Textile Machinery Technician Metal, Machinery & Related Trades Workers

Technologies, operations, monitoring and maintenance of machines during the yarn spinning process.

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Modern Cotton Spinning Machinery

Nasmith

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Processes used for changing the properties of textile materials. This includes operating, monitoring and maintaining textile finishing machines.

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Addition of colour partially, according to the designed pattern, onto textile based materials. Processes for adding coloured patterns onto textile materials using printing machines and techniques (rotary of flat bed …

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Development, manufacturing requirements, properties and evaluation of braided fabrics.

The functioning of electronic circuit boards, processors, chips, and computer hardware and software, including programming and applications. Apply this knowledge to ensure electronic equipment runs smoothly.

Theoretical and practical applications of the science studying the action of displacements and forces on physical bodies to the development of machinery and mechanical devices.

Check machinery and equipment to ensure reliable performance during use and operations in worksites.

Read and interpret such technical resources such as digital or paper drawings and adjustment data in order to properly set up a machine or working tool, or to assemble mechanical …

Test electrical equipment for malfunctions. Take safety measures, company guidelines, and legislation concerning electrical equipment into account. Clean, repair and replace parts and connections as required.

Check and repair electronic equipment. Detect malfunction, locate faults and take measures to prevent damage.

Maintaining standards of work in order to improve and acquire new skills and work methods.

Use soldering equipment, such as a soldering gun, a soldering torch or a gas-powered iron, to melt and join together pieces of metal or steel.

Use welding equipment to melt and join together pieces of metal or steel; wear protective eyewear during the working process.

Perform regular maintenance, possibly including corrections and alterations, on a machine or machine tool to ensure it remains in a proper productive state.

Perform the maintenance on installed equipment on-site. Follow procedures to avoid uninstalling equipment from machinery or vehicles.

Perform tests putting a system, machine, tool or other equipment through a series of actions under actual operating conditions in order to assess its reliability and suitability to realise its …

Record data which has been identified specifically during preceding tests in order to verify that outputs of the test produce specific results or to review the reaction of the subject …

Remove defective parts and replace them with functioning components.

Identify, report and repair equipment damage and malfunctions; communicate with field representatives and manufacturers to obtain repair and replacement components.

Use equipment to test performance and operation of machinery.

Operate machines that enable weaving processes turning threads into fabrics. Setup weaving machine programmes for the machine to produce fabrics with the adequate pattern, colour and fabric density.

Prepare bobbins to be used in textile processing.

Produce plans for the frequency, operations, components and materials to be used in the maintenance of footwear. Install, program, tune and provide preventive and corrective maintenance for different machines and …

Perform the operation, monitoring and maintenance of machines and processes to manufacture weft knitting fabrics.

Use warping, sizing, drawing-in and knotting technologies that enable the formation of warps.

The power transmission systems that use the force of flowing liquids to transmit power.

Processes involved in textile dyeing using different dyeing technologies. Also, addition of colours to textile materials using dye stuffs.

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Manufacturing of nonwoven fabrics according to specification. Development, manufacture, properties and evaluation of nonwoven fabrics.

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Nonwoven Fabric

Rembrandt Elise

2020

The efficiency aims and environmental issues posed by challenges in the textile industry.

The offered textile industry machinery products, their functionalities, properties and legal and regulatory requirements.

Manufacturing technologies which use loop forming techniques to convert yarns into fabrics in order to form knitted fabrics.

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Advanced Technology in Textiles

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The requirements, rules and applications of health and safety measures in the textile industry.

The application of pressurised gas to produce mechanical motion.

Explain technical details to non-technical customers, stakeholders, or any other interested parties in a clear and concise manner.

Assemble machines according to instructions and specifications.

Check products for quality on the production line and remove defective items before and after packaging.

Perform cleaning routines after equipment use.

Monitor activities and perform tasks ensuring compliance with standards involving environmental protection and sustainability, and amend activities in the case of changes in environmental legislation. Ensure that the processes are …

Estimate the cost implications of restoring and replacing products or parts.

Install equipment which is dependent on electric currents or electromagnetic fields in order to work, or equipment to generate, transfer or measure such currents and fields. This equipment includes switchboards, …

Install systems and components that use liquid fluid power to create mechanical movements such as hydraulic pumps, valves, hydraulic motors, hydraulic cylinders and other elements that power hydraulic machinery.

Install systems and components that use pneumatics to create mechanical movements such as air brakes, pneumatic cylinders, air compressors and other systems.

Perform routine maintenance and repairs on systems which use pressurised fluids to provide power to machines and equipment.

Perform the operation, monitoring and maintenance of machines and processes to manufacture braided products while keeping efficiency and productivity at high levels.

Perform the operation, monitoring and maintenance of machines and processes to manufacture knitted products keeping efficiency and productivity at high levels.

Perform the operation, monitoring and maintenance of machines and processes to manufacture nonwoven staple products, keeping efficiency and productivity at high levels.

Command products from relevant suppliers to get convenient and profitable products to purchase.

Prepare documents with legal value which prove that an installation or a facility is conform to the regulations.

Inform customers about necessary repairs or replacements, discuss products, services and costs, include accurate technical information.

Prepare documentation for existing and upcoming products or services, describing their functionality and composition in such a way that it is understandable for a wide audience without technical background and …

Set up and give commands to a machine by dispatching the appropriate data and input into the (computer) controller corresponding with the desired processed product.

Identify operating problems, decide what to do about it and report accordingly.

Utilise computer equipment or digital devices to facilitate quality control, data management, and communication. Follow instructions given by a computer programme, create computer files or documents.

Use textile finishing machine technologies that enable the coating or laminating of fabrics.

Use warp knitting machine technologies that enable the formation of fabrics. Able to set machines for warp knitting, colour and pattern for monitoring and controlling the warp knitting process on …

Write records of the repairs and maintenance interventions undertaken, of parts and materials used, and other repair facts.

Convert slivers into yarns or threads by combing processes converting drafting card sliver to combed sliver. Form short fibre to yarn using yarn and thread processing technologies, mostly ring spinning …

Perform the operation, monitoring and maintenance of machines and processes to manufacture man-made fibers, ensuring that the product meets the required specifications, keeping efficiency and productivity at high levels.

Perform the operation, monitoring and maintenance of machines and processes to manufacture staple fiber yarns.

Perform the operation, monitoring and maintenance of machines and processes to manufacture texturised filament yarns.

Perform the operation, monitoring and maintenance of machines and processes to manufacture woven fabrics.

Explain and demonstrate the use of training equipment and system functions.