Manufacture nonwoven staple products

Description

Perform the operation, monitoring and maintenance of machines and processes to manufacture nonwoven staple products, keeping efficiency and productivity at high levels.

Alternative labels

manufacture nonwoven staple goods
operate nonwoven staple machinery
tend nonwoven staple machines
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nonwoven staple products manufacturing
manufacture nonwoven staple
tend nonwoven staple machinery

Skill type

skill/competence

Skill reusability level

sector-specific

Relationships with occupations

Essential skill

Manufacture nonwoven staple products is an essential skill of the following occupations:

Textile machine operator: Textile machine operator supervises the textile process of a group of machines, monitoring quality and productivity. They inspect textile machines after set up, start up, and during production to ensure the product meets specs and quality standards.
Nonwoven staple machine operator: Nonwoven staple machine operators perform physical nonwoven processing operations.
Textile technologist: Textile technologists develop and supervise production systems for textiles.
Absorbent pad machine operator: Absorbent pad machine operators tend a machine that takes in cellulose fibres and compresses them to a highly absorbent pad material for use in hygienic products such as diapers and tampons.

Optional skill

Manufacture nonwoven staple products is optional for these occupations. This means knowing this skill may be an asset for career advancement if you are in one of these occupations.

Spinning textile technician: Spinning textile technicians perform operations related to setting up spinning processes.
Textile quality technician: Textile quality technicians perform physical laboratory tests on textile materials and products. They compare textile materials and products to standards and interpret results.
Textile pattern making machine operator: Textile pattern making machine operators create patterns, designs and decoration for textiles and fabrics using machines and equipment. They choose which materials to use and check the quality of the textiles both before and after their work.
Textile machinery technician: Textile machinery technicians set up, maintain, inspect and repair mechanical and computer-controlled machinery used in textile manufacturing such as weaving, dyeing and finishing machines.
 
Textile operations manager: Textile operations managers schedule orders and delivery times in order to assure the efficient flow of the production system.
Textile, leather and footwear researcher: Textile, leather and footwear researchers combine knowledge of material sciences, chemistry, physics, process technologies, management, and engineering to contribute to future innovations within the fields of textile, wearing apparel, leather, and footwear. They collaborate in multidisciplinary projects in order to combine findings from a diverse array of science fields for product development.
Textile process controller: Textile process controllers perform textile process operations, technical functions in various aspects of design, production and quality control of textile products, and cost control for processes. They use computer aided manufacturing (CAM), and computer integrated manufacturing (CIM) tools in order to ensure conformity of entire production process to specifications. They compare and exchange individual processes with other departments (e.g cost calculation office) and initiate appropriate actions. They analyse the structure and properties of raw materials used in textiles and assist to prepare specifications for their production, analyse and interpret test data.
Textile quality inspector: Textile quality inspectors ensure that the manufactured of textile products is compliant with predetermined specifications.
Nonwoven textile technician: Nonwoven textile technicians perform operations related to setting up non-woven processes.

 


 

References

  1. Manufacture nonwoven staple products – ESCO

 

Last updated on September 20, 2022