{"id":17065,"date":"2017-05-26T10:51:14","date_gmt":"2017-05-26T07:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/textilegence\/autoconer-reached-record-figure-2-5-million\/"},"modified":"2017-11-09T14:41:55","modified_gmt":"2017-11-09T11:41:55","slug":"autoconer-reached-record-figure-2-5-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.textilegence.com\/en\/autoconer-reached-record-figure-2-5-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Autoconer Reached Record Figure; 2.5 million"},"content":{"rendered":"

Global success; the 2.5-millionth Autoconer winding unit was put into operation in 2017!<\/strong><\/p>\n

This record, unmatched in the sector, is another milestone in Schlafhorst’s<\/a> successful company history and shows how much trust the textile industry has in its technological leadership. For over half a century, the German textile machinery manufacturer has been determining the technical and technological progress in package winding with the Autoconer.<\/p>\n

The synonym for automatic package winding for 55 years<\/strong><\/h1>\n

With the mass production of the Autoconer in 1962, the era of automatic package winding began. The sales success was staggering. As early as the preview three years prior at the ITMA in Milan in 1959, the revolutionary concept of the product sparked enthusiasm among the experts in the textile industry. Since then, the name Autoconer has been the synonym for automatic package winding. Today, Autoconer packages are still the global benchmark for quality and efficiency.<\/p>\n

The history of the product is characterised by a long list of ground-breaking inventions that have always increased customer benefits. Every product generation exceeded the industry’s expectations regarding efficiency and technology. Revolutionary splicing technology, innovative sensor technology and control systems, the unique FX technologies and intelligent automation systems became state of the art, thanks to Schlafhorst.<\/p>\n

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Autoconer Reached Record Figure; 2.5 million<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Autoconer 107 \u2013 the dawn of automation<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The first product generation radically changed workflows in the package winding sector. In manual winding, staff had to change the tubes and provide each bobbin individually, find the upper and lower yarn end, knot them together and put it in the yarn path. Moreover, the packages had to be changed by\u00a0 hand.<\/p>\n

The many manual handlings in the machine limited productivity and quality. The Autoconer 107 broke these shackles. The circular magazine with automatic bobbin changing drastically improved its ease of use. A mechanical yarn clearer, a knotting aggregate and lastly the package doffer automated the winding process. The operators were relieved of almost all manual work thanks to the product and took on mainly supervisory functions. Automation was the necessary prerequisite to increase productivity and quality, as the limiting factors of staff, and therefore the necessary manual interference, would be removed. Through this, the package winding sector became significantly more efficient; it was the breakthrough that changed the labour-intensive winding process to an automatic one.<\/p>\n

The benefits of the Autoconer 107 compared to a manual winding machine spoke for themselves:<\/p>\n