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Quality is popular. Many speak of quality. Producers, retailers, and customers – all of them demand quality. In the sewing industry, product quality always means seam quality. So there can't be quality of the product without high-quality seams. This applies for all applications and all the areas of the sewing industry. To emphasize this topic we have chosen two major textile industries as example:
Clothing
Only few modern comforts have such a direct influence on our wellbeing as our clothes do, which we wear directly on our skin. No other technology virtually touches us in this way. And the art of producing clothes is one of the oldest technologies developed by the human race. Even the people of the ice-age protected their bodies from the cold with fur and nettings of plant fibers. This protective function of clothing has been the same ever since. But protection from cold, heat, and the weather are only some of the modern demands. There is also the human desire for beauty.
For thousands of years, clothes have had a decorating function, too. Now as then, we think of fashion and beauty and of function when we think of clothes. Seams can have a great influence on both. Seams are the connecting element, they make clothes from fabrics. They are often decoration and have the most various functions. Seams are tear proof, elastic, soft, watertight, weather-proof, easy care etc, depending on the given requirements. And they are always decisive for the product quality.
Technical textiles
Whether they are used in construction, in the industry, or in protective clothing – technical textiles are always hi-tech, innovative, and special products. Especially remarkable are their specific physical, chemical, and sewing technological characteristics. In the development of these products, the main focus is on their function. So, the requirements on their seams are special too. Sometimes, even lives can depend on these seams. For example, if a seam on a parachute or an airbag does not meet the requirements, life is in danger.
Seams are one of the essential connections in technical textiles. They make very flexible and safe connections for producing complex two or three-dimensional products. Embroideries are often seen on technical textiles too, for example in the production of fiber composites for light-weight structures in the aircraft industry. Whether sewn or embroidered, the sewing thread inserted into the textile material, must maintain or provide the function and partly even the demanding requirement profile of the entire product.
The importance of a seam's quality for the quality of the finished product is undoubted, and yet, the definition of seam quality is often hard to describe or determine. What is seam quality? Are there any standards? How can seam quality be measured? AMANN, as an experienced sewing thread and seam specialist, knows the answers.
Seam quality criteria
Quality means performance, conditions, and properties. If you want to assess a seam under these aspects, you need a detailed requirement profile. Yet, different seams make different requirements. Airbag seams, jeans seams, or upholstery seams – they all ask for different properties of the seam connections and thus have their individual requirement profiles.
However, there are indicators that are true for almost all seams. Their evaluation is the basis for assessing their quality. At AMANN, they are the basic knowledge of sewing. Every seam analysis begins with the checking of these properties. In addition, there are individual quality criteria. They must be worked out depending on the application and function. Image 1 shows the most important standard indicators and gives examples for individual quality criteria.
To consider all these criteria at once, highest product quality is needed as well as long-time experience in textile processing. AMANN unites both. Under the motto of Intelligent Threads, AMANN's high-performance products represent the hardware that is necessary to produce a high-end product. But only with the right software, AMANN's customer-oriented services, can we help you make a perfect seam which is our goal and ambition.
Product quality and Oekotex
We join together things which belong together - AMANN's large range of sizes, colors, and make-ups for industrial sewing and embroidery threads provides the right solution for any branch or application in highest product quality.
As demands made on textile products are increasing and environmental issues become more and more the focus of attention, all AMANN products are tested in accordance with Oeko-Tex Standard 100. This important and internationally recognized testing and certification system ensures that the textile products bearing this label do not represent a health hazard with respect to toxic substances.
Customer service
Besides on-site assistance in all technical sewing process issues AMANN also helps you to optimize sewing parameters, analyses saving potentials and develops sewing strategies, conducts sewing tests and provides training courses. All these steps, taken previously to manufacturing, contribute to a professional preparation with best possible parameters and therefore also to a cost-efficient production.
As an introduction AMANN has created a variety of brochures that cover different major topics in sewing process and preparation. With e.g. "Determining your sewing thread requirements" or "How to avoid seam pucker" AMANN provides all the competence which is necessary for professional and successful manufacturing.
More info. can be found on(www.amann.com)
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