Sewing equipment and work aids
Abstract
This chapter introduces different characteristics of sewing machine and work aids for best sewing performance. Any sewing operator effectively spends only about one-fourth of the time on sewing and rest of the time is spent on handling, aligning, folding, and creasing the flexible fabric component. Thus, the study of sewing equipment aims to reduce handling time. While appropriate selection of machine bed types and work aids reduces the handling time, and de-skills the operation, correct selection of feed type ensures quality consistency of the merchandise. The section on computerised sewing machines carefully explains the features offered ...
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