Balancing of machines for complete process house :Part-6 Finishing (Softener application)

For finishing purpose stenter machine (4 chambers) will be used and fabric will be given softening treatment.

Machine working speed: 40 m/min, M/c utilization= 80%

Total production per shift (8 hours or 480 min)= (speed x utilization x 480)/100

= (40 x 80 x 480)/100 = 15,350 meter

Total fabric to be dyed= 50,000/-

15,350 meter fabric treated in 8 hours

50,000 meter…………= (8 x 50,000)/15,350 = Approx 26 h

Balancing of machines for complete process house :Part-7 Finishing (Zero-Zero)

For this purpose one Sanforizing (zero-zero) is needed to dimensionally stabilize cotton fabric.

Machine working speed: 40 m/min, M/c utilization= 80%

Total production per shift (8 hours or 480 min)= (speed x utilization x 480)/100

= (40 x 80 x 480)/100 = 15,350 meter

Total fabric to be dyed= 50,000/-

15,350 meter fabric to be preshrunked in 8 hours

50,000 meter…………= (8 x 50,000)/15,350 = Approx 26 h

Balancing of machines for complete process house :Part-1 (Introduction)

•      Machine balancing is a most important part of any process house to run production smoothly.

•      Let us take example of dyeing of 50,000 meter 100% cotton medium weigh quality (150 gsm) fabric to understand this

Process flow:

To start it, let us have following process flow:

Grey cotton fabric------Singeing & Desizing------Scouring------Bleaching-------mercerizing-----dyeing-----finishing----finish folding

Let us have following type of machines to carry out processing of 100% cotton fabric:

•      Singeing cum Desizing

•      Scouring & Bleaching (Pretreatment renage-PTR)

•      Mercerizing

•      Continuous dyeing range (CDR)

•      Softening & Drying on stenter

•      Sanforzing (Zero-zero)