Effects of power quality on manufacturing costs in textile industry

Abstract

This paper reports the effect of electrical power quality on textile industry. For this purpose, power quality measurements have been done for six months in two different sectors of textile industry. All parameters affecting power quality have been measured by using ION 7650 Power Analyzer according to the EN 50160 standard. Because textile industries have high technology machines including electronic control cards and driver controlled motors, poor power quality may damage the system and cause production failure. Measurements showed that the losses caused by electrical power quality were significantly high, being around 15% of the annual net profit of the textile industry.