The textile engineering reference

Textile engineering, from fibre to finished garment

Worked references and interactive tools for mills, merchandisers and technologists — spinning, weaving, knitting, wet processing, finishing, garmenting and quality control. Every calculator shows its formula, a worked example and the standard behind it.

The calculators mills open most

The tools mills open most often. Every one runs in the browser, free, with the formula and a worked example on the page.

  1. Fabric GSM & Yarn Consumption Calculator Weaving & Fabric Construction
  2. Twist Multiplier to TPI & TPM Calculator Yarn Spinning & Preparation
  3. Tech Pack Graded Measurement Generator Merchandising, Retail Math & Apparel Production
  4. Woven Geotextile Sieve Size vs Soil Particle Retention Geosynthetics & Civil Engineering
  5. Product Specification Limits & Process Capability Builder Product Engineering, Specifications & Feasibility
  6. Cut-to-Ship Ratio & Wastage Calculator Apparel Manufacturing & Garmenting
  7. Fabric Consumption per Garment Calculator Apparel Manufacturing & Garmenting
  8. Measurement System Analysis (Gage R&R) Calculator Product Engineering, Specifications & Feasibility
  9. Embroidery Stitch Count, Thread & Backing Consumption Calculator Apparel Manufacturing & Garmenting
  10. Marker Efficiency & Fabric Yield Estimator Apparel Manufacturing & Garmenting
  11. Two-for-One Twister Production & Power Calculator Advanced Spinning, Texturizing & Twisting
  12. Process Capability Cp, Cpk, Pp, Ppk & Specification Fit Quality Systems, Traceability, Utilities & Factory Decisions

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The decisions a calculator will not make for you

Full costing sheets, booking schedules and project appraisals. Enter your own figures and see the headline result before you buy.

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Registers this site keeps current

Dated obligations, test methods across the bodies that issue them, machine specifications from the builders' own sheets, the trade fairs worth the airfare, daily fibre prices and the US duty schedule — each maintained against its published source, each saying plainly what it does not yet cover.

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Written by people who do the work

Professors, mill technologists and laboratory managers sign their own articles here, with the position and the institution the reader is being asked to trust.

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Ashok Hakoo

Ashok Hakoo

Tech. Textile and Management Consultant · Fabtech Solutions, India

Ashok Hakoo is a technical textile and management consultant, who undertake projects on mill operational activities and provides solutions to technical and management shop floor problems. He has an extensive business background in international, multi-cultural environments with proven achievements in textile technology and management, operational functional applications, for conventional and technical fabrics. He is currently working with Fabtech Solutions as a textile Consultant.

29 articles

Subrata Das, Dr.

Subrata Das, Dr.

Professor (Fashion Technology) · Bannari Amman Institute of Technology, Sathyamangalam

Dr Subrata Das has a graduation degree in Textile Technology from Government College of Engineering and Textile Technology, Serampore, West Bengal, India. He has Masters and a PhD degree from I.I.T., Delhi, India. He has over 32 years of experience in production, quality assurance, technical and social compliance audit and R&D in reputed industries in India and Bangladesh. He has published 70 research papers in peer-reviewed journals and has 62 technical papers in national and international journals. He has written 6 international books on apparel, home textiles, and product safety. He has expertise in ISO/IEC 17025 auditing and is a Technical Expert, GOTS and OCS audit, under NABCB, Govt of India. At present, he is working as a Professor (Fashion Technology), Bannari Amman Institute of Technology, Sathyamangalam, Erode District, Tamil Nadu, India.

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K Murugesh Babu, Dr.

K Murugesh Babu, Dr.

Professor & Head, Dept. of Textile Tech. · Bapuji Institute of Engineering and Technology

Dr.Babu obtained his B.Tech (Textile Technology) degree in the year 1986 from BIET securing first class with distinction. He pursued his higher studies at Anna University, Chennai and got his M.Tech (Textile technology) postgraduate degree in the year 1991. His urge for research made him pursue his PhD further. He was awarded IIT research fellowship from IIT Delhi in the year 2001. Dr.Babu was awarded the prestigious “Commonwealth Fellowship” by the Association of Commonwealth Universities, the UK in 2014. Under this fellowship, he was invited as a Visiting Professor by the University of Maroua, Cameroon, Central Africa to establish and develop the Department of Textiles. Dr.Babu has published about 85 research papers in various national and international textile and polymer-related research journals. He has also contributed 7 Book Chapters in textbooks published from Wood Head Publishing House, Cambridge, a UK based international publishing house and his textbook entitled Silk – “Processing, Properties and Applications” was published in 2011. The second edition of this book will be published in 2019. He is also recognized as a Technical Referee for 10 international refereed textile/polymer journals. His name has been included in “World’s Who’s Who 2010 Edition”. Apart from his curricular activities, Dr Babu is a Hindustani Classical Vocalist and a graded artist in Light Music Category of All India Radio and Television. International research invitations: - Oxford University (Oxford Biomaterials Ltd.), the UK on Silk Based Biomaterials in the year 2006 - Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong during 2007-2008 on Shape Memory Textiles and Garments Dr Babu is presently working as a Professor and Head of the Department of Textile Technology and Research Centre and Dean (Public and International Affairs). M.Tech., PhD (IITD) Dean (Public Affairs) Davangere 577004, Karnataka, India

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