An electronic device for locating a functional disorder within a spinning and winding section of a spinning mill, the spinning and winding section including one or more spinning machines configured to produce a plurality of yarn delivery bobbins with wound yarn and one or more winding machines configured to receive the yarn delivery bobbins to produce a plurality of yarn bobbins, the electronic device configured to perform the following:
- from each spinning machine, receive spinning parameters related to production of the yarn delivery bobbins at the respective spinning machine;
- from each winding machine, receive winding parameters related to production of the yarn bobbins at the respective winding machine;
- for the yarn bobbins produced at the respective winding machines, compare at least one of the winding parameters with a normal state level of the winding parameter to detect a winding abnormality at the respective winding machine;
- upon detection of the winding abnormality at the respective winding machine, identify the yarn delivery bobbins used for production of the yarn bobbin at the respective winding machine;
- the electronic device configured to locate the functional disorder by comparing at least one of the spinning parameters of the identified yarn delivery bobbins with a normal state level of the spinning parameter:
- wherein the electronic device determines that the functional disorder is at the spinning machine that produced the identified yarn delivery bobbins when the compared spinning parameter exceeds the normal state level;
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- wherein the electronic device determines that the functional disorder is at the transportation of the yarn delivery bobbins when the compared spinning parameter does not exceed the normal state level and no other abnormality is detected at the respective winding machine.