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Autocoro 480 A step ahead
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Autocoro in a new dimension The success story of the market leader continues. The Autocoro 480 makes your yarns the measure of all things
Success speaks for itself Throughout the world, the name Autocoro is synonymous with top performance in rotor spinning technology. Today, two of three automatic rotor spinning machines sold annually throughout the world are already Autocoro. This equals more than two million spinning units around the globe. Passionate about your goals To obtain this, not only a long tradition in machinery manufacturing or most up-to-date production technology are needed. Much more is required here. We call it the “Autocoro spirit�: the ambition of more than 300 Oerlikon Schlafhorst developing engineers to help our customers to become the most profitable and leading spinning mills of the world when quality is concerned. For example with the Autocoro 480; advanced technology in a new dimension, with up to 480 spinning positions.
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> Freedom at the highest level The Autocoro 480: advanced technology for all applications and your basis for the coveted Belcoro label Page 04
> Neatly spun, perfectly wound Produce out-and-out quality: with Corolab XF and Autocoro package engineering Page 06
> Turn yarn ideas quickly into kilograms Use Fancynation to achieve the desired fancy yarn in a convenient and productive way Page 08
The cleanest Belcoro yarn ever: Corolab XF with foreign fibre detection To enable you to set standards in a global market that is increasingly quality-conscious, the new Corolab XF combines classical yarn clearing with 100% foreign material detection. For even higher quality standards teamed with outstanding productivity.
> More profit automatically Top productivity through intelligent automation
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Your know-how network worldwide Oerlikon Schlafhorst is there for you at any time and in any place around the world. With technological innovations that get you to the top. With individual service and competent advice. And with highly qualified specialists who carry out trials just for you and adapt your machines optimally to your requirements.
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Freedom at the highest level Today very coarse yarns, tomorrow very fine ones and the day after tomorrow the latest, most fashionable fibres – every application is perfect with the new Autocoro 480
The hallmark of premium quality Utilise the brand name of the most sought-after rotor yarns worldwide: Belcoro. The Autocoro 480 offers you the optimum conditions for obtaining certification according to the Belcoro quality criteria. Thus you demonstrate to your customers your commitment to the highest quality criteria – today and tomorrow. The Belcoro quality signet is synonymous with yarns and textiles of a quality that can only be attained with an Autocoro machine, for every Autocoro embodies the textile-technological know-how of Oerlikon Schlafhorst – know-how that is instrumental in realising any application any current trend quickly and at the highest quality level.
Pick up any trend quickly and efficiently with Oerlikon Schlafhorst: there’s always a multitude of tried and tested spinning components for your Autocoro 480 to serve new and established applications. And in addition, comprehensive advice on current fashion trends that takes account of your individual requirements and process integration.
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The Corobox SE 12: 250,000 units worldwide testify to its all-round ability The Corobox SE 12 speaks for itself. As the market‘s leading high-tech box, it meets every conceivable requirement in respect of quality, flexibility and productivity. The reliable allrounder – engineered and made in Germany – excels with several technological highlights: The Twin Disc bearing of the Corobox SE 12 permits permanent high speeds of 150,000 rpm at 480 spinning positions. Coarse yarns are spun at take-up speeds of up to 300 m/min – giving you maximum output every day.
The Corobox SE 12 always gives you top spinning productivity, even for very fine yarns.
All options – Flexibility and top yarn quality for all yarn counts, raw materials, blends and applications
All weaving and knitting yarns – For home textiles, such as curtains, tablecloths, bed linen, towels etc. – For garment fabrics from tip to toe: business, casual, outdoor, sportswear, knitted garments
All yarns from coarse to fine from one sliver – Draft range from 20 to 450fold – Yarn counts from Ne 4 to Ne 60 – Ideal for processing coarse slivers up to 7 ktex too
Efficient fancy yarn production – High-class fancy yarns adjusted quickly and precisely thanks to Fancynation and reproducible at any time on all machines – Same take-up speed for smooth yarns and fancy yarns – Higher productivity than any other fancy yarn system
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Neatly spun, perfectly wound Produce out-and-out quality: with Corolab XF, high-performance piecing technology and Autocoro package engineering
Enhance your quality, produce profitably Ratchet up your quality standards even more – with Autocoro 480, you always produce economically, even with an increasing number of clearer cuts. Three or four Coromat units offer sufficient capacity to execute a high number of piecing processes quickly and reliably.
Corolab XF detects everything that shouldn’t be incorporated into the yarn. Thus you always spin 100 percent quality.
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Nothing remains in the yarn that shouldn’t be there: the new Corolab XF with foreign fibre detection For the Autocoro 480, we have considerably improved the established standard for digital yarn clearing. The innovative two-in-one system Corolab XF detects and records not only every single thick place or thin place but also foreign material in the yarn – with the utmost precision. The tiniest detail will not escape your Corolab XF – not even “stowaways”. Simply enter the desired parameters centrally on the Informator: e.g. the fault length in mm or the fault thickness in percent.
