Industrial Cutting of Textile Materials (The Textile Institute Book Series) - Softcover

Vilumsone-Nemes, Ineta

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0081021224 ISBN 13: 9780081021224

Publisher: Woodhead Publishing, 2018

Synopsis

Industrial Cutting of Textile Materials, Second Edition, is a comprehensive guide to cutting room operations, offering step-by-step information on processes, technologies and best practice. This new edition is updated to present the latest advances in automated cutting technology, including advanced spreading methods and machines, advanced knife cutting systems, and pattern matching methods processing garment, home and technical textiles. Drawing on her extensive practical experience, the author begins by reviewing initial steps, such as unloading, sorting and quality control of materials, before discussing subsequent operations, including lay planning and marker making, manual and automated spreading and cutting, fusing of cut components, and final work operations such as sorting cut components for further joining.

The book also covers manual and advanced automated marker making, spreading and cutting methods for more intricate fabrics, such as striped fabrics and fabrics with check, motif and border patterns, narrow lace and fabrics with pile.

With essential information on cutting room operations and best practice, this book provides engineers, technologists and managers with the knowledge they need to maximize accuracy and efficiency, to control production processes effectively, and to improve product quality. The book also enables academics and students engaged in the field of textile and clothing technology to gain a solid understanding of cutting room procedures.

• Provides production managers, technologists, and other manufacturing specialists of textile goods the knowledge they need in order to increase raw material utilization and with it reduce productions costs, maximise cutting process efficiency, control production processes effectively, and improve ready product quality
• Describes spreading and cutting of garment, home and technical textiles
• Includes guidance on best practice dealing with intricate fabrics
• Enables readers to benefit from the latest advances in automated textile cutting technologies

About this title

About the Author:

Dr Ineta Vilumsone-Nemes is Assistant Professor at the University of Novi Sad, Serbia. She has conducted academic research and worked in textile manufacturing for more than 20 years in Latvia and Serbia, including working with garment manufacturers from several European countries. She is now an independent consultant and lecturer in garment production technologies and management.

Review:

"With essential information on cutting room operations and best practices, it provides production managers, technologists, and other manufacturing specialists with the knowledge they need in order to increase raw material utilisation and with it reduce production costs, maximise cutting process efficiency, control production process effectively, and improve ready product quality." --Asian Technical Textiles

About this edition

• Publisher: Woodhead Publishing
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 0081021224
• ISBN 13: 9780081021224
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 314