Automation in textile manufacturing plays a pivotal role in enhancing production efficiency, precision, and innovation. This study investigates the integration of intelligent technologies in the knitting sector, focusing on industrial flat knitting m...
Wearable e-textiles are able to perform electronic functions and are perceived as a way to add features into common wearable textiles, building competitive market advantages. The e-textile production has become not only a research effort but also an...
Embedding temperature sensors within textiles provides an easy method for measuring skin temperature. Skin temperature measurements are an important parameter for a variety of health monitoring applications, where changes in temperature can indicate...
This study analyzes how sustainability research in the textile and apparel industry is structured and argues that technological innovation—while essential for sustainable transformation—cannot generate meaningful impact when pursued in is...
The COVID-19 pandemic has hugely affected the textile and apparel industry. Besides the negative impact due to supply chain disruptions, drop in demand, liquidity problems, and overstocking, this pandemic was found to be a window of opportunity since...
The rapid evolution of innovative materials and their 4D printing on fabrics allows textiles to change shape or properties when exposed to external stimuli. This work reviews the fundamentals of 4D printing, briefly revisiting additive manufacturing...
Over recent years, many architectural and urban surfaces interact with the environment like a changing skin, adaptable to environmental stimuli. The textile technology appears to be the most suitable to meet the requirement of adaptability to the env...
This article presents the results of tests on the resistance of new textile signal lines to bending and abrasion. The textile signal lines are one of the most important parts of the electronic system incorporated into modern smart garments. The main...
The Internet of Things (IoT) scenario is strongly related with the advance of the development of wireless sensor networks (WSN) and radio frequency identification (RFID) systems. Additionally, in the WSN context, for a continuous feed, the integratio...
Textile mills are a critical component of the textile processing sector, and their development directly affects production effciency, resource consumption, occupational health, and sustainable industrial upgrading. Although textile materials, process...
This study presents a data-driven framework that integrates lean management and digital business process modelling to enhance sustainability in textile manufacturing. Conducted in a company producing industrial safety textiles from Peru, this researc...
A recent trend in the development of high mass consumption electron devices is towards electronic textiles (e-textiles), smart wearable devices, smart clothes, and flexible or printable electronics. Intrinsically soft, stretchable, flexible, Wearable...
In the context of the global economic slowdown, demand forecasting, and inventory and production management have long been important topics to the industries. With the support of smart warehouses, big data analytics, and optimization algorithms, ente...
The textile and clothing industry has historically exerted a significant negative impact on the environment. Excessive water consumption, chemical pollution, and soil degradation are just a few of the pressing environmental concerns linked to this se...
Non-invasive continuous health monitoring has become feasible with the advancement of biosensors. While monitoring certain biomarkers such as heart rate or skin temperature are now at a certain maturity, monitoring molecular biomarkers is still chall...
This study aims to examine how digital supply chain (DSC) dimensions—including digital performance measurement, information technology, digital suppliers, manufacturing, logistics and inventory, and digital client management—influence sup...
Advances in flexible electronic materials and smart textile, along with broad availability of smart phones, cloud and wireless systems have empowered the wearable technologies for significant impact on future of digital and personalized healthcare as...
The critical need for accurate and non-invasive temperature monitoring is prevalent in extreme environments, such as scuba diving. Current temperature measurement technologies present limitations, prompting the development of innovative solutions. We...
The global textile and apparel sectors are undergoing rapid technological transformation driven by digital manufacturing tools such as 3D printing. However, in Ethiopia, the level of adoption of these technologies remains largely unexplored. To inves...
Smart textiles and wearable antennas along with broadband mobile technologies have empowered the wearable sensors for significant impact on the future of digital health care. Despite the recent development in this field, challenges related to lack of...
The adoption of smart waste management systems (SWMSs) is increasingly important for textile organizations seeking to improve sustainability while addressing interconnected technological, managerial, organizational, and environmental constraints. A p...
Smart textile interfaces hold promise for battery-free wearable interaction, yet their adoption is limited by complex fabrication and insufficient on-body evaluation. We present TriboTex, a low-cost spray-patterning workflow that forms nylon–Cu...
Cardiovascular diseases remain the leading cause of global mortality, yet conventional diagnostics are episodic and clinic-centered, missing the dynamic physiological events that unfold between encounters. Wearable devices offer continuous, real-worl...
Freezing of gait (FOG) is a disabling yet poorly understood paroxysmal gait disorder affecting the vast majority of patients with Parkinson’s disease (PD) as they reach advanced stages of the disorder. Falling is one of the most disabling conse...
This research paper examines the environmental impact of natural and synthetic fur coats, focusing exclusively on the processing and manufacturing stages. Using one coat weighing approximately 5 kg as the functional unit, a comparative Life Cycle Ass...