Elements and Performance Criteria
- Set up and load creels
- Production specifications are checked to identify requirements for yarn quantity, quality and colour as required.
- Yarn batch is checked to ensure conformity to specifications.
- Non-conforming materials are reported.
- Cones are loaded onto creeling magazine.
- Yarn is tied or spliced into creel and entered into the reed, accumulators, tension and clearing devices as required.
- Yarns are checked to ensure they are straight, flat and aligned.
- Maintain continuous flow of yarn during production
- Tension settings are adjusted to meet production requirements.
- Sensors are checked for operation as required.
- Broken yarn is identified.
- Yarn is retied using weaver's knots, alternative tying tools or methods.
- Yarn flow is maintained according to the need and speed of the machine and OHS practices.
- Creels are reloaded with cones as required to achieve continuous flow of yarn.
- Machine or product faults are reported or addressed.
- Complete operations
- Complete records