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JOURNAL OF THE TEXTILE INSTITUTE
Volume 97, Issue 1, Pages 11-16Publisher
TEXTILE INST
DOI: 10.1533/joti.2005.0134
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artificial neural network; mill specific prediction; worsted spinning performance; yarn quality
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Different spinning mills use different raw materials, processing methodologies, and equipment, all of which influence the quality of the yarns produced. Because of many variables, there is a difficulty in developing a universal empirical/theoretical model. This work presents a multilayer perceptron algorithm (MLP) model for the purpose of building a mill specific worsted spinning performance prediction tool. Sixteen inputs are used to predict key yarn properties and spinning performance, including number of fibers in cross-section, unevenness (U%), thin places, neps, yarn tenacity, elongation at break, thick places, and spinning ends-down. Validation of the model on mill specific commercial data set shows that the general fit to the target values is good. Importantly, the performance of the MLP shows a certain degree of stability to different, random selections of independent test data. Subsequent comparison against the predicted outputs of Sirolan Yarnspec (TM) confirms the overall performance of the artificial neural network (ANN) method to be more accurate for mill specific predictions.
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