Automation in garment manufacturing / edited by Rajkishore Nayak and Rajiv Padhye

Contents: ""Front Cover""; ""Automation in Garment Manufacturing""; ""Series Page""; ""Automation in Garment Manufacturing""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""List of contributors""; "" 1 -- Introduction to automation in garment manufacturing""; ""1.1 Introduction""; ""1.1.1 Garment manufacturing: from concept to consumer""; ""1.1.2 Global scenario of automation""; ""1.2 Automation in garment production""; ""1.2.1 Requirements of automation""; ""1.2.2 Fundamentals of automation""; ""1.3 Areas of automation""; ""1.3.1 Automatic fabric inspection"" ""1.3.2 Computer-aided design and computer-aided manufacturing"" ""1.3.3 Fabric spreading and cutting""; ""1.3.4 Sewing""; ""1.3.5 Pressing""; ""1.3.6 Use of radio-frequency identification""; ""1.4 Difficulties in automation""; ""1.5 Advantages and disadvantages of automation""; ""1.5.1 Advantages""; ""1.5.2 Disadvantages""; ""1.6 Book contents""; ""1.7 Future trends""; ""1.8 Conclusion""; ""References""; ""2 -- Automation versus modeling and simulation""; ""2.1 Introduction""; ""2.2 The way from idea to technical sheets""; ""2.3 Pattern development""; ""2.4 Basic pattern"" ""2.4.1 System pattern construction""""2.4.2 Basic pattern as a modification of three-dimensional forms""; ""2.4.3 Basic pattern as drapery""; ""2.5 Cutting and printing systems""; ""2.6 Joining systems""; ""2.7 Fitting systems""; ""2.8 Conclusion""; ""Sources of further information""; ""References""; ""3 -- Automation in production of yarns, woven, and knitted fabrics*""; ""3.1 Introduction""; ""3.2 Types of industries""; ""3.3 Global spinning machine manufacturers""; ""3.3.1 Saurer Schlafhorst GmbH & CO. KG, Ã#x9C;bach Palenberg, Germany""; ""3.3.2 Rieter AG. Winterthur, Switzerland"" ""3.3.3 Murata Machinery, Ltd., Fushimi-ku, Kyoto, Japan""""3.3.4 Savio Macchine Tessili S.p.A., Pordenone, Italy""; ""3.3.5 Lakshmi Machine Works Limited, Coimbatore, India""; ""3.4 Automation in production of sewing threads""; ""3.5 Automation in production of woven fabrics""; ""3.5.1 Multiobjective self-optimization of weaving process""; ""3.6 Automation in production of weft-knitted fabrics""; ""3.6.1 Properties of pattern elements in large circular weft-knitted fabrics""; ""3.6.2 Quality monitoring of knitted fabrics""; ""3.7 Conclusion""; ""References"" ""4 -- Automation in fabric inspection""""4.1 Introduction""; ""4.2 Fabric inspection""; ""4.3 Conventional fabric inspection techniques""; ""4.3.1 Dallas system""; ""4.3.2 Graniteville â#x80;#x9C;78â#x80;#x9D; system""; ""4.3.3 4 -point system""; ""4.3.4 10 -point system""; ""4.4 Automatic fabric inspection techniques""; ""4.4.1 Statistical approach""; ""4.4.1.1 Autocorrelation function""; ""4.4.1.2 Local linear transform""; ""4.4.1.3 Fractal dimension""; ""4.4.1.4 Edge detection""; ""4.4.1.5 Cross-correlation""; ""4.4.1.6 Morphological operations""; ""4.4.1.7 Cooccurrence-based features""