Abstract: An open-end rotor spinning machine having a plurality of work stations, wherein each work station comprises an open-end spinning device for manufacturing a yarn, a winding device with a creel, a yarn traversing device for producing a cheese, a pivotably supported, vacuum-chargeable suction nozzle, an individual drive for pivoting the suction nozzle between a yarn take-up position in the area of the winding device and a yarn transfer position in the area of a spinning piecing member, and a device for preparing a yarn end required for restarting spinning. Each work station comprises a winding device with a drive drum driven by a reversible individual drive for driving a cheese and with a yarn traversing device driven by an individual motor for defined placement of the yarn running up onto the cheese, a yarn withdrawal device, and a work-station computer for controlling the individual drives and individual motors.