Global Journal of Science Frontier Research: D

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Standard Procedure and Time Setting for Servicing of Single

Jersey and Double Jersey Knitting Machine
By Md. Ebrahim Shaikh, Md. Sanaullah Murad,Taposh Ranjan Sarker
& Tahmina Akhter
Northern University Bangladesh
Abstract- A study on standard procedure and time setting for servicing of single jersey and
double jersey knitting machine is done in this work. Servicing, maintenance, use of lubrications
procedure also studied in this project wok. Servicing is a very vital point for keep machine
performance well and for better fabric quality. Here we worked on single jersey and double jersey
knitting machines servicing procedure, and time setting.
Keywords: time setting, servicing of knitting machine, standard procedure.
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 Standard Procedure and Time Setting for
Servicing of Single Jersey and Double Jersey
Knitting Machine
Md. Ebrahim Shaikh α, Md. Sanaullah Murad σ,Taposh Ranjan Sarker ρ & Tahmina Akhter Ѡ

Abstract- A study on standard procedure and time setting for

II. Literature Review

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servicing of single jersey and double jersey knitting machine is
done in this work. Servicing, maintenance, use of lubrications
a) Circular Knitting Machine

Year
procedure also studied in this project wok. Servicing is a very
vital point for keep machine performance well and for better Knitted fabrics are produced by interlacing
fabric quality. Here we worked on single jersey and double loops of yarn and can be classified as weft knits and
warp knits. The knitting considered in this section is 251
jersey knitting machines servicing procedure, and time setting.
Keywords: time setting, servicing of knitting machine, machine knitting. [5]

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standard procedure. Circular knitting machine is widely used
throughout the knitting industry to produce fabric. This
I. Introduction machine can be built in almost any reasonable diameter

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n the world of textile technologies, there has been a and the small diameter of up to five, which are used for
lot of attempt going on to find out effective quality, wear. Machine for outerwear and innerwear may vary
productivity, efficiency and longevity. Circular knitting from 12 inch to 60 inch in diameter according to
machine is the first choice for knitted Fabric manufactures requirement. This machine can be used
manufacturers. It is widely used throughout the knitting either as fabric or for making garments completely with
industry to produce fabric for its productivity and user fancy stitch. Latch needle are commonly employed in all
friendliness. It has been designed and manufactured for modern circular machines because of their simple
mass production of knitted fabric. Huge range of action and also their ability to process more types of
diameter (12 inch to 60 inch) according to manufactures yarns.
requirement that is perfect for manufacturing outerwear b) Important Parts of Circular Knitting Machine
and innerwear. In this article I will explain how yarn pass Creel: The creel of the knitting machine controls the
through circular knitting machine. It has also been placement of yarn packages (bobbins) on all machines.
discussed about different parts of circular knitting Modern large-diameter circular machines use separate
machine with their functions. side creels, which are able to hold a large number of
a) Objectives packages in a vertical position. [1]
The objective of this study is to achieve the VDQ Pulley: It controls the quality of the product. Altering
following: the position of the tension pulley changes the G.S.M. of
1. To know standard procedure of servicing of single the fabric. If pulley moves towards the positive directive
jersey and double jersey knitting machine(circular). then the G.S.M. is decrease and in the reverse direction
2. To know proper time setting of servicing of single G.S.M will increase.
jersey and double jersey knitting machine(circular). Pulley Belt: It controls the rotation of the MPF wheel.
3. To reduce lost time of servicing of knitting machine.
Brush: It cleans the pulley belt.
4. To increase knitting machine efficiency.
5. To increase knitting machine longevity. Inlet and Outlet Stop Motion: It stops the machine
instantly when a yarn is break.
6. To improve fabric quality.
Yarn Guide: It helps the yarn to feed in the feeder.
Md. Ebrahim Shaikh α: Lecturer, Department of Textile Engineering,
MPF Wheel: It controls the speed of the MPF. Pulley belt
Northern University Bangladesh.
e-mail: butexianebrahimfme06@ gmail.com gives motion to the wheel.
Md. Sanaullah Murad σ: Lecturer, Department of Textile Engineering, MPF: It is Memminger positive feed. It gives positive
Northern University Bangladesh. e-mail: [email protected]
feed to the machine.
Taposh Ranjan Sarker ρ: Lecturer, Department of Textile Engineering,
Northern University Bangladesh. Feeder Ring: It is a ring where all feeders are placed
e-mail: [email protected] & together.
Tahmina Akhter Nipu Ѡ: Lecturer, Department of Textile Engineering,
Northern University Bangladesh. e-mail: [email protected] Feeder: Feeder helps yarn to feed in to the machine.

