Description
Textile technologists are in charge of the optimisation of the textile manufacturing system management, both traditional and innovative. They develop and supervise the textile production system according to the quality system: processes of spinning, weaving, knitting, finishing namely dyeing, finishes, printing with appropriate methodologies of organisation, management and control and using emerging textile technologies.
EssentialOptional
Theoretical Knowledge
quality standardshealth and safety in the textile industrytextile technologiestypes of textile fibresresearch and development in textilestextile finishing technologystaple spinning machine technologyknitting machine technologymetrologycontrol systemstufting technologytextile printing technologyfabric typesproperties of textile materialsdyeing technologybraiding technology
Practical Skills
check quality of products in textile production lineuse weaving machine technologiesuse textile technique for hand-made productsmanufacture braided productsconvert textile fibres into sliverseek innovation in current practicesoversee yarn characterisationconduct textile testing operationsdevelop specifications of technical textilesdistinguish accessoriescontrol textile processconduct quality control analysisset-up weft knitting machinesuse sustainable materials and componentsmanufacture nonwoven staple productsdesign weft knitted fabricscovert slivers into threadmanufacture texturised filament yarnsfinish processing of man-made fibrestest physical properties of textilesmanufacture staple yarnsuse warp preparation technologiesplan the web forming techniques for non-wovenmanufacture man-made fibresuse textile finishing machine technologiesmanufacture woven fabricsmanufacture non-woven filament productsperform data analysismanufacture knitted textilestend textile printing machinesdraw sketches to develop textile articlestend textile dyeing machines