Product design clothing

As sustainability becomes an important supply chain attribute, manufacturers are being forced to find mechanisms to reuse or recycle used products. We have considered examples of reuse (Kodak cameras, returned clothing and donated T-shirts) and recycling (Dupont s silver and Home Depots pallets). The supply chain and product design have to be organized to manage the Four Cs of the return flows effectively. The return flows impact choices of participants in the supply chain (retailers or the... 

Work started in the autumn of 1998 with a brainstorming phase which ended in the spring of 1999. A product design phase followed and the prototype was tested in Northern Lapland during the winter of 1999 2000. Maximum publicity was one of the objectives of the project. A well-planned press release and a show were organized for spring 2000, and the show was filmed by more than ten international TV stations. Finally, the experiences from the prototype and the smart clothing philosophy were displayed in the Finnish pavilion at the Expo 2000 World Fair in Hanover. 

In the production of clothing, partial and complete pictures as well as single- and multisize pictures are distinguished. In contrast to the complete picture, partial pictures have only the contours of one design side (right side or back side of the design). This happens when the fabric is folded in the middle. One-size pictures have only the components of one clothing size. 

Since its conception, the dynamic filter has been widely reported and further developed. Most European designs are comprised of a multistage disk arrangement (Fig. 28) with both the rotating and stationary elements covered with filter cloth, thus utilising the space inside the pressure vessel. Such filters have been found (29) to be from 5 to 25 times more productive in mass of dry cake per unit area and time than filter presses for the same moisture content of the final slurry. In some cases, the moisture content with the dynamic filter was actually lower than with a filter press. The maximum productivity was achieved with peripheral disk speeds from 2.8 to 4.5 m/s. 

Nonwoven wipe categories include products for babies and adults, the food service and electronics industries, medical and clean room appHcations, industrial cleaning, computer diskettes, and household products such as dusters, tea towels, shoe cleaning cloths, towelettes, and hand towels. Nonwoven fabrics are used to filter air, water, petroleum (qv), food, and beverages. Nonwovens loaded with abrasives, cleansers, or finishes can be found in a variety of products used by many industries and in many homes to scour or poHsh. Also, a majority of garments designed to protect industrial workers and consumers from hazardous environments are made from nonwoven fabrics. 

As discussed previously, a number of different materials have been considered as potential candidates to be used as diffusion layers in PEMFCs and direct liquid fuel cells (DLFCs). The two materials used the most so far in fuel cell research and products are carbon fiber papers and carbon cloths, also known as carbon woven fabrics. Both materials are made from carbon fibers. Although these materials have been quite popular for fuel cells, they have a number of drawbacks—particularly with respect to their design and model complexity—that have led to the study of other possible materials. The following sections discuss in detail the main materials that have been used as diffusion layers, providing an insight into how these materials are fabricated and how they affect fuel cell performance. 

Figure 3.2. Generalized clean room design. Entry of personnel occurs via changing rooms, where the operators first remove their outer garments and subsequently put on suitable clean room clothing (see e.g. Figure 3.3). All raw materials, portable equipment, etc. enters the clean room via a transfer lock. After being placed in the transfer lock, such items are sanitized (where possible) by, for example, being rubbed down with a disinfectant solution. They are then transferred into the clean room proper, by clean room personnel. Processed product usually exits the clean room via an exit transfer lock and personnel often exit the room via a changing room separate from the one they entered (in some cases, the same changing room is used as an entry and exit route). Note that, in practice, product may be processed in a number of different (adjacent) clean rooms...

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