- Industry: Government; Labor
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A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in inspecting and winding printed fabric in tubing department. Responsibilities include:
* Confers with production planner and consults work order to determine sequence of cloth styles to process.
* Directs delivery of specified fabric to work stations.
* Informs cloth examiner, machine of quantity of cloth to wind onto tubes and of customer quality specifications.
* Oversees inspection of cloth being processed to ensure detection of defects, such as wrinkles, seams, and color variations.
* Submits samples of cloth to colorist for shade matching.
* Occasionally weighs and labels special orders for shipping.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up, repairs, and adjusts quilting machines, utilizing knowledge of machine construction and function and charts. Responsibilities include:
* Analyzes charts to determine adjustments necessary to effect change in quilting design.
* Selects cams that will alter movement of machine bed and needle stroke to produce specified design, and installs cams on machine, using wrenches.
* Synchronizes looper or shuttle motion with needle stroke, using screwdriver.
* Listens to machine and observes stitching to locate defects in machine operation.
* Dismantles machine and repairs broken or defective parts, such as motors, bobbins or loopers, needles, and feed dogs.
* Turns screws to regulate tension on thread, length of needle stroke, and rate of feed, according to type of fabric or thread.
* Cleans and oils machines.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up, adjusts, and repairs group of textile machines (usually of one type, called section). Responsibilities include:
* Transmits orders of supervisor master title of section to workers and ensures that orders and safety rules are followed.
* Patrols section to inspect work for quality and to determine operating condition of machinery.
* Reads production meters or tickets and records total number of units produced.
* Examines laboratory sample reports to determine machine adjustments needed to meet company specifications.
* Adjusts and repairs machines.
* Trains new workers and assigns workers to stations.
* May be designated according to section as section leader and cards machine setter; section leader and drawing and combers machine setter; section leader and opening and picking machine setter; section leader and roving frames machine setter; section leader and spinning machine setter; section leader and winding and twisting machine setter.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up, repairs, and adjusts yarn polishing (glazing) machines. Responsibilities include:
* Mixes finishing solutions.
* Separates thread packages according to color and type to prevent faulty mixing of customer orders.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up, adjusts, and repairs knitting machines to knit hose, garments, and cloth according to specifications, using knowledge of machine function. Responsibilities include:
* Reads work order and confers with supervisor or engineer to determine knitting machine setup.
* Inserts cams, links, buttons, or needle jacks in pattern chain to set up machine to knit hose, garment, or cloth according to pattern design chart.
* Observes operation of machine and examines knitted material to detect defects.
* Turns setscrews and handwheels to adjust machine parts, such as gears and cams, and to synchronize yarn carriers, needles, dividers, and sinkers. Repairs and replaces machine parts, using handtools.
* Aligns and straightens needles, sinkers, and dividers, using pliers.
* Cleans and oils machines.
* May only repair and adjust knitting machines and be designated line fixer.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who patrols aisle between rayon-spinning (forming and winding) machines to detect malfunctions.
* Diagnoses causes of failures.
* Sets up, adjusts, repairs, or replaces units, using handtools.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who instructs workers in operation of textile machines and in product inspection techniques, using knowledge of machines and processes. Responsibilities include:
* Plans training schedule to ensure workers achieve standard production in specified time.
* Demonstrates methods of threading and operating machines, examining product for defects, and grading product according to quality standards.
* Evaluates worker performances to ensure achievement of production standards and maintains progress reports.
* Observes machines to detect operation malfunctions and notifies designated personnel.
* May be designated according to specialty as knitting instructor; looping instructor; product inspection instructor; creeler instructor; warper instructor.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up and adjusts looms that produce needle (punched) felt. Responsibilities include:
* Selects specified needle boards and bolts them to holders, using wrenches.
* Changes driving gears to adjust speed of automatic feed and punching mechanisms, using wrenches or turning knobs.
* Threads bat through needle board, attaches bat to rewind spindle, and starts machine.
* Makes adjustments to maintain weight specifications, and replaces worn or broken needle boards.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up and operates battery of machines in tandem to produce needle (punched) felt products from raw materials. Responsibilities include:
* Turns screws to adjust comb and stripper rolls of garnett machine to produce specified bat i. Installs specified needle board into needle loom to punch together loose bats into needle (punched) felt.
* Turns handwheels to adjust tension between steam heated calender rolls which press down nap and firm felt.
* Turns handwheels to lower circular knives to trim felt to specified width.
* Fills size tank, positions automatic spray gun, and turns valve handle on airhose to spray size onto felt.
* Turns knobs to regulate temperature and blower of drying oven.
* Aligns and bolts cutting dies in ram and bed of automatic diecutting machine to cut felt into specified forms.
* Turns knobs to synchronize speed of machines and conveyors.
* Aligns feed guides.
* Starts machine, observes operations to detect malfunction, and examines work to determine conformity to specifications.
* Replaces worn needle boards.
* Sharpens circular knives with hone.
* May repair needle boards.
* May assist maintenance mechanic in repairing machines.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who verifies speed of spindles and travelers on yarn twisting and spinning frames, using stroboscope, and makes minor adjustments. Responsibilities include:
* Turns knob to adjust stroboscope setting to spindle speed specifications.
* Directs stroboscope light beam onto revolving bobbin.
* Observes bobbin and traveler to detect illusion of movement indicating variance between spindle speed and speed setting of stroboscope.
* Turns knob to synchronize stroboscope light oscillations with speed of malfunctioning spindle, and records incorrect spindle speed as shown on stroboscope r.p.m.
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* Makes adjustments, such as tightening screws and removing waste from travelers.
* Notifies machine fixer of machines requiring repairs, such as replacement of spindles and travelers.
* May use twist-test machine to determine twist (number of turns per inch) in yarn to verify accuracy of machine setup.
* May test yarn tension, using tensiometer.
Industry:Professional careers