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Needle Track: Where all needles are placed together in c) Maintenance

a decent design. Maintenance is a Procedure by Means of Which
Needle: It is a principal element of the knitting machine. We Can Maintain Active Functioning in Operation
Its help the yarn to create a loop.And by this way fabric according To the Behavior and Utility of Particular
are produce. Prior to yarn feeding the needle is raised to Elements/Substance. The efficient use of machinery
clear the old loop from the hook, and received the new relies on best technology of efficient drive and heating
loop above it on needle stem. The new loop is then systems combined with good maintenance in
enclosed in the needle hook as the needle starts to production. [6]
descend. i. Types of Maintenance
Sinker: It is the most important element of the machine. Schedule Maintenance: Here mainly all the
Its help to loop forming, knocking over and holding machines are checked on the basis of a fixed schedule
down the loop. of time. Different machine parts are opened, cleaned,
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lubricated, gauged and replaced if necessary.

Sinker Ring: Sinker ring is a ring. Where all sinkers are Preventive maintenance: It is "a routine for
Year

placed together. periodically inspecting" with the goal of "noticing small

Fabric-batching roller: The fabric, in tubular form, is problems and fixing them before major ones develop. [8]
261 Breakdown Maintenance: When a machine
drawn downwards from inside the needle cylinder by
tension rollers and is wound onto the fabric-batching stops due to failure of machine parts, then it is called
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roller of the winding-down frame. [4] machine breakdown. The maintenance that is done to
repair and make it ready to run is called breakdown
Cam Box: Where the cams are set horizontally.
maintenance.
Cam : The knitting cams are hardened steels and they
ii. Lubricants
are the assembly of different cam plates so that a track
Lubricant is a substance which is placed in
for butt can be arranged. Each needle movement is
between two mating parts which are in relative motion
obtained by means of cams acting on the needle butts. [2]
with each other, so that they can move without any
Lycra Attachment Device: Lycra is placed here and fed friction. At higher temperature they are expected to keep
to the machine. the moving parts apart to minimize wear. [9]
Lycra Stop Motion: It is one kind of stop motion to stop iii. Function of Lubricants
the machine when the Lycra is break. 1. To reduce the friction and wear between the contact
Cylinder : Needle track are situated here. surface.
2. To carry away the heat/to cool the moving elements.
Cylinder Balancer: It helps the cylinder to set in a proper
3. To keep the surface clean
alignment.
4. To prevent adhesion
Uniwave Lubrication: The Uniwave lubricator provides 5. To carry heavy loads
uniform lubrication to needles, cam tracks, lifters and 6. To prevent corrosion
other knitting machine components. The patented 7. To absorb shock and transmit hydraulic power.
nozzle construction separates the air-oil mixture into air
and droplets of oil. III. Materials and Methods
Adjustable Fan: This part removes lint, hairy fibre from a) Materials
yarn and others. To clean the dust by air flow.
Single Jersey Knitting Machine
Expander: To control the width of the knitted fabric. No Brand: Pailung, juinlung, Pillotelly
distortion of the knitting courses. Even take down Double Jersey Knitting Machine
tension in the knitting machine. As a result, an even Brand: Pailung, Juinlung
fabric structure is achieved over the entire fabric width.
b) Method
The deformation of the knitted fabric goods can be
Most single-jersey fabric is produced on circular
reduced. [7]
machines whose latch needle cylinder and sinker ring
Needle Detector: This part detects the any type of faults revolve through the stationary knitting cam systems that,
of needles. together with their yarn feeders, are situated at regular
Air Gun Nozzle: To feed the yarn; sometimes it is used intervals around the circumference of the cylinder. [3]
for cleaning purpose. The method we applied here is based on time
Take up roller: It is used to take-up the fabric from the and procedure system. We observed how they service
knitting machine. Take up roller also controls the proper machine and after that we applied to calculate the time
what they take. And how we can improve it after that we
tension on the fabric. [10]
observed to find out minimum time for servicing of
knitting machine. Below we described the process as a
flow chart.
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Table 1: Shows the Flow Chart of Single Jersey Knitting Machine (Servicing)

