Fashionable : supervisor control system

A new flexible manufacturing process has been implemented in order to produce bounded fabrics with customized properties. A stretch-leather is the target with customized properties to be developed through a continuous bounding, thermal treatment and chemical treatment. Flexibility has been exploited in terms of customizable textile materials and fabrics to bound with leather (substitution of traditional Lycra and latex for bounding process), changing of mechanical stretch and enlargement of working area. The SCADA software developed within the project, aimed at supervising the machine behavior and controlling main parameters allowing the customization of mechanical properties (elasticity, resiliency, surface resistance, thickness) functional properties (breathability, absorption, softness, thermal regulation) and productivity.