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The global textile and clothing industry : technological advances and future challenges /
Advances in technology, combined with the ever-evolving needs of the global market, are having a strong impact on the textile and clothing sector. The global textile and clothing industry: Technological advances and future challenges provides an essential review of these changes, and considers their...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Woodhead Pub.,
�2012.
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| Colección: | Woodhead publishing in textiles ;
135. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Advances in technology, combined with the ever-evolving needs of the global market, are having a strong impact on the textile and clothing sector. The global textile and clothing industry: Technological advances and future challenges provides an essential review of these changes, and considers their implications for future strategies concerning production and marketing of textile products. Beginning with a review of trends in the global textile industry, the book goes on to consider the impact of environmental regulation on future textile products and processes. Following this, the importance of innovation-driven textile research and development, and the role of strategic technology roadmapping are highlighted. Both the present structure and future adaptation of higher education courses in textile science are reviewed, before recent advances in textile manufacturing technology, including joining techniques, 3D body scanning and garment design and explored in depth. Finally, The global textile and clothing industry concludes by considering automating textile preforming technology for the mass production of fibre-reinforced polymer (FRP) composites. With its distinguished editor and international team of expert contributors, The global textile and clothing industry: Technological advances and future challenges is an essential guide to key challenges and developments in this industrial sector. Comprehensively examines the implications of technological advancements and the evolving needs of the global market on the textile and clothing industry and considers their role on the future of textile manufacturingThe importance of innovation-driven textile research and development and the role of strategic technology roadmapping are thoroughly investigatedRecent advances in textile manufacturing technology, including joining techniques, 3D body scanning and garment design and explored in depth. |
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| Notas: | "Textile Institute." |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xviii, 204 pages : illustrations). |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780857095626 0857095625 |
| ISSN: | 2042-0803 ; |