Home > Terms > English (EN) > forming yardage-control operator

forming yardage-control operator

A professional who controls temperature of bushings and speed of winders on fiberglass forming machines to maintain specified yardage per pound in sliver. Respnsibilities include:

  • Monitors bushing control panels, temperature charts, and indicators to determine if temperature of furnace bushings, molten glass over bushings, forehearths, and canals meet specifications.
  • Obtains test skein of sliver from test-skein winder and dries skein for specified time in electric furnace.
  • Weighs dried test skein to obtain weight in grams and converts weight to yards per pound to determine deviations from specifications, using yardage conversion chart.
  • Turns digital dial on bushing control panel to regulate temperature of bushings.
  • Tests voltage on compensator units that vary speed of collets (winding rings), using voltage meter.
  • Determines bushing temperature specified for voltage reading from table and turns button to set temperature and regulate speed of collet.
  • Records data, such as shift, crew, date, time of temperature reading, time of yardage reading, type of sliver produced, temperatures, and adjustments made, in yardage control log.
0
Collect to Blossary

Member comments

You have to log in to post to discussions.

Terms in the News

Billy Morgan

Sports; Snowboarding

The British snowboarder Billy Morgan has landed the sport’s first ever 1800 quadruple cork. The rider, who represented Great Britain in the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, was in Livigno, Italy, when he achieved the man-oeuvre. It involves flipping four times, while body also spins with five complete rotations on a sideways or downward-facing axis. The trick ...

Marzieh Afkham

Broadcasting & receiving; News

Marzieh Afkham, who is the country’s first foreign ministry spokeswoman, will head a mission in east Asia, the state news agency reported. It is not clear to which country she will be posted as her appointment has yet to be announced officially. Afkham will only be the second female ambassador Iran has had. Under the last shah’s rule, Mehrangiz Dolatshahi, a ...

Weekly Packet

Language; Online services; Slang; Internet

Weekly Packet or "Paquete Semanal" as it is known in Cuba is a term used by Cubans to describe the information that is gathered from the internet outside of Cuba and saved onto hard drives to be transported into Cuba itself. Weekly Packets are then sold to Cuban's without internet access, allowing them to obtain information just days - and sometimes hours - after it ...

Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB)

Banking; Investment banking

The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) is an international financial institution established to address the need in Asia for infrastructure development. According to the Asian Development Bank, Asia needs $800 billion each year for roads, ports, power plants or other infrastructure projects before 2020. Originally proposed by China in 2013, a signing ...

Spartan

Online services; Internet

Spartan is the codename given to the new Microsoft Windows 10 browser that will replace Microsoft Windows Internet Explorer. The new browser will be built from the ground up and disregard any code from the IE platform. It has a new rendering engine that is built to be compatible with how the web is written today. The name Spartan is named after the ...

Featured Terms

Fernando Fabrega
  • 0

    Terms

  • 1

    Blossaries

  • 0

    Followers

Industry/Domain: Restaurants Category: Cafe

altura coffee

"Altura" a word from Spanish which means height describes Mexican coffee that has been high or mountain-grown.

Contributor

Featured blossaries

Wind energy company of China

Category: Business   1 6 Terms

longest English words

Category: Other   1 6 Terms