Textile
Loom and textile machine monitoring
A loom stops and nobody knows for how long. The weaver says the beam ran out. The register says forty minutes. Nobody can check either.
This is the industry where LiveMach is most proven. Our largest deployment is 150 machines at a ₹500+ crore manufacturer, and a loom data monitoring system is exactly the shape of problem it was built for.
What weaving units tell us
- Loom stoppages are known by the shift total, never by when they happened or why.
- Night shift output drops and nobody can prove where the hours went.
- Weaver efficiency is argued about at salary time, from a register nobody trusts.
- Sheds are spread out, so a stopped loom in the far shed can stand for an hour.
- Beam change, weft break and warp break all get written as "stoppage".
What we measure on a loom
The same four states as everywhere else, plus the counting your unit actually uses.
Running, stopped, idle and off
Per loom, every minute, on all three shifts. The night shift records itself.
Stoppage reasons
Beam change, weft break, warp break, no material, mechanical, power. Your codes, in your words, picked on the dashboard.
Production counts
Picks or metres, depending on what the loom gives us a clean signal for. Agreed at survey, not assumed.
Weaver efficiency
Attendance, hours and loom assignment per operator, so efficiency conversations stand on recorded hours.
Shed-wise view
The dashboard is laid out the way your sheds are laid out, so a stopped loom is visible at a glance from your phone.
How it is fitted
Outside the machine, in a normal stop. Nothing inside the loom is cut or rewired.
Signal tap through an optocoupler
On the loom indicator lamps or contactor signals, electrically isolated from your machine.
Current sensor
Clamped on the drive supply, which separates running from stopped and gives power per loom.
Proximity sensor
On a repeating movement where a clean count is needed and the electrical signal will not give one.
What a rollout looks like
We start with one shed or one line, check that the numbers match what your supervisor sees, then extend. Fitting a loom is usually about an hour and is done in a normal stop, so weaving does not have to be planned around us.
Proven at scale: 150 machines at a ₹500+ crore manufacturer, with uptime moving from 15–30% to 70–80% and a 3x+ productivity gain.
Start with one shed
Tell us how many looms you run and how your sheds are arranged. We will show you what the dashboard looks like for a unit your size.
Related reading
Machine downtime tracking
Reason codes and the Pareto that shows which two stoppage reasons own your week.
OEE software
The full OEE calculation, worked through on one 8 hour shift.
The LiveMach machine monitoring system
Hardware, dashboard and how a deployment actually runs.
The LiveMach sensor device
What the device reads, how it is isolated and how it is fitted outside the machine.