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Interesting that it's just this one step that they stick to the old 80s technology. The rest of the design, inspection, weaving, cutting, etc. seems to have m
by supernova87a 3y ago
Interesting that it's just this one step that they stick to the old 80s technology. The rest of the design, inspection, weaving, cutting, etc. seems to have moved on, understandably.
By the way, did you know that (some) modern looms use jets of air/water to send the weft thread across the loom? No more shuttles or mechanical passing of the thread. Amazing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVWkZiHjreI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVWkZiHjreI
- sirmarksalot 3y agoI saw that demonstrated at the Toyota Museum of Industry and Technology in Nagoya. One of the tradeoffs with that is that you can't use cotton because it won't interact cleanly with the water, so it only works for synthetic fibers. If you ever find yourself in that part of the world, I highly recommend visiting the textile pavilion there. They basically show you 1000x throughput improvement developed over the course of a century, demonstrated in about an hour.
- masswerk 3y agoI guess, it may be difficult to find a suitable machine targeting mid-sized manufacturers with small production runs, nowadays. A replacement and retraining everybody involved and re-editing the data may just no be worth the investment, as long as the existing technology keeps up.