Oerlikon Fibrevision Ltd – Monitoring Excellence

Fibrevision is a UK based technology company that specialises in dynamic measurement of textile yarns, with market leading products in On-Line Monitoring, Sensors as well as Instruments for both At Line and Laboratory testing.

Established in Macclesfield, England in 1995 under Managing Director Malcolm Hinchliffe together with a dedicated team of engineering personnel, all of whom have long experience in the synthetic fibre industry. Fibrevision’s key competence is the ability to bring together process application knowledge together with sensor technology, signal processing expertise and software to provide both OEMs and End Users with the market leading and cost effective products for all synthetic fibre measurement, monitoring and dynamic testing applications.

The products - On-Line Monitoring

Fibrevision’s On-Line Monitoring products all share the same system architecture with distributed electronics and an advanced graphical user interface with multilingual capabilities. Additional features included plant integration with a Multi Machine Controller and Data Export.

Fibrevision® FibreTQS: Original multi parameter On-Line Monitoring system for application across all types of synthetic yarns processes including: (i) POY and FDY, measurement of all key parameters including Spin Finish Mean and Variation, Interlace Level and Variation and Broken Filaments/Slubs, (ii) Air Texturing (ATY), measurement of Bulk Level, Bulk Variation and Denier Change, (iii) BCF, measurement of Bulk Level and Interlace and (iv) for Spandex, measurement of Denier Variation and Broken Filaments.

Fibrevision® Unitens: The industry standard product for DTY Tension Monitoring - now available on all types of DTY machines in the market, either direct from Fibrevision, or from key OEMs.  A new product, Unitens Plus supplements these products by providing Interlace Monitoring and optionally Broken Filament Monitoring together with the industry standard Unitens Tension Monitoring to offer further benefits.

Fibrevision® Fraytec: The original Broken Filament Monitoring system has now been upgraded to Fraytec FV, providing the well known capabilities of Fraytec MV with the advanced software features of fibrevison’s software in addition to optional features to digitally capture and quantify all filament events and monitor Interlace level.

The products - Sensors

Fibrevision’s sensor products are designed for high volume OEM applications and in addition to the products below, Fibrevision develop and manufacture sensors for specific applications.

Fibrevision®TensoTex: A range of sophisticated Tension sensors for applications from the fine denier and ultra low tensions up to technical yarns with tension levels up to 4,000cN.

Fibrevision® CapTex/ Fibrevision® OptoTex: Fibrevision’s range of Yarn Break Sensors based on both capacitance and optical technology to suit the full range of processes.

The products - Instruments

Unique instruments providing, both laboratory yarn characterisation and At-Line QC.

Fibrevision® MicroSCAN: A compact portable battery powered unit that offers extremely accurate ‘At-Line’ measurement of Spin Finish and Interlace.

Fibrevision® LabTEX: A range of laboratory dynamic testing instruments for product characterisation and QC and Product characterisation, applications include: Interlace Level, Interlace Retention; Package Unwinding; Broken Filaments; and ATY Quality.