Key words
Manufacturing techniques
Objectives
* Making of well-founded product analysis for specific garments.
* Gaining insight into the various product and transport systems within the production department of a clothing factory. Explaining, analysing and justifying the consequences of this choice for each system, as far as distribution of work as well as production process are concerned.
* Explaining and justifying the most frequently used production techniques in clothing manufacture.
* Constructing manufacturing techniques in the most logical and reliable way, using machines designed for that purpose.
* Programming Jacquard-designs + patterns in knitwear, produced by linear robots.
Topics
Ordinary fabrics: Theory and exercises
Product analysis of trousers with basic exercises
Instruction register for mens' trousers with working documents, determining quality requirements and tolerances, tuning and production process.
* Production and transport systems
* Finishing of women's and men's trousers.
* Working out a proper collection and if possible a project collection in collaboration with lecturers of fashion, CAD/CAM, patterning, materials know-how.
Prerequisites
First grade clothing or equal training completed successfully
Final Objectives
Materials used
- teacher's course
- other textbook(s)
- background information
- scientific & technical literature
- school library materials ...
- others
Study costs
Materials: 120 €
Visit to a factory: 25 €
Course: 12 €
Study guidance
Teaching Methods
- lectures
- demonstrations
- case studies
- exercises
- others
- individual reports
- group reports
- individual presentations
- field work
- home study
Assessment
- Scoring system :
written examination
written tests
others
oral examination
oral tests
assignments
Lecturer(s)
Linda Van Wesemael - Kristien Temmerman
|
|