Invisible, digitally controlled piecings Digitally controlled and precisely positioned, every Coromat produces 100% identical piecings. The consistent sensor control provided by market-leading Corolab technology guarantees piecings that are indistinguishable from the parent yarn in the finished textiles.
The Coromat: guaranteed precise piecing for maximum yarn quality – even with phenomenal productivity.
Autocoro packages – prized by every downstream processing plant The “internal architecture” of your packages is a very important efficiency factor in downstream processing. A perfect package structure guarantees trouble-free, productive processes there. This is why the Oerlikon Schlafhorst research and development team works continuously on new solutions for packages that run even faster and more reliably. And this is why Autocoro packages exhibit optimum unwinding characteristics, an excellent flank structure and uniform density. Always a made-to-measure package format With the versatile setting options available on the Autocoro 480, you supply your customer with exactly the package he needs: up to 5 kg in weight and in all established package formats.
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Turn yarn ideas quickly into kilograms Use Fancynation to achieve the desired fancy yarn in a convenient and productive way
The quickest fancy yarn system Fancynation and the Autocoro 480 are made for each other. So you don’t need any technological or service partner apart from us to realise your fancy yarn production. And with Fancynation, you produce high-grade fancy yarns at take-up speeds of up to 300 m/min – and thus more efficiently than with any other system. Quality starts with the spinbox: the Single Drive Sliver Intake (SDSI) permits a precisely metered fibre feed at every spinning position – a perfect precondition for reproducible fancy yarns.
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Effect design with FancyPilot – Effect design on the laptop – Storing of the parameters on a memory card – Transferable to one or more Autocoro 480 – Your fancy yarn production commences
Design fancy yarns simply on your laptop. The software tool FancyPilot generates the production data for your Autocoro 480 directly from the design: simply transfer the data to the Informator – and fancy yarn production commences immediately.
Really simple, operator-friendly, profitable The user-friendly fancy yarn software FancyPilot forms the basis of Fancynation. With FancyPilot, you create and simulate effects in the minimum of time. And you benefit from quicker set-up times during the production and reproduction of your fancy yarns – with maximum production reliability and flexibility too. Spinning with confidence: see in advance what your fancy yarn will look like See what will be possible with your fancy yarn even before production starts – in 3D simulations of woven and knitted fabrics. The production of your fancy yarns is also undertaken with maximum assurance: digital Corolab technology monitors your fancy yarns reliably at every spinning position for the best possible quality. This gives you 100 percent control over the quality of your fancy yarn. Effects in existing yarns can also be reproduced quickly and simply. Taking the pattern as a basis, Fancynation analyses the effect style and generates a data record for the Autocoro 480 from this. Your own fancy yarn library Fancynation acts as the “memory” of your fancy yarn production at the same time. You can access all spinning and piecing settings for fancy yarns already produced on your machines in a database. This enables you to reproduce any yarn quickly at any time and thus to react speedily and profitably to your customers’ wishes.
Even fancy yarns can be produced at maximum take-up speeds and on 480 spinning positions: the Autocoro 480 makes it possible.
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More profit automatically Secure maximum production output through intelligent automation
Even raw materials with low spinning stability
High production levels with three or four Coromat units Small lots, yarns with low twist, coarse yarns, small packages, fancy yarns: with the Autocoro 480, you are assured of decisive performance advantages. With three or four Coromat units, superior machine efficiency is obtained. Even quite small lots can be produced more economically.
can be processed with greater efficiency. For in spite of higher piecing rates, the precise Coromat technology guarantees your productivity.
High-tech in every detail: every Coromat is a technical and technological masterstroke of the Oerlikon Schlafhorst engineers. Its sturdy construction, intelligent control and simple operation all help to ensure that your investment pays off right from the outset.
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Efficiency comparison Machine with 480 spinning positions
100
Efficiency (%)
98
3 Coromat units
96 94
4 Coromat units
92 90 88
10/6
20/ 12
34 / 20
40 / 24
50 / 30
Yarn count Nm/Ne
Tolerance range Ideal yarn length
Within a yarn length tolerance defined by you, EIS on-line calculates the optimum
Always choose the shortest route with EIS Only when the Coromat is positioned accurately to the millimetre at the spinning position, it can produce optimum piecings and execute package doffing cleanly. On the Autocoro 480, this is ensured by top-quality high-tech components which will work precisely for many years. Moreover, the Oerlikon Schlafhorst engineers have developed an intelligent control system for the Coromat. EIS, the Event Identification System on the Autocoro 480, guides every Coromat to the spinning position closest to it. EIS also detects where piecing is not possible – e.g. due to a missing sliver – and instead guides the Coromat to a spinning position where it can do something useful. Thus the piecing potential of all available Coromat units is always used to best effect. Spinning instead of waiting thanks to flowing package doffing In order to further optimise package doffing, EIS offers the possibility of “flowing” package doffing, meaning that full packages can continue to be wound within a preset tolerance range if the Coromat is not close by at the time. On the other hand, packages which are already wound up to 95 percent of the desired yarn length, for example, can also be doffed if the Coromat happens to be passing the spinning position. The tolerance values for flowing package doffing can be freely defined. The result is that spinning positions only have to wait for the Coromat for the minimum of time and the capacity of the Coromat units is optimally utilised, thus increasing the productivity of the machine.
