An electronic device and associated method are used to detect a fault in a spinning mill and to estimate one or more sources of the fault, the spinning mill including a plurality of textile machines that sequentially process textile materials. With the electronic device, the method receives parameter information of one or more of the textile machines and of one or more of the textile materials. The electronic device detects faults and location of the faults by identifying parameter information of the textile materials deviating from reference information. The electronic device is used to access configuration information of the textile machines and knowledge-based information related to possible sources of faults in the spinning mill. The method incudes using the electronic device to apply parameter information, configuration information, and knowledge-based information to one or more machine-learning algorithms to estimate the sources of the faults.

An electronic device for locates a functional disorder within a spinning and winding section of a spinning by receive spinning parameters from spinning machines related to production of yarn delivery bobbins at the spinning machines, and receiving winding parameters from winding machines related to production of yarn bobbins at the winding machines. For the yarn bobbins, the electronic device compares a winding parameter with a normal state level value for the winding parameter to detect a winding abnormality at the respective winding machine that produced the yarn bobbin. Upon detection of the winding abnormality, the electronic device the yarn delivery bobbins used for production of the yarn bobbin and compares at least one of the spinning parameters of the identified yarn delivery bobbins with a normal state level value to locate the functional disorder within the spinning and winding section.

An electronic device for locates a functional disorder within a spinning and winding section of a spinning by receive spinning parameters from spinning machines related to production of yarn delivery bobbins at the spinning machines, and receiving winding parameters from winding machines related to production of yarn bobbins at the winding machines. For the yarn bobbins, the electronic device compares a winding parameter with a normal state level value for the winding parameter to detect a winding abnormality at the respective winding machine that produced the yarn bobbin. Upon detection of the winding abnormality, the electronic device the yarn delivery bobbins used for production of the yarn bobbin and compares at least one of the spinning parameters of the identified yarn delivery bobbins with a normal state level value to locate the functional disorder within the spinning and winding section.