Month: May 2012

Pop Quiz: Designing a t-shirt sewing cell

Here’s a different kind of challenge for you -beginning industrial engineering using the simple example of t-shirts. Are you excited yet? Don’t go away, it could be fun and you may be surprised at how well you do. But first I want to tell you about a free Juki app for iPhone and iPad (HT: Jessica Montoya) because it can be used as a sort of cheat sheet and also, I am using some of the images from it (without permission) but Juki may look the other way if I plug it.…

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3 ways to reduce pattern digitizing costs

Again culling from emails sent in my absence, there seems to be significant cost disparity when getting price quotes for having patterns digitized versus the final bill so I will try to clear up some of the confusion. The first confusion relates to per piece pricing, the second can be related to the CAD program (or scanner) your service provider is using and the third amounts to preparedness.…

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