More quality, more quantity!

Intuitive Quality Management for Textile Mills

Managing quality with minimal know how?

Today's textile markets are highly competitive throughout the value chain, from fibre to fabric. Customers have very precise quality expectations and mills must use their resources efficiently to meet these quality requirements. To meet these challenges, the Swiss company Uster Technologies AG has taken the step from machine manufacturer to service provider with the aim of offering its customers comprehensive quality management and smooth production.

This is where Centigrade came in!

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Client:

Uster Technologies

Textile Industry

Services:

UX Design

UX Research

UI Design

Prototyping

Frontend Engineering

The Solution

Together, we are developing a service framework that uses our many years of experience in user-centred design to enhance the quality data of Uster devices and ensure user-friendly operation.

Easy to use quality management with FiberQ

Uster's machines are capable of measuring the exact quality of the raw material. However, this data needs to be properly analysed in order to make informed decisions. Until now, this has been a time-consuming task with a high risk of error and little potential for optimisation, but with FiberQ, a cloud-based solution has been created to maintain visibility and control at every stage of textile processing.

Easy to use quality management with FiberQ

Uster's machines are capable of measuring the exact quality of the raw material. However, this data needs to be properly analysed in order to make informed decisions. Until now, this has been a time-consuming task with a high risk of error and little potential for optimisation, but with FiberQ, a cloud-based solution has been created to maintain visibility and control at every stage of textile processing.

Ready, Set, Done!

The collaboration with Uster Technologies went very well, even though the project started during the COVID-19 pandemic. This is mainly due to our agile working processes. This allowed our Centigrade team to seamlessly integrate into Uster's SAFe-based development process and work within their management framework. SAFe stands for Scaled Agile Framework and coordinates, among other things, the synchronisation when several agile teams work on the same system at the same time.

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SAFe and lean collaboration

Another key factor in good collaboration is our shared working philosophy. The processes at Uster Technologies AG are lean, which means that they aim to create real added value for users in line with our way of working, rather than focusing purely on the number of features. In addition, SAFe serves as a common organisational foundation and creates a solid basis for our collaboration.

Maximum flexibility, with micro front ends

For front-end development, we rely heavily on Angular to ensure the most flexible software architecture possible. As Uster uses a variety of applications, we have developed a comprehensive app shell that acts as a framework for integrating different micro front-ends. These are loaded independently, allowing development teams, for example, to work on different software components in parallel. This also makes the software easy and flexible to extend. An example of such micro-frontends are the tabs for mail and calendar in Microsoft Outlook.

FiberQ-Dashboard

FiberQ-Dashboard für automatische Cloud-Übertragungen, das präzise Materialmischungen für die Herstellung qualitativ hochwertiger T-Shirts sicherstellt. Dieses System ersetzt die bisherige manuelle Dateneingabe in umfangreiche Excel-Tabellen.

FiberQ Performance Dashboard

Ein übersichtliches Dashboard, das einen leicht verständlichen, geführten Workflow aus komplexen Datenmengen darstellt. Es unterstützt Fabriken dabei, auch ohne umfassendes Expertenwissen der Nutzer eine gleichbleibende Produktqualität zu sichern.

FiberQ Performance Dashboard

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A 360° solution, with the 360Q platform

FiberQ is only the beginning of a comprehensive service system. To provide customers with comprehensive solutions to the complex challenges of cotton processing, Uster is developing the 360Q platform with our support. This cloud-based platform integrates various services, including FiberQ, and forms the basis for our continued close collaboration.

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We are proud to be part of such a global project with participants from all over the world that has worked so well despite the challenges of the pandemic!

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Uster Technologies

It has long been a personal interest of mine to establish a truly user-centred development process at Uster Technologies. With the start of the 360Q project, we were able to seize the opportunity and build the right setup thanks to the great support and guidance from Centigrade. Centigrade now supports us in all areas, from concept to visual design, implementation and user testing, and we would not want to be without their expertise. I have always appreciated the open and transparent communication at eye level, which enables a very efficient and inspiring cooperation and brings us closer to the goal of being able to offer our Uster customers a comprehensive support solution. I am very much looking forward to the next steps in this journey!

Heike Thomys
Product Manager Mill Management Solutions

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