meters per minute – for consistent and efficient defect detection. After that Uster Fabriq Assistant takes over.
Automation also allows users to customize their experience in a highly flexible way, to suit their own mill organization, thanks to the smart machine learning technology in Fabriq Assistant.
