Terry Towel Sewability - Contribution to Productivity

Sewability is a term little used in a universe of textile industry. In fact the sewability can to determine the quality and productivity, and this fact it's so much truth how much more heavy the tissue and how fast and automated the production. It's the case of terry towel production.

In modern plants of terry towel are used automated sewing machines with high speed heads. For that reason the set needle, tissue and thread has a dynamic which can not be neglected. The forces that needles can to be submitted reach easily 5.000cN and in these circumstances there is a big probability to broken the thread and to become the needle blunt. If that happen going to lose quality, maybe a rejection, but also or more important going to lose production because it will be necessary amend the thread, replace the needle and tune the head. The University of Minho have studied these theme in particular Hélder Carvalho, researcher of textile department which developed a equipment to measure the forces built-in.

ESP8266 What is?

ESP8266 is a SOC, System on Chip, with Wifi built-in. This chip have CPU at 80Mhz and have the option to operate to 160Mhz. To have a compare, Arduino Uno operates at 16Mhz, it is a stark diference.

ESP8266 have RAM with 32kBytes for instructions and 96kBytes for data. It also have ROM with 64kBytes and Flash memory with 512kBytes. The small ESP8266 have GPIO pins, I2C, SPI, UART, analogic input, PWM output and internal temperature sensor.