New task for the computer: making clothes
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Engineers and computer scientists at two Georgia colleges - Southern College of Technology and Georgia Institute of Technology - harness computers to industrial sewing machines, showing that garments can be produced more quickly and cheaply than is done in conventional clothing factories. The clothing industry has trailed others in integrating computers into factories, but according to William O. Mitchell, who represents the American Apparel Manufacturers Association, what these colleges are doing should be taken seriously. According to T. Dale Stewart, a research technician at Southern Tech, sewing machines had to be made more versatile, and the Georgia group has developed ways to reprogram the machines, so that each piece of computerized equipment can do many tasks instead of just one. In the future, an assembly line making many kinds of garments might be controlled by a single computer.
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 1990
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Keeping clothes defect-free
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Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology are developing techniques that minimizes defective products in garment-manufacture operations. Piezoelectric sensors are used to identify problems in sewing needles and the motion of thread. Data is sent from sewing machines to a computer for analysis. If thread breaks or if a needle becomes worn or is defective, a signal alerts a machine's operator. Defects in garment-making operations can be costly. It is hoped, therefore, that the sort of technology being developed at Georgia Tech will both improve the quality of clothing and lower the cost of producing it. The research being done at Georgia Tech is part of a larger research project that is being sponsored by the United States Defense Logistics Agency. The Defense Logistics Agency both makes and purchases military uniforms.
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 1992
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Industry group pushes for trade law changes
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A coalition of apparel, textile and fiber industries desire changes in the U.S. trade laws. They specifically lobbied for filing procedure changes to expedite court cases.
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 1983
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