External Factors in Textile Spinning, a course designed for supervisors and above, presents these topics: • Humidification – Temperature / Relative Humidity / Absolute Humidity • Material handling – Understanding of FIFO and Channelization in quality consistency • Work practices – Sliver piecing / Batch or Random creeling, etc. • Selection of right accessories and their impact on mill performance • Statistics for textile spinning – Basic definition: Population, Sample size (for all processes), Random Sample, Mean, Standard Deviation, CV%,…

Discover a signature experience for industry leaders at ATA’s Outlook Conference. Dive in to a deep exploration of the industrial and advanced textiles industry and uncover: Essential information, including driving factors and challenges, that will define the future growth of our industry Exclusive insights to power informed decisions that improve our organizations and daily lives Empowered understanding and decreased uncertainty to mitigate risk Expansive, shared knowledge from across industry sectors

Presented by Raul Thomas, Uster Technologies Explains the purpose and basic aspects of mass evenness testing including tester features, sample preparation, CV mass evenness, imperfections, diagrams and spectrogram charts. USTER® Statistics 2018 with respect to mass evenness testing will also be covered. The class will explain data from the USTER Tester 3 to USTER Tester 6. Contact Monét Freeman, freeman.monet@gaston.edu, 704-825-6305.

Techtextil North America assembles all vertical aspects of the technical textile industry: from research and development, through raw materials and production processes and finally ending in conversion, further treatment, and recycling.

Texprocess Americas, co-produced by SPESA, creates an opportunity for retail, brand, manufacturing executives, and professionals involved in the sewn products industry to meet with leading international manufacturers and distributors of machinery, equipment, parts, supplies, systems, technology, supply chain solutions, and other products and services used for the development of sewn products.

Presented by Raul Thomas, Uster Technologies The workshop covers how to manually calculate the component deliveries of machine gear plans to determine the causes of the periodic defects on the spectrogram. For workshop exercises, participants should bring calculators — a smart phone will suffice — as well as machine gear plans from their plants. If participants bring gear plans from their plants, please make sure that all change pulleys and gear sizes are known. The workshop will cover manual calculations…