Predicting Seam Appearance Quality

The appearance of a garment is affected by the quality of the fabrics used in its manufacture, as well as a number of factors determined by the technology of the garment manufacturing process. Since fabric quality, as the most important element of garment appearance, is determined by its mechanical properties, it is obvious that these properties directly impact fabric processing properties. It can be seen through various forms of fabric behavior under the loads that occur in sewing. Investigations of the correlations of the stress and fabric behavior are aimed at constructing a system to predict fabric behavior in garment manufacturing processes, as well as to predict the appearance of the garment to be manufactured. The investigation presented here deals with the impact of fabric mechanical properties on the quality of seam appearance, as defined by seam puckering and work-piece flotation. Machine learning methods included in the Orange software package were used to establish the importance of mechanical properties with respect to fabric behavior.