How to Use Advanced Sewing AutomationsBoth quality and productivity improvement are the driving forces for accelerating the growth of factories. Factories specialise in manufacturing of specialised products such as polo shirts, bottoms and shirts, require specialised machineries with maximum level of mechanisation/automation, whereas companies involved in manufacturing of multi-product categories, which include fashion apparels, have to deal with small order quantities with frequent style changeover. Hence flexibility and set-up time minimisation are important criteria for equipment selection. In this series, Dr. Prabir Jana with the help of StitchWorld technical team, identifies seven critical operations for analysis. |
Contents
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Section 2 | ii |
Section 3 | 1 |
Section 4 | 8 |
Section 5 | 14 |
Section 6 | 19 |
Section 7 | 21 |
Section 8 | 22 |
Section 9 | 25 |
Section 10 | 30 |
Section 11 | 34 |
Section 12 | 38 |
Common terms and phrases
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