Bundesinstitut für Berufsbildung (BIBB)

Designation of occupation

Textile mechanic (m/f) - spinning *
Recognized by ordinance of 28 January 1993 (BGBl. I, p. 157)

Duration of traineeship

3 years
The venues for training are company and vocational school (Berufsschule)

Field of activity

In the spinning industry processes such as parallelization, refining and twisting are used to manufacture single and plied yarns of different strengths and thicknesses from fibrous materials. Textile mechanics - spinning set up and maintain the automated and computer-controlled spinning machines and installations. They have an understanding of technical interactions and the functioning of plant and machinery and develop technical documents and instructions taking account of quality and commercial considerations. Because of the technologies used, single and plied yarns can be produced with a variety of structures and effects for a very broad range of applications.

Occupational skills

Textile mechanics - spinning

• distinguish between different textile fibres and textile products on the basis of their properties and intended purposes;
• determine the structure of single and plied yarns, in particular by varying fineness, twist number, twist direction and folding number, and carry out fineness and materials calculations;
• process materials and fix machine attachments to spinning machines and installations;
• handle process control systems, systems to capture and evaluate operating data and electronically controlled assemblies in spinning machines and installations;
• set up and adjust spinning preparation machines, roving frames and spinning machines and machines for processing yarns;
• monitor work processes in all production stages;
• maintain spinning machines, spinning installations and finishing machines and eliminate machine-induced and material-induced faults and their causes;
• evaluate reject yarn and initiate quality assurance measures;
• capture and evaluate technical data on machine parameters, work processes and production results.

*) Second stage of a graduated training in the spinning industry;
first stage: textile machine operator - spinning

Last modified on: December 12, 2006