time for doffing the package.
Production instead of waiting: the Corobox SE 12 guarantees long production times. Its contactless rotor bearing, the Magnetic Rotor Positioning System (MRPS), reduces wear and the maintenance outlay on your spinbox.
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Optimising quality simply “on the fly” The Autocoro 480 makes quality controllable. All production settings are entered centrally at the Informator. The Intelligent Drive System (IDS) permits electronic quality optimisation via frequency inverters. These settings include e.g. the infinitely variable speed adjustment of all components involved in the spinning process, such as opening rollers or rotors. Even the draft and yarn twist can be adjusted – and all this can be done during normal spinning operation.
Higher machine efficiency with EVA Spinning vacuum constantly at an optimum level
Spinning vacuum
Without EVA: only 94 % machine efficiency Machine efficiency 97 %
Optimum spinning vacuum Spinning vacuum too low
Machine efficiency 90 %
Spinning vacuum
Time Optimal with EVA: 97 % machine efficiency Average machine efficiency 97 %
Time
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Optimum spinning vacuum
Greater spinning stability, lower costs with EVA EVA stands for “Electronic Vacuum Adjustment”. Suction systems equipped with EVA guarantee a constant vacuum at every spinbox – independent of the filling level of the collecting chambers for dirt, fibres and yarn and regardless of the machine length. With EVA, you can adjust the spinning vacuum at your Autocoro 480 precisely, from 60 to 95 mbar. For you this offers the advantage of high spinning stability, fewer yarn breaks and maximum machine productivity. At the same time, the optimised spinning vacuum means a lower energy demand.
e-save by Oerlikon Schlafhorst: considerably lower energy costs Developing more energy-efficient technologies is a top priority for our engineers. After all, Autocoro spinning mills invest about five percent of their annual turnover in energy – and energy costs are rising continuously. On the Autocoro 480, several factors contribute to such marked reductions in consumption. The spinning vacuum, electronically optimised by EVA, not only maximises productivity but also has a positive effect on power consumption, for 20 percent of the energy requirement of an Autocoro spinning mill is devoted solely to producing the spinning vacuum. More efficient through innovative, detailed solutions Further improvements that cut the power consumption include an intelligent system layout and the improved Coromat technology.
The Corolab system utilises energy-saving diodes and direct climatisation in the spinbox area has a positive effect too.
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Technical Data Autocoro 480 Machine type Oerlikon Schlafhorst rotor spinning machine Autocoro 480 with 48 to 480 spinning positions – Automatic piecing with digital technology – Automatic doffing of full packages – Automatic box cleaning – Sectional structure with 24 spinning positions per section – Spindle gauge 230 mm
Tube dimensions tapered smooth/flanged – 4°20‘ Ø 59/33 x 170 mm/Ø 59/28 x 170 mm – 3°50‘ Ø 63/40 x 170 mm/Ø 63/28 x 170 mm – 3°30‘ Ø 62/41 x 170 mm/Ø 62/30 x 170 mm – 1°50‘ Ø 65/54 x 170 mm/Ø 65/43 x 170 mm
Technological data Raw materials Natural and manmade fibres and their blends Fibre length up to 60 mm
Take-up speeds Depending on the machine length with 30° angle of wind: – Standard equipment up to 408 spinning units with roller guiding of yarn guide rods – Cylindrical 180 to 220 m/min – Tapered 135 to 200 m/min
Yarn count range 145 to 10 tex/Nm 7 to 100/Ne 4 to 60 Sliver feed 7.0 to 2.5 ktex/Nm 0.14 to Nm 0.40/ Ne 0.08 to Ne 0.24 Draft 20 to 450 fold (IDS) Basic machine – IDS Intelligent Drive System Rotor speed, take-up tension, spinning vacuum, opening roller speed, yarn twist and draft are infinitely variable – Conveyor belt per machine side, for package removal – Optimised removal of fibres/waste on the trash removal conveyor belt. * – Central lubrication and bearing temperature monitoring Spinbox Corobox SE 12 – SDSI Single Drive Sliver Intake, single-motordriven sliver intake Intake speed 0.1 to 8 m/min Draft range 20 to 450 fold (IDS) – Axial rotor bearings with MRPS Magnetic Rotor Positioning System or hybrid bearing assembly – Radial rotor bearings with Twin-Disc for rotor speeds of 40,000 to 150,000 rpm (IDS) – All Belcoro spinning components can be replaced simply and without tools Winding head Package formats – Cyl. packages up to 300 mm – HWP Heavy Weight Package for cylindrical packages up to 320 mm and 5.0 kg * – Tapered packages up to 4°20’ up to 270 mm * Tube dimensions cylindrical smooth/flanged – Ø 54 x 170 mm / Ø 54/42 x 170 mm
