Reduction of unscheduled maintenance of bulk carpet fiber texturizing equipment

This project involved the measurement and reduction of unscheduled equipment maintenance in the final stage of a nylon-6 bulk continuous filament process. The SINTEX operation was selected because the cost of poor quality (COPQ) was estimated to be higher here than elsewhere in the process. An accu...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Benson, Linda A.
Other Authors: Systems Engineering
Format: Dissertation
Published: Virginia Tech 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/40803
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-01262010-020249/