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Seamless Garments - An Overview
By  : B. Senthil Kumar 

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  1. Minimum yarn consumption: Most of the fabric wastages occur at cutting stage, since this seamless garment excludes this process fabric consumption per garment is less, so the yarn consumption also very low. Additionally, yarn consumption can be minimized at knitting by means of effectively analyzing yarn feed through the computerized system on the knitting machine. E.g. DSCS (Digital Stitch Control System) on Shima Seiki machine predetermines how much yarn is required for the each stitch3.

  2. Smaller work space: Involvement of sewing operation is less except few cases in the garment production system, which leads less space requirement.

  3. Reduce yarn and fabric inventory: Cutting and sewing process require more fabric as well as yarn inventory due the absence of this process no need of maintaining huge inventory.

  4. Quick samples: Sampling is a costly as well as time consuming process, because small portion of fabric as well accessories need to be prepared .since this seamless garment is exemption, here we can prepare quick samples.

  5. Fewer product failure: Most of the garment failures are due to seam failure the seamless garment doesn't have the seam, so that garment failure is also very less.

  6. Engineered features like comfort, fit, and ventilation we can obtain from this technology.

  7. Cost of production is less: This leads to saving of production costs up to 40 percent compared to the customary garment production system

  8. Design possibilities: Seamless garment Technology not only to create several types of tubular formed knitting but also to build diverse design structures on the tubular knitted garments simultaneously.

  9. Just in time production: Just-in-time production is possible with the help of seamless technology. In certain markets, seamless knitting could be considered for mass customization4 by rapid design changes according to customers' requirements through computerized knitting systems.


In addition to the above an entire piece produced from seamless technology is claimed to provide more consistent product quality .Consequently, seamless knitwear is promoted to look better, fit better and is believed to be much more comfortable. This technology also allows knit designers to create design structures and patterns across the entire garment, and also it allows for mass customization with respect to customer requirement .In the global environment, according to Shima, seamless garment knitting puts less stress on the environment by minimizing waste disposal


Technical Issues


Although seamless garment knitting technology provides a variety of advantages for the knitting industry, it still has several technical issues.


1)       The main problem in complete garment knitting is fabric take up5.

2)       Maintaining the tension of each loop (i.e., stitch) is difficult.

3)       Fabric design as well as garment design on jacquard is highly difficult task.

4)       Problem to make the welt and cuff portions.

5)       Frequent changes in the knitting machine setting



 

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 Published On :  Friday, November 07, 2008

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