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process parameters and avoid human mistakes. To avoid any downtime in a cutting
room, in real time via Internet connection, service professionals diagnose automated
systems and ensure their optimal working conditions 24 h per day.
However, I hope very much that the day will not come soon when professionals de-
veloping specialized software and technicians assisting advanced automated systems
will have more knowledge about textile cutting than people working with these auto-
mated systems in manufacturing sites. I also hope, that after 5–7 years still will be po-
tential readers for the third edition of ‘Industrial cutting of textile materials’ and I will
find a lot of new and interesting technology improvements to research and described.
My greatest success, as an author, in developing the second edition of the book is
cooperation with three industry companies supporting manufacturers of textile goods
with new technologies and equipment – Cosmotex (Spain), Eastman (United States),
and Eurolaser (Germany). Cooperation with them gave me absolutely new invaluable
knowledge about many topics. This knowledge is based on long-time professionally
collected information and careful research of traditional and currently used technolo-
gies with one main aim – to find new possibilities for further improvements. By help
of the professionals of these companies, automated textile spreading and cutting and
laser cutting processes are described in a much wider and deeper way than in the first
edition of the book.
I would like to express my greatest gratitude to the people who shared their pro-
fessional knowledge with me and supported the development of the second edition of
Industrial cutting of textile materials. They are Mr. Jordi Xarles Jubany (Director and
Partner of company Cosmotex, Spain), Mr. Robert L. Stevenson (President and CEO
of Eastman Machine Company, United States), Ms. Elizabeth McGruder (Marketing
Manager of company Eastman, United States), and Mr. Ingo Knifka (till the end of
2017 Marketing Manager of Eurolaser GmbH, Germany).