Visualization tool to control Humidity & Temp in Spinning Plant

Challenge & Selection

I am Electronics Engineer & working as Chief Engineer in a Spinning plant. We have to face

challenges & resolve by anonymous way. We do not use any design tool to resolve any problem. Now as I have enrolled in Design thinking course, I started to apply the 1st tool as Visualization to check its validity whether it works or bookish knowledge only. We are facing a chronic problem of Humidity & Temperature Variation in Spinning plant. Humidity & Temp plays a vital roll to control the yarn strength, breakage & its all quality parameter. I took this opportunity to resolve this problem by visualization tool. So I called all stakeholders associated with this problem in one room & explained what I have learn from the visualization tool. Then I shared the visual video for better understanding of all the team members.

Application

I took the challenge as Engineering person to draw a picture of the existing operation which Existing requirement, Factors that can effect Humidity & Temp , Machine condition , Worker efficiency & its capability. Existing Set up parameters were pictured as temperature as thermometers & digits. Humidity as moisture in air , Pressure points as symbol. Air flow as vehicle. Now board looked very interesting. I explained how our existing process can be visualized in this process. Now problem has been explained to them asked to refine the pictures they think for better clarity of the process. Now while running the plant we started to visualize & imagine each parameter at a time. A dynamic visualization of the process has started evolving we had started exploring the possibilities process parameters which can lead to Humidity & Temp variation in the plant. Operator has drawn attention some parts of humidification plant which vibrates during machine running. We all got astonished & operator gave us the problem pin points. Now engineering team has fixed that problem. Another department person told that door of the plant was found open some times which lead to enter the less humidity air inside the plant. This may be the reason for variation.Another observation was that we are facing problem in rainy season only & very less variation in another season like winter & dry season. So we have to check the washer pump from inside for their efficiency.

Insight & Approach

This visualization tool process helped to find very common things which we normally ignore while thinking for troubleshooting. When we write or draw a picture, small tiny things appear in the picture. These small details pictures actually lead to complete the picture as a whole for broader vision. So design tool helped us for a systematic approach to solve the problem by involving all related stakeholders. The outcome was very encouraging & exciting

