Digital Textile Key Technologies

The development of textile and computer technology, as well as the use of Internet, have influenced the production design, manufacture, marketing, and management of traditional companies of weaving industry deeply. Now companies are being rebuilt by those technologies to survive in the more and more serious competition, and digital textile technology has been put forward. Digital textile technology is a new technology integrated with CAD/CAM, computer monitor-control, network, and e-commerce, which can be applied in all traditional companies of weaving industry. The target of digital textile technology is to realize the digitalization of those companies. This paper discusses the application of digital textile technology from three aspects: digital design, digital manufacture, and digital marketing.The key task of digital design is developing a photographic woven CAD, which can transform samples of graph to point paper. This system establishes its own weaves library, and improves the quality of the transformation by changing color space, adding digital filter, adjusting the system tolerance, and adding manual map. Also an evaluation model is established, which analyzes the entropy, cross entropy, root mean square error, and peak-to-peak signal-to-noise ratio of two images.The key task of digital manufacture is realizing the network for loom, and develop the corresponding monitor-control system. With excellent software and hardware composition, application of multithread and real-time database, this system can real-timely monitor the looms, provide the auto-downloading of design files and statistic of output.The key task of digital marketing is establishing the e-commerce system for weaving companies. The website of this system which use J2EE as the develop framework, realize the on-line exhibition of the production and on-line marketing. Data encryption and firewalltechnology are adopted to meet the security demands of e-commerce.