Sl. Responsible Standardize

Activities Who Remarks
No. Person Time (min)

To disconnect the MPF Line S.M-1 Knitting Master 1 Simultaneo

1 usly
To disconnect the MPF Belt S.M-2 Knitting Master
Both work
2 To break all the yarn from feeder SM-1+S.M-2 Knitting Master 1 from two
side
To take down fabric through manual drive S.M-1 Knitting Master Simultaneo
3 1

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To remove fabric from take down roller S.M-2 Knitting Master usly

Year
To run the M/C freely after giving oil on
S.M-1 Knitting Master Simultaneo
4 needle & sinker 20
To lay down fabric & prepare board to put usly
S.M-2 Knitting Master 1
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down needle & sinker
To disconnect all air pipe from needle &
S.M-1 Knitting Master

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sinker cambox Simultaneo
5 1
To disconnect all oil pipe from needle & usly
S.M-2 Knitting Master
sinker cambox
To open bolt & pin from Needle cambox& Both work
6 SM-1+S.M-2 Knitting Master 30 from two
Sinker Cambox.
usly
Both work
7 To put down all needle & sinker cambox SM-1+S.M-2 Knitting Master 5 from two
side
Both work
8 To open all needle & sinker from trick SM-1+S.M-2 Knitting Master 20 from two
side
To clean up the cylinder & take down Simultaneo
9 SM-1+S.M-2 Knitting Master 30
parts properly usly
Simultaneo
10 To clean up all needle & sinker properly SM-1+S.M-2 Knitting Master 20
usly
Simultaneo
11 To clean up all cambox properly SM-1+S.M-2 Knitting Master 25
usly
Simultaneo
12 To clean up all nozzle properly SM-1+S.M-2 Knitting Master 15
usly
Simultaneo
13 To check all needle &sinker SM-1+S.M-2 Knitting Master 40
usly
To check & clean up some others M/C
SM-1 Knitting Master
parts(Fan,MPF,Motor, VDQ,Panel board) Simultaneo
14 10
To check & clean up some others M/C usly
S.M-2 Knitting Master
parts(Grease, Gear Oil push)
Both work
15 Setting all needle & sinker SM-1+S.M-2 Knitting Master 30 from two
side
To keep all cambox on base & set
SM-1 Knitting Master Simultaneo
16 bollt,pin 30
usly
Setting all cambox S.M-2 Knitting Master
Both work
17 To tight all bolt properly SM-1+S.M-2 Knitting Master 20 from two
side
Simultaneo
18 Setting all nozzle properly SM-1+S.M-2 Knitting Master 2 usly
To feed all yarn through MPF to needle Both work
19 SM-1+S.M-2 Knitting Master
through feeder & give weight on yarn 30 from two
side
Simultaneo
20 To connect MPF Belt & Line SM-1+S.M-2 Knitting Master 2
usly
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To knit fabric through manual drive slowly SM-1 Knitting Master Simultaneo
21 5
To check yarn feeding on needle S.M-2 Knitting Master usly

To knit fabric through inch motion up to

SM-1 Knitting Master Simultaneo
22 take down roller 5
usly
To clean laid fabric & board S.M-2 Knitting Master

Total 353

Now, Table-2 shows the Flow Chart of Double Jersey Knitting Machine (Servicing)
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Table 2: Flow Chart of Double Jersey Knitting Machine (Servicing)

Year

Standardize
Sl. Responsible
Activities Who Time Remarks
No. Person
281 (min)
To disconnect the MPF Line S.M-1 Knitting Master
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1 1 Simultaneously
To disconnect the MPF Belt S.M-2 Knitting Master

2 To break all the yarn from feeder SM-1+S.M-2 Knitting Master 1 Both work from two side

To take down fabric through manual drive S.M-1 Knitting Master

3 1 Simultaneously
To remove fabric from take down roller S.M-2 Knitting Master
To run the M/C freely after giving oil on
S.M-1 Knitting Master
needle
4 20 Simultaneously
To lay down fabric & prepare board to put
S.M-2 Knitting Master
down needle
To disconnect all air pipe from Cylinder &
S.M-1 Knitting Master
Dial cambox
5 1 Simultaneously
To disconnect all oil pipe from Cylinder &
S.M-2 Knitting Master
Dial cambox
To open bolt & pin from Cylinder & Dial
6 SM-1+S.M-2 Knitting Master 20 Both work from two side
cambox
7 To put down all Cylinder & Dial cambox SM-1+S.M-2 Knitting Master 15 Both work from two side
To open all needle from Cylinder & Dial
8 SM-1+S.M-2 Knitting Master 50 Both work from two side
trick
To clean up the cylinder,Dial& take down
9 SM-1+S.M-2 Knitting Master 40 Simultaneously
parts properly
10 To clean up all needle properly SM-1+S.M-2 Knitting Master 20 Simultaneously

11 To clean up all cambox properly SM-1+S.M-2 Knitting Master 40 Simultaneously

12 To clean up all nozzle properly SM-1+S.M-2 Knitting Master 15 Simultaneously

13 To check all needle SM-1+S.M-2 Knitting Master 30 Simultaneously

To check & clean up some others M/C
SM-1 Knitting Master
parts(Fan,MPF,Motor, VDQ,Panel board)
14 20 Simultaneously
To check & clean up some others M/C
S.M-2 Knitting Master
parts(Grease,Gear Oil push)

15 Setting all needle SM-1+S.M-2 Knitting Master 70 Both work from two side

To keep all cambox on base & set bollt,pin SM-1 Knitting Master
Simultaneously
16 Setting all cambox S.M-2 Knitting Master 60

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To tight all bolt, pin properly SM-1+S.M-2 Knitting Master Both work from two side

17 Setting all nozzle properly SM-1+S.M-2 Knitting Master 5 Simultaneously

Insert tube fabric at take down roller for
drawn yarn
18 SM-1+S.M-2 Knitting Master 60 Both work from two side
To feed all yarn through MPF to needle
through feeder & drawn yarn
19 To connect MPF Belt & Line SM-1+S.M-2 Knitting Master 5 Simultaneously

To knit fabric through manual drive slowly SM-1 Knitting Master

20 20 Simultaneously
To check yarn feeding on needle S.M-2 Knitting Master

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To knit fabric through inch motion up to
SM-1 Knitting Master

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21 take down roller 5 Simultaneously
To clean laid fabric & board S.M-2 Knitting Master
Total 500 1
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IV. Results and Discussions Because there are more no. of needle, sinker,

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cam box, cam are used and less time used in machine
From the table 3, we can see that there is dia 30X24 GG.
different type of machine dia. Here most time is used in Because there are no. of needle, sinker, cam
machine dia 42x24 GG. box, cam are less
Table 3: Result of Single Jersey Knitting Machine

Machine Machine No. of No. of No. of Cam Dia Wise

No. of Cam
No. Dia Needle Sinker Box Duration
1 30x24 GG 2260 2260 96 96 298 min
2 34X24 GG 2562 2562 102 102 320 min
3 38X24 GG 2864 2864 114 114 340 min
4 40X24 GG 3014 3014 128 128 350 min
5 42X24 GG 3166 3166 134 134 360 min

From The Table 4, we can see that there is servicing method, they would take more time for
different type of machine dia. Here most time is used in servicing a knitting machine. There was no time limit as
machine dia 44x18 GG. well as any standard procedure method. There was no
Because there is more no. of needle, cam box, fixed team as well as any responsible person. Here we
cam are used and less time used in machine dia 30X18 fixed a team standard time and responsible person.
GG. We also want to say that it’s a very long term
Because there are no. of needle, cam box, cam process to get the result of machine longevity but if we
are less practice this process regularly we will be able to reduce
the process loss time of knitting machine servicing.
Table 4: Result of Double Jersey Knitting Machine
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