# US 2021/0340694 A1 · Method for reducing errors in textile machines > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 2021/0340694 A1 - Document ID: US20210340694A1 - Status: Published application - Kind: A1 - Application number: 17/283,238 - Filed: 2019-10-09 - Published: 2021-11-04 - Earliest claimed: 2018-10-10 - Applicants: Saurer Spinning Solutions GmbH & Co. KG - Inventors: Thomas ARTER - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20210340694A1 ## CPC - D01H 13/14: Warning or safety devices, e.g. automatic fault detectors, stop motions {; Monitoring the entanglement of slivers in drafting arrangements} - G06Q 10/06398: {Performance of employee with respect to a job function} - B65H 63/00: Warning or safety devices, e.g. automatic fault detectors, stop-motions (safety devices in general F16P; indicating devices in general G08B ){; Quality control of the package} - D01G 31/00: Warning or safety devices, e.g. automatic fault detectors, stop motions (safety devices of general application F16P; indicating devices of general application G08B) - G09B 19/20: Needlework - G09B 19/24: Use of tools - B65H 2701/31: Textiles threads or artificial strands of filaments - D01H: SPINNING OR TWISTING (twisting oakum D01G35/00; crimping or curling of fibres, filaments, or yarns D02G1/00) - G06Q: INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR - B65H: HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES - D01G: PRELIMINARY TREATMENT OF FIBRES, e.g. FOR SPINNING (winding or unwinding, conducting or guiding laps, webs, slivers or rovings in general, sliver or roving cans, depositing in sliver or roving cabs B65H; preparation of fibres for paper-making D21) - G09B: EDUCATIONAL OR DEMONSTRATION APPLIANCES; APPLIANCES FOR TEACHING, OR COMMUNICATING WITH, THE BLIND, DEAF OR MUTE; MODELS; PLANETARIA; GLOBES; MAPS; DIAGRAMS (devices for psychotechnics or for testing reaction times A61B5/16; games, sports, amusements A63; projectors, projector screens G03B) ## Abstract The invention relates to a method for reducing errors in textile machines via training management of the operating personnel. In order to provide a method and a system which reduce the number of errors occurring and thereby guarantee the desired product quality, as well as reducing costly repairs and long downtimes of the textile machine and thereby lowering operating costs and increasing efficiency and operating safety, according to the invention, as method steps, the method first involves error detection at at least one textile machine, followed by detecting error information when an error occurs, wherein the detected error or error information is subsequently aligned with available instructional and/or training content and/or already known error information, and an item of instructional and/or training content relating to a possible cause of the error is identified for future error prevention, and finally the instructional and/or training content for error-specific training or training prompted by the error is delivered to the operating personnel in order to prevent a future occurrence of the error, improve the operating competency of the operating personnel and/or increase the operating safety. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A method for reducing errors in textile machines by managing the teaching of the operating personnel, comprising: performing error detection on at least one textile machine, capturing error information when an error occurs, comparing the detected error with available teaching and/or training contents and/or already known error information and identifying a teaching and/or training content relevant to a possible cause of the error, for future error avoidance, and providing teaching and/or training contents for the error-specific further education of the operating personnel in order to avoid in future the error that occurred. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The method according to claim 1, characterised in that, after the error detection, it is determined whether the error was caused by the operating personnel or could have been prevented by different behaviour of the operating personnel. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The method according to claim 1, characterised in that the identity of the operating personnel is captured during the use of the textile machine in order to associate a detected error with an individual user or a user group. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The method according to claim 1, characterised in that, for the error detection, the operating actions performed by the operating personnel are monitored in order to associate an error occurring later with the behaviour of a user or a user group. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The method according to claim 1, characterised in that, after the detection of an error caused by a user, the error is associated with the user responsible for the error in a database, and, in particular by means of long-term monitoring of the usage actions of the operating personnel, a competence evaluation of the individual users or user groups is conducted, whereby subsequently teaching or training contents can be offered to the users or user groups in a targeted manner in order to improve the operating competence. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The method according to claim 1, characterised in that, on the basis of the identified teaching and/or training contents, an online teaching is conducted, which the operating personnel are preferably automatically invited to or registered for. ### Claim 7 (depends on 1) The method according to claim 1, characterised in that a teaching and more particularly a training is executed at the textile machine by means of a portable communication and/or training device, more particularly by means of a mobile telephone app, the teaching and/or training contents being provided by a central control unit. ### Claim 8 (depends on 1) The method according to claim 1, characterised in that the operating actions of the operating personnel are captured at the portable communication and/or training device and/or at the textile machine during the training in order to capture the training progress and operating errors possibly occurring again. ### Claim 9 (depends on 1) The method according to claim 1, characterised in that maintenance management is performed on the basis of the detected errors by providing to the operating personnel teaching and/or training contents regarding the maintenance of the specific textile machine as needed and/or regularly. ### Claim 10 A system for reducing errors in textile machines by managing the teaching of the operating personnel, comprising a central control unit having at least one interface to a textile machine for detecting errors and/or for capturing error information, a central database having teaching and training contents associated with the error information, for the further education of the operating personnel for future error avoidance, and an output interface for providing teaching and/or training contents for the error-specific further education of the operating personnel in order to avoid in future the error that occurred.