Manufacturing towards Excellence in spinning mills aims to help the relevant organization to cut costs, improve throughput, effective utilization of resources and to safeguard the interests of stakeholders. Major aspects discussed includes quality assurance, production management, maintenance management of modern machinery and laboratory equipment towards achieving manufacturing excellence with benchmarking and industry norms. Relevant case studies are provided with dedicated chapters on training and development of employees, energy management and customer focus.

Explains industry norms to benchmark any spinning mill against the manufacturing performance parameters.

Includes Failure Mode and Effect Analysis and Total Productive Maintenance aspects.

Explores training and development standards in spinning mills.

Discusses energy management and customer focus through effective techniques.

Reviews SPDM, PDM Tools, Contamination index, Spin plan, Customer Satisfaction Index, Co-Creation, and HPT

This book is aimed at professionals and researchers in textile engineering and management.

A.Kanthimathinathan, is a Management Consultant for the Spinning Mills through his own outfit WINSYS SMC, operating from Coimbatore, India. He is a post graduate from in Textile Technology from PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore and later acquired PG Diploma in Personnel Management and Industrial Relations from NIPM, Calcutta. He has 42 years of experience in reputed Spinning mills and in a Research Association. He has more than thirty technical papers published in Industry and Research journals. One of the book, co-authored by him, won the `Best Book Award` from Textile Association of India. He is also one of the recipient of NRDC(National Research Development Council) Award for a joint contribution towards an UNDP sponsored project. He contributed for nine patents for product development while serving at SITRA (The South India Textile Research Association, Coimbatore). He had been deputed to Leeds University, UK and Clemson University, USA by SITRA on an UNDP sponsored project to study and acquire knowledge from academic experts . He had visited many mills in India and few mills abroad on technical consultancy visits through SITRA as well as his through his own Consultancy organization. He shared his technical knowledge through various platforms like National level textile Conferences, Seminars conducted by Research Associations, Textile Associations and Academic institutions etc. As a CEO, WINSYS SMC, he has conducted several technical seminars across India for the benefit of professionals serving in textile industries.