The fully comprehensive monograph "Clothing-manufacture management – a systematic approach to planning" scheduling, and control, provides a critical overview and appreciation of design of clothing-manufacture processes, and an understanding of product development and production planning. Design of clothing manufacturing processes plays an essential role in introducing new products, particularly in the ability to adapt quickly to dynamic changes in the global market. The eight chapters of the book provide detailed coverage of clothing-manufacture planning, management, and scheduling. Chapter 1 gives a general overview of clothing classification and terminologies for individual clothing types. Chapter 2 therefore provides an overview of the development and analysis of sizing systems of clothing. Chapter 3 reviews the key issues in product development - garment collection. These chapters provide the context for designing particular clothing manufacturing processes. Chapters 4 to 7 discuss particular aspects of clothing manufacturing engineering, ranging from engineering, planning, scheduling to monitoring and controlling. The last Chapter provides an overview of quality requirements for clothing materials, definitions and minimum quality standards. The monograph is intended for a wide spectrum of readers, including students, researchers and academics, as well as professionals in the field of clothing design and engineering.
COBISS.SI-ID: 16688918
Virtual prototyping of garments provides high potential for design, product development and marketing processes. Fit of a garment on the body model is an important factor to design comfortable, functional and well fitted garments. Today, the majority of CAD systems for garments’ pattern design have 3D virtual garments simulation software for garment prototyping and fit evaluation. The garment is composed of 2D patterns and evaluation of the garment’s fit is performed on the 3D human body model, where parametric mannequin or scanned human body represent a virtual body model. Based on the results of this study and many recent research works it can be assured that virtual prototyping is a promising technique that has a potential to replace conventional garments’ prototyping. However, it can be successful only when all specific characteristics of the textile materials and accurate virtual body models to simulate the garment fit are fully taken into account.
COBISS.SI-ID: 16395286
Producers of fashion and special garments are nowadays oriented towards the reduction of development cost and prototype development time. 3D virtual prototyping, which has been recently introduced to clothing industry, become a topic of increasing interest of both computer graphics and clothing industry. Based on the results of many recent studies, we can claim that 3D virtual garment prototyping is a promising technique, which will due to its potential considerably replace conventional methods of clothing prototypes’ development. These technologies are especially important when a garment prototype should be developed for special purposes such as competitive sports apparel, protective or special clothing.
COBISS.SI-ID: 16334102
Measuring system for programmed measurement and evaluation of mechanical properties of liner and flat flexible materials consists of the measurement hardware with built-in measuring unit with the sensor system for testing tensile and/or compression loads and their mechanical deformations. Furthermore, the system has appropriate software for programming and controlling the measurement process, automated data acquisition, evaluation and display of results. It is intended for testing and programmed measuring of various mechanical deformations of linear flexible materials such as threads, yarns, ribbons, and flat materials such as woven and knitted fabrics, nonwoven textiles, leather, laminates, and composites. The deformations in these materials are a consequence of tensile forces and/or longitudinal compressive forces, deformations in cyclic loading and relaxation of tension in flexible materials. Hardware design solution with the corresponding software enables automated capture of numerical data of load-deformation measurements, calculation of the average stress-strain curve and numerical evaluation of parameters of viscoelastic properties of flat and linear materials. The system uses two sensors. For lower loads it uses an inductive force transducer while for higher loads a resistive force transducer is used.
COBISS.SI-ID: 16252438
Over the last two decades extensive work has been carried out by a number of institutes with the aim of developing efficient protective clothing for industrial workers, as well as for the armed forces. The primary requirement for both civil and defence applications is protection, resp. need for protection - for saving valuable humans faced with various hazards and climatic conditions. It is particularly important to develop efficient personal protective equipment and to evaluate potential hazards within the domain of chemical, biological and radiological threats, which are often not covered by standard definitions and international regulations. This contribution presents certain peculiarities of a complex design concept for protective clothing, as an important component of personal protective equipment in case of contamination by chemical and biological agents. The requirements for protective clothing are given according to their purposes, functions, resp. type of protection, as well as the system’s approach to the design, development, and implementation of protective functional clothing. The complex design of protective clothing should be based on a systematic, interdisciplinary approach, when considering the objective characterisation of materials, by taking into account verified technical specifications, and the development of new methods and techniques for the manufacturing of multifunctional protective clothing. Furthermore, it is necessary to monitor and evaluate any potential hazards encountered by the user.
COBISS.SI-ID: 16051734