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Revolutionary relaxation process for sweater manufacturing Relaxation is a major procedure in sweater manufacturing to restore fabric properties and performance. Conventional washing and tumble drying (WTD) is time consuming, involves much water and energy consumption, and creates wasterwater discharge. It also adversely affects the surface texture of the product. A low-pressure relaxation (LPR) chamber and a new LPR process developed by The Hong Kong Research Institute of Textiles and Apparel replaces conventional WTD for sweater relaxation. The new process is much more efficient, cost effective, environmentally friendly, and able to improve product’s properties in terms of dimensional stability, fabric appearance, and hand feel.
Sliding Plating Process
Unlike simple liquid immersion, the Sliding Plating Process, from Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, is a new plating process in which areas requiring plating are contacted with a rotating anode and deposited while sliding. Compared to conventional plating, it has low cost and low environment load, and can perform plating with high speed and high quality. The practical use of this process has reduced the amount of plating solution used to 1/10 and significantly reduced the environmental impact, enabling technological innovation in consideration of the environment. Mitsubishi commercialized a new technology to improve the productivity of the plating process, which has become a production bottleneck in many businesses.
SOFTWARE/SERVICES Tactical Microgrid Standard Open Architecture When soldiers set up remote bases, they need reliable power grids to run everything from general appliances to sensing, weapons, and communications equipment. Fuel convoys are frequently attacked, taking a high toll in human lives, and raising fuel costs up to $200 per gallon. Then, when the fuel and equipment arrive at the remote location, soldiers must set up and operate these power grids with little previous training and under harsh conditions. MIT Lincoln Laboratory’s Tactical Microgrid Standard (TMS) Open Architecture encapsulates significant advances from previously available microgrid capabilities and helps to solve these problems going forward. Through a unique combination of cutting-edge ideas and technologies from academia and industry, TMS makes it possible to connect a family of interoperable microgrid devices, accommodating multiple manufacturers and legacy equipment, and improving both acquisitions and field operations. WWW.RDWORLDONLINE.COM
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