The evolution of the textile industry has brought about big changes in the function of plant-engineering. Present-day production machines and processes have developed out of all recognition from their forebears. They have become complex and intricate, and incorporate some of the most advanced engineering techniques. The Encyclopaedia of Textiles contains the areas: Textile Management Textile Designing Textile Automation Textile Mechanics Textile Spinning and Weaving Technology The textile has undergone many profound changes, and it seems that processes and methods in textile technology will continue to change with far-reaching effects on administrative procedures.
Professor P.V. Vidyasagar born in Karnataka and took his Textile Engineering in 1978. He was Honorary Associated Professor in the School of Textile Technology and the University of Bradford, and took voluntary retirement in 1989. During this petirement in 1989. During this period he travelled extensively over Europe, the Middle East and the America on consultation work. His research work over the years has concentrated on the interaction of surfactants with dyestuffs and the effect of surfactants and the effect of surfacants on the carbonising of wool, and he has numerous articles on the subject. His earlier book entitled Handbook of Textiles has been widely acclaimed.
The textile industry is one of the oldest so that the history of technological and social development in industry is generally well illustrated by the changes that take place in the manufacture of cot- ton and woollen goods. From the medieval times until the middle of eighteenth century, all work was done under the domestic system. The work was done in small family units, and there is no reason to suppose that either the hours were shorter or the physical conditions superior to those so vividly described in the literature of the later factory period. The gradual change to the factory system was the inevitable result of the introduction of steam power, which meant that work had to be performed in a central building, close to the sources of power, first water and later coal. For a short time, hand-weavers enjoyed great prosperity because their labour was in demand to keep up with the enormously increased output of the new mechanical spinning mills before the power loom was invented, and, by the first quarter of the nineteenth century, workers in both spinning and weaving were forced to find work in the new factories at greatly reduced rates of pay.
The evolution of the textile industry has brought about big changes in the function of plant-engineering. Present-day production machines and processes have developed out of all recognition from their forebears. They have become complex and intricate, and incorporate some of the most advanced engineering techniques.
Electronics, hydraulics and pneumatics have all come to share in the replacement of conventional electrical and mechanical systems, to give easier, quicker, and more readily adjustable controls. Automatic control methods, and, to some degree, true automation, could, in fact, be considered as the major features. As in the precision-engineering field of automobile and machine-tool manufacture, these developments in textile-machine control have brought with them a demand for a different type of maintenance engineer in the mills, men trained to a high degree of academic and practical skill
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