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Angle of wind 28°, 30°, 33°, 35°, 39°, 40°, 42°
– High take-up speed * Standard equipment from 432 spinning units, optional up to 408 spinning units with wearprotected, steel-sheathed, high-modulus carbon fibre yarn guide rods – Cylindrical 230 to 300 m/min – Tapered 195 to 255 m/min Yarn guide traverse – Cylindrical 147 to 155 mm – Tapered 147 to 150 mm – Traverse displacement is infinitely variable from 0 to 4 mm – Anti-patterning through periodic change of yarn guide motion Waxing device * – Wax roll continually driven. – A collector prevents any accumulation of wax particles in the Corobox area Stop upon reaching the yarn length or the package diameter – Length measuring device for the production of packages with defined yarn lengths or – Mechanical stop when the preset package diameter is attained Coromat – 1 to 4 Coromat units per machine * – Digital control with EIS Event Identification System for automatic, sensor-monitored piecing and package doffing with travel optimisation – Cleaning head for mechanical and pneumatic cleaning of rotor and spinbox, navel and doff tube – Digital optical piecing check – Tube magazine for selective feeding of 315 or 265 empty tubes. Automatic discharge at the push of a button – Flowing package doffing by presetting a tolerance yarn length to increase productivity
Suction system – EVA Electronic Vacuum Adjustment for electronically controlled constant spinning vacuum – Spinning vacuum 60 to 95 mbar (IDS) – Yarn residues, waste and fibres are collected separately in a two-chamber system – Possible connection to central waste disposal systems * – Spark detector Informator – Input of spinning parameters via touch screen operator panel – Evaluation of data by Informator – Representation of data on screen or via a printer Corolab XQ and Corolab XF Digital Technology * – Digital sensors Corolab XQ for the registration of yarn diameter deviations at every spinning position – Digital sensors Corolab XF for the registration of yarn diameter deviations and foreign material at every spinning position Fancy yarn device Fancynation * – Single-motor sliver intake SDSI Single Drive Sliver Intake, FancyBoard, control software and Informator interface – FancyPilot basic software for creating fancy yarns – FancyControl software for online control of effects – FancyOasys Gold software for extended 3D simulation – FancyProfile software for measuring effects at the yarn profile – FancyLink software for scanning foreign yarns and generating the fancy control data records Spinning cans Spinning can dimensions, round cans: Diameter 457 mm (17,5“) (two rows) 530 mm (20“) (three rows) Height 900 mm to 1,200 mm (36“ to 48“) Spinning can dimensions, rectangular cans: 220 mm width x 970 mm depth x 900 to 1,200 mm Height (1,070 mm when using can supports) Automatic package removal systems * – Removal systems such as e.g. single palletizer or Autoflow – Distribution by Neuenhauser Maschinenbau GmbH & Co. KG, Neuenhaus, Germany * Option
Spinning positions Sections Net weight (without Coromat) kg
Length L1 1 or 2 Coromat units mm
Length L2 3 or 4 Coromat units mm
48
2
9,300
11,602
72
3
10,780
14,414
96
4
12,260
17,226
120
5
13,740
20,038
144
6
15,220
22,850
168
7
16,700
25,662
192
8
18,180
28,474
29,495
216
9
19,660
31,286
32,307
240
10
21,140
34,098
35,119
264
11
22,620
36,910
37,931
288
12
24,100
39,722
40,743
312
13
25,580
42,534
43,555
336
14
27,060
45,346
46,367
360
15
28,540
48,158
49,179
384
16
30,020
50,970
51,991
408
17
31,500
53,782
54,803
432
18
32,980
56,594
57,615
456
19
34,460
59,406
60,427
480
20
35,940
62,218
63,239
Net weight Coromat kg 540
Autocoro 480.
Oerlikon Schlafhorst‘s quality management system complies with the requirements of EN ISO 9001.
About this brochure Research and development never ceases. This may mean that some statements about the Autocoro may be rendered obsolete by technical progress. The illustrations are selected for informative perspectives only. They may contain extras which are not standard.
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