A spinning station of a spinning machine for producing a thread from a sliver. A thread end is taken up by a take-up device and transferred to a preparation device downstream from a vortex chamber of the spinning device, the thread end is subsequently treated in the preparation device and then transferred to the vortex chamber, a drafting system for supplying a sliver to the vortex chamber is powered up, wherein an exit roller pair of the drafting system is accelerated to a predetermined draw-off speed, and the sliver is spun onto the thread end in the vortex chamber and a draw-off device for drawing off the thread spun in the vortex chamber is powered up and accelerated up to the draw-off speed. The speed of the exit roller pair and/or of the draw-off device increases non-linearly and/or approaches the predetermined draw-off speed non-linearly around the end of powering up.

The invention relates to a method for operating a spinning machine with a multiple number of spinning stations, whereas, in the normal case, the individual spinning stations are supplied with a fiber material and produce a yarn from this, whereas, upon the occurrence of predefined events, yarn production is interrupted at any or all spinning stations, whereas the spinning stations at which yarn production has been interrupted are, when required, spun in with the assistance of a spinning-in process in order to once again start up yarn production, and whereas the respective spinning-in is carried out with the assistance of handling tools with their own spinning machines. In accordance with the invention, it is proposed that the individual spinning stations are classified on the basis of one or more production-related parameters, and that, if more spinning-in processes are to be carried out at the same time than can be carried out by the handling tools, at least the selection of the spinning station to be spun in next is carried out under consideration of the specified classification.