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Introduction to cutting room 1

operations in textile good

manufacture

1.1 Introduction

A cutting room is a separate area in a production enterprise where components for
textile goods are cut out. Before cutting takes place, textile materials for cutting are
stored, counted, and inspected; cutting process is planned; markers to cut components
are created; and fabric spreads are laid out for cutting. Some garment components
may then be fused with interlinings. All components are then inspected, sorted, and
bundled for further processing.
Many of the activities in the cutting room were traditionally performed manually.
The quality of the process was dependent on the skills and experience of the cutting
room workers. Now, the most part of work processes, such as cutting process plan-
ning, marker making, spreading, and cutting, is automated and can be performed much
faster and with more consistent quality than in manual processing.

1.2 Storage, registration and inspection of materials

Textile materials are usually stored in a separate area before they are required in the
cutting room. Before use, they have to be registered and inspected to plan the work
process and ensure the necessary number of high-quality cut components. The data
obtained during inspection are footage (length), width, the number of different shades
of any one colour, potential shrinkage after fusing, and others. Storage, registration,
and inspection of delivered textile materials are described in Chapter 2.

1.3 Lay planning and marker-making processes

When all the necessary data about the textile materials delivered to the cutting room
have been obtained, lay planning and marker-making processes may be performed.
The process of lay planning is important because it determines further work processes
in a cutting room. Several factors that influence productivity and work efficiency in
the cutting room are taken into account in performing the lay planning process.
To ensure efficient fabric utilization and organize an efficient work process in a
cutting room, pattern pieces for more than one article are typically combined in every
marker, the number of fabric plies (or layers) in every spread is determined, and the
number of spreads needed for the markers required is determined.
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