Spinning Division of SITRA has been offering the following services to the industry.

Quality Management

Provides expertise and conducts awareness programmes on:

• ISO 9001 : 2000 Procedures.
• Total Quality Management (TQM) & Quality Circle (Q.C.).
• Total Productive Maintenance (TPM).
• ‘Kaizen’ concept for Spinning Mills.
• “Failure Mode & Effect Analysis” – Concept and Application.
• Application of Quality Function Deployment (QFD) & Just-in-Time (JIT) theory in textile industry.

Product Development

• Technical Textiles from conventional fibres like cotton, polyester, nylon etc. using short staple spinning machines.
• Technical textiles from high performance fibres like Aramid, Flame Retardant Viscose, Flame Retardant Polyester, etc.
• Jute blended fabrics.
• Pineapple leaf fibre extraction.

Spinning Trials

• Processing of cotton, man-made fibres and their blends as per mills request.
• Achievable yarn quality for different raw materials.
• Optimisation of process parameters.
• Jute blended yarn spinning.

Maintenance Audit

• Analysis of machinery condition.
• Maintenance schedules.
• Manpower for maintenance.
• Maintenance records.
• Maintenance accessories.
• Lubrication.
• House keeping.

Quality Audit

• Quality control schedules.
• Manpower for Quality Assurance Departments.
• Achievable yarn quality for the type of machinery available in the mills and process control measures to attain targets.

The other consultancy services offered by this division are:

• Trouble shooting.
• Machinery evaluation and assessment.
• Openness study in blow room.
• Air-jet spinning concept & applications.
• Friction spinning concept & applications