Objective Clothes manufacturing companies have a strong need for improved quality of their products in order to keep their market interest against the keen competition of third countries. DOUROS S.A. is one of the most important companies in Greece manufacturing high quality clothes and wishes to develop a reliable, real-time quality control system for the inspection of both the incoming raw fabric and the finished garments. At present quality control is performed by human supervisors and thus the results are subjective and cannot cover all the defect types. Therefore, the reliability of the final product is reduced. Typical defect types of the incoming fabric are holes, colour shadows or oil spots, colour differences and thick yarns. Some common faults of finished garments are the incorrect sizing, the different distances of collar ends from the garment centre line, as well as the wrong pocket location or orientation. . . The present project aims at the incorporation of advanced visual and data acquisition techniques, as well as neural network technologies into the production line of a garment manufacture, in order to improve the real-time quality control of both the incoming fabric and the finished clothes. The new automated control system is expected to achieve the followings : at the first stage, the detectable size of the raw fabric defects will be reduced from a few mm now to less than 0 5 mm . At the second stage the error in measured size will be reduced from 10 mm to 1 mm.After the above improvements, the overall customers rejection percentage of finished goods is expected to be reduced at least one order of magnitude. The consortium consists of a manufacturer of high quality clothes (DOUROS S.A ) as the end user of the new quality control system, a company with expertise in industrial applications and automated vision systems (EDIXIA), two designers and manufacturers of mechanical systems and industrial equipment (ASATEC and TTE), an R&D Company specialized in parallel processing, Neural Network and expert systems (TECNOTESSILE), a research centre with expertise in textile industrial application and quality control processes (ITF), a rusk industry interested in applicating the proposed quality control practice in its production and packaging lines (ELITE S.A.) and a company developing automated control mechanical and electronic systems (General Automation Ltd). Brite/Euram III Areas covered by the proposal are: 1 1 and 2.3 of thc CRAFT Programme. In particular the research tasks of the proposed project comply with the short-term tasks decribed in 1.1.4.5 2.3.1.5 2.3.2.5 and the medium tasks in 1.1 3 M, 2 3 3.M. Fields of science engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringcontrol systemsengineering and technologymaterials engineeringcolorsengineering and technologymaterials engineeringtextilesnatural sciencescomputer and information sciencesartificial intelligenceexpert systemsnatural sciencescomputer and information sciencesartificial intelligencecomputational intelligence Programme(s) FP4-BRITE/EURAM 3 - Specific research and technological development programme in the field of industrial and materials technologies, 1994-1998 Topic(s) 0101 - Incorporation of new technologies into production systems Call for proposal Data not available Funding Scheme CRS - Cooperative research contracts Coordinator Douros SA EU contribution No data Address 80,Maragopoulou Street 80 263 31 Patras Greece See on map Total cost No data Participants (6) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all BREAD INDUSTRY ELITE S.A. Greece EU contribution No data Address 21TH KM,Marathonos Avenue 21th KM 19009 RAPHINA (PIKEERMI) See on map Total cost No data Computer Technology Institute Greece EU contribution No data Address 3,Kolokotroni 26110 Patras See on map Total cost No data Edixia France EU contribution No data Address Zart des Pirriâres 35772 Vern-sur-Seiche See on map Total cost No data INSTITUT FRANCAIS DU TEXTILE ET DE L'HABILLEMENT France EU contribution No data Address Avenue Guy de Collongue 69134 ECULLY See on map Total cost No data TECNOTESSILE - SOCIETA NAZIONALE DI RICERCA TENOLOGICA R.L. Italy EU contribution No data Address Via del Gelso 13 59100 PRATO See on map Total cost No data Talia - Tecnoequipe Srl Italy EU contribution No data Address Via Donatello 13 50046 Poggio a Caiano Prato See on map Total cost No data
