Medical textiles are widely used as bandages for diverse purposes. Usually textiles have a certain stiffness depending on the passive material and the manufacturing technique. To improve and extend the applications by making the stressstrain characteristic adaptive, hybrid structures made of textile with integrated shape memory alloys (SMA) are investigated and evaluated regarding its capabilit...

The manufacture of clothing, along with the closely associated activities of fibre and textile production, continues to be one of the driving forces of industrialisation throughout the developing world. At the same time, the clothing industries of many developed consumer countries are fighting to maintain their share of the total value (as opposed to volume) which is created throughout the enti...

Y. H. Li, T. Liu, Q. Du, J. Sun, Y. Xia, Z. Wang, W. Zhang, K. Wang, H. Zhu, and D. Wu Laboratory of Fiber Materials and Modern Textile, the Growing Base for State Key Laboratory, Qingdao University, 308 Ningxia Road, Qingdao 266071, China College of Electromechanical Engineering, Qingdao University, 308 Ningxia Road, Qingdao 266071, China Key Laboratory for Advanced Manufacturing by Material P...

We present a method for an automated quality control of textile seams, which is aimed to establish a standardized quality measure and to lower costs in manufacturing. The system consists of a suitable image acquisition setup, an algorithm for locating the seam, a feature extraction stage and a neural network of the self-organizing map type for feature classification. A procedure to select an op...

This article presents a quality improvement study applied at a yarn manufacturing company based on six sigma methodologies. More specifically, the DMAIC (Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, and Control) project management-methodology & various tools are utilized to streamline processes & enhance productivity. Defects rate of textile product in the yarn manufacturing process is so important in in...

This article presents a quality improvement study applied at a yarn manufacturing company based on six sigma methodologies. More specifically, the DMAIC (Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, and Control) project management-methodology & various tools are utilized to streamline processes & enhance productivity. Defects rate of textile product in the yarn manufacturing process is so important in in...

The paper is related to the thread manufacturing process. This work clearly identified the different problems occurring during manufacturing. In the last process (winding), DMAIC tool is applied. The reason for choosing this work is to provide a better analysis of different processes in thread manufacturing. This textile firm has large departments where the thread produced from the waste clothe...

BACKGROUND The role of occupational exposures in breast cancer development is still uncertain and, to our knowledge, no studies have been recently carried out in Italy to provide a comprehensive estimation of this possible risk. METHODS Based on administrative data, a case-control study was carried out recruiting all incident cases of female breast cancer in the period 2002-2009, aged between...

T HE model presented in this paper is a system of recursive linear regression equations, the parameters of which are estimated from monthly series of data covering the period, January, 1951, through December, 1962. The parameters relate certain exogenous and predetermined endogenous variables to apparel demand, apparel output, textile demand, textile output, and employment, earnings, prices, pr...

The simulation of the Liquid Composite Moulding process is an important step for the manufacturing of composites with textile reinforcements. However, its fast direct numerical simulation is impossible on the microscale due to computational complexity reasons. We have to resort to the macroscale instead. Here, an essential task is the fast and accurate prediction of the permeability of textile ...