Dyeing and Finishing Machinery

Nowadays, whole textile industry tends to full automation owing to the development of electronics, and will enter the era of Factory Automation (FA) in the near future. In the field of dyeing and finishing too, countermeasures to small quantity production with many sorts and deversification, efforts to high-grade and specialization, are making high progress. Our main purpose of observing the 4th OTEMAS is to inspect the ability of realizing Factory Automation in dyeing and finishing in the future. The main themes of the 2nd and the 3rd OTEMAS were energy saving and automation, respectively. At the 4th OTEMAS, gradual and solid efforts towards Factory Automation were found in many displayed machines, although Factory Automation in dyeing and finishing appears to be more difficult than in spinning and weaving because of including many complicated problems related to chemistry, thermodynamics and hydrodynamics. Interesting machines or engineering systems observed at the 4th OTEMAS will be presented in the following.