CV of speaker – David McAlister

Dr. McAlister is the Product Marketing Manager for the fiber laboratory product line for USTER Technologies worldwide. He has close to 20 years experience in textiles and fiber quality from both a practical application and research view point. Dr. McAlister’s experience includes eight years in industry at various levels of textile manufacturing management with two premier U.S. textile companies. He was instrumental in the successful start-up of an $80M Spinning Operation during this time meeting all budget and quality targets. In addition Dr. McAlister also spent 9 years in textile and fiber research with 7 of those years as the Director and Research Leader of the Cotton Quality Research Station of the Agricultural Research Service of the United States Department of Agriculture. During his research tenure at USDA he was successful in re-organizing the program into a responsive and practical application focused program to efficiently utilize a $2.5M research budget. Dr. McAlister holds a Ph.D. in engineering management, a MS Degree in Textile Science and a Bachelor’s degree in Business Management.

Synopsis:

Application of HVI and AFIS

Raw material cost and quality is the most dominant factor in yarn manufacturing. USTER® INTELLIGIN, USTER® HVI, and USTER® AFIS allow for the control and classification of fiber quality from the producer to the textile mill. USTER® INTELLIGIN allows a gin to preserve quality while optimizing the turnout versus the classing grade for optimal pricing of the cotton bales by utilizing critical fiber quality measurements on-line at the gin. USTER® HVI continues the link from the gin by providing important fiber property information for determining the classification of cotton in world wide classing offices and the market value of cotton as well as optimizing the mix laydowns for yarn manufacturing. USTER® AFIS closes the fiber testing loop by providing critical information for the optimization of the spinning preparation process as well as the maintenance cycles for those processes. Only with USTER® can a mill protect its largest continuous investment for manufacturing with total testing of its fiber.