Merging Footwear Design and Functionality

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 372-381
Author(s):  
Suzana Kutnjak-Mravlinčić ◽  
Jadranka Akalović ◽  
Sandra Bischof
Keyword(s):  
Science And Technology ◽  
Raw Material ◽  
Quality Level ◽  
Material Content ◽  
Production Concept ◽  
Wear And Tear ◽  
Similar Appearance ◽  
Key Aspects ◽  
Footwear Design

AbstractFunctionality and appearance are key aspects of good footwear. Developments in recent science and technology offer a wider scope of innovations, contributing to diversity and higher complexity of the production concept of footwear. Contemporary industrial footwear market offers a practically limitless number of new design and fashion solutions, often of quite similar appearance, but with significant differences in quality level, both regarding manufacture, raw material content, durability, and in some special functional finishes. The materials for footwear manufacture are functionalized for functional protective purposes, such as antimicrobial, waterproofing, fire resistant, wear and tear resistant, and recently for some therapeutical purposes. Novelties in material functionalization for the materials built in the footwear are most often promoted and presented on tags and labels and are used as advertisement issues, while some functionalities have become a logo for some brands.

scholarly journals Study on the Preparation and Properties of Impervious and Breathable Sand Based on Hydrophobic Theory

Materials ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (19) ◽  
pp. 5613
Author(s):  
Xiao Li ◽  
Xiong Zhang ◽  
Hao Ren
Keyword(s):  
Contact Angle ◽  
Hydrostatic Pressure ◽  
Air Permeability ◽  
Coating Material ◽  
Raw Material ◽  
Sustainable Utilization ◽  
Land Resources ◽  
Nano Structure ◽  
Material Content ◽  
Pressure Resistance

Land desertification, a severe global ecological and environmental problem, brings challenges to the sustainable utilization of land resources in the world. The purpose of this research is to use hydrophobic theory to prepare impervious and breathable sand, and to solve the problems of sandy soil that seeps easily and makes it difficult for vegetation to survive in desertified areas. The influences of coating material content, first-level and second-level rough structure on the impermeability and air permeability of impervious and breathable sand were studied. The research showed that, with the increase in coating material content, the impervious performance of the sample increased firstly and then decreased, and the air permeability rose continuously. The hydrostatic pressure resistance of the sample can reach an extreme value of 53 mm. The first-level rough structure of micron structure can greatly improve the hydrophobic performance, thus improving the impervious performance. The addition of micron calcium carbonate would improve the hydrostatic pressure resistance height of the sample to 190 mm. The sample would reach a superhydrophobic state in the condition of a first-level rough structure of a nano structure built by nano silica, and the contact angle was up to 152.0°, so that the hydrostatic pressure resistance height can rise to 205 mm. The best performance would be achieved under the condition of relatively less raw material with a second-level rough structure of micro–nano. At this point, the contact angle of the sample reached 152.8° and the hydrostatic pressure resistance height was up to 205 mm. At the same time, the air permeability index of the above four kinds of impervious and breathable sand met all planting requirements. The sample prepared can satisfy the demands of different degrees of impermeability and air permeability, and can be widely used in desertification control.

scholarly journals An evaluation of the general composition and critical raw material content of bauxite residue in a storage area over a twelve-year period

2019 ◽  
Vol 208 ◽  
pp. 393-401 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia B. Cusack ◽  
Ronan Courtney ◽  
Mark G. Healy ◽  
Lisa M.T. O’ Donoghue ◽  
Éva Ujaczki
Keyword(s):  
Bauxite Residue ◽  
Raw Material ◽  
Material Content ◽  
Storage Area

scholarly journals In-Depth Analysis and Defect Reduction for Ethiopian Cotton Spinning Industry Based on TQM Approach

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Abdella Simegnaw Ahmmed ◽  
Million Ayele
Keyword(s):  
Quality Management ◽  
Total Quality Management ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Process Variations ◽  
Raw Material ◽  
Export Market ◽  
Measuring System ◽  
Quality Level ◽  
Total Quality ◽  
Depth Analysis

Competition is truly global. Higher product quality is required for a company to become more competitive both locally and in international markets. Any textile company basically competes on its reputation for quality, reliability, and capability of processes and costs of quality and delivery. Currently, most of textile industries in Ethiopia are suffering from quality-related problems due to high process variations. These problems include poor performance of manufacturing products in the export market, insufficient qualitative raw material supply, customer dissatisfaction, low productivity, and poor utilization of the resources. These problems led to the manufacturing of low-quality products with a high cost, and because of this, most of the Ethiopian textile companies in the country are not competitive and profitable. The main objective of this study is to examine the existing traditional models of quality and to introduce an improved and emerged quality measuring system based on a methodological approach by using six sigma total quality management tools and analyzed by STATA 14.0 software. The analytical findings show that the application of total quality management (TQM) programs, tools, and techniques has been expanded beyond the traditional quality concepts and has improved the acceptable quality level of the product by 57.96% with a low cost.

scholarly journals PENGEMBANGAN USAHA BENIH JAGUNG TAHAN KERING

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 70
Author(s):  
S.M. Sarwadana ◽  
B.R.T. Putri ◽  
K.K. Dinata
Keyword(s):  
Raw Materials ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Raw Material ◽  
Maize Seed ◽  
Seed Corn ◽  
Entrepreneurial Spirit ◽  
Drought Tolerant ◽  
Production Processes ◽  
Maize Varieties ◽  
Made In

Activities of science and technology for innovation and creativity campus aims are: (1) thecommercialization of science and technology campus creativity as a source of financing for the developmentof institutions; (2) stimulate the entrepreneurial spirit among beings campus, and (3) help people get seeds ofdrought-tolerant maize varieties. Methods of execution include the business aspects of the planned businessactivities consist of: provision of raw materials, production processes, management, marketing, humanresources, facilities, and financial. The raw material is obtained from units of science and technology fornovation and creativity campus and through partnerships with farmers' seed corn. The production processstarted from seed, sorting, and packaging. Marketing is done directly, partnerships with local governmentsand konsiniasi with kiosk / farm shop. Results show that the activities of science and technology unit forinnovation and creativity campus drought-tolerant maize seed has gone well characterized by supportinfrastructure adequate maize seed production; IbIKK unit operates under the management of PSAgroecotechnology Faculty of Agriculture, University of Udayana; Of investment made in 2014 amountingto Rp. 39,550,000; Result of sales corn seeds turnover in 2014 amounted to 400 kg (Rp. 12 million); and netcash flow amounted to 17,672,400.

scholarly journals Strategic Sustainability Risk Management in Product Development Companies: Key Aspects and Conceptual Approach

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (24) ◽  
pp. 10531
Author(s):  
Jesko Schulte ◽  
Carolina Villamil ◽  
Sophie I. Hallstedt
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Product Development ◽  
Radical Change ◽  
Raw Material ◽  
Manufacturing Companies ◽  
Conceptual Approach ◽  
Strategic Risk ◽  
Sustainability Transition ◽  
Micro Level ◽  
Key Aspects

Society’s transition towards sustainability comes with radical change, which entails significant threats and opportunities for product development and manufacturing companies, for example related to new legislation, shifting customer preferences, and increasing raw material prices. Smart risk management therefore plays a key role for successