Monitoring and Knowledge-Based Expert Systems in Spinning

Abstract

Since the eighties, monitoring systems that control and manage yarn production have appeared in the spinning mills. Different architectures of monitoring systems, sensors and actuators, and their limitations are discussed in the first part of this chapter. The second part of the chapter tries to answer the following questions: What is a KBES?, How does it work? and How is it implemented? Non-exhaustive studies define the different functions that such a system can perform in the area of spinning. An industrial application is presented and discussed.