This information is required for Winder vibration form (under Trends & reports in the section MONITORING).

1. Introduction

This article guides you through the steps to set the winder in maintenance mode correctly and be able to perform the vibration measurements.

1.1 Safety

Arrange clothing and hair so that they will not get caught in the machine's moving parts. Wear safety shoes.
DO NOT touch rotating parts during operation.
DO NOT touch the power switches on the control panel during normal operation.
Confirm that the machine’s operating parts are stopped before connecting the power.
Close all machine covers before operation.
Start winding only when paper tubes are put onto the bobbin-holder.

1.2 Control switch panel

The control switch panel is located at the front of the winder and is used to operate the winder.

Image 1: Control switch panel

Push buttons and LED display on the control switch panel:

Image 2: Push buttons and LED display

1.3 Winder powered on

Make sure pressured air and electrical power are available on the winder and emergency stops are lifted and acknowledged.

If all is well the winder should show no errors on the LED display, Manual turret PB LED and Winder stop PB LED are ON.

Image 3: Winder started with no errors

2. Preparing the winder

2.1 Homing turret-table

When the winder is powered on, the home position of the turret-table needs to be found.

Pressing Manual turret PB rotates the turret-table to the home position.

Image 4: Manual turret pushbutton to rotate turret-table

After the homing is done the Manual turret PB LED is OFF, Winder stop PB LED and Winder start PB LED are ON.

Image 5: Winder ready

By pressing Manual turret PB again, the turret-table will rotate to the threading position.

The bobbin holder to be measured for vibrations, is the one on the bottom position.

Image 6: Bobbin holder on the lower position

2.2 Installing tubes

Make sure the bobbin holders have their tubes installed. This is important not to damage the chuck rings when running at high speed!

In order to install a tube, pressure must be built up inside the bobbin holder to be able to compress the springs.

Push the Tube PB on the control switch panel.

Image 7: Push Tube PB

If the springs are compressed, the Tube PB LED is ON, and the tubes can be places over the bobbin holder.

Push again Tube PB to clamp the tube on the bobbin holder.

Image 8: Tube PB LED ON

To perform vibration measurements, Vandewiele offers a calibrated and balanced aluminum tube to guarantee each measurement is performed with the same conditions.

Reference:

Image 9: Calibrated, balanced aluminum tube installed

If you do not have the calibrated, balanced aluminum tube, please always use new tubes of the same quality for each measurement.

Reference:

Image 10: New paper tubes installed

3. Changing the speed

To change the speed of the bobbin holder shaft, the HMI or maintenance computer with the TMT winder software is required.

Open the WDC Property dialog by clicking this button on top.

Select the corresponding winder in the drop-down menu on the right of the screen.

Image 11: WDC Property dialog

Enter the desired winding speed and press ENTER. The background color of the entry field will turn yellow to indicate a change has been made, but not yet sent to the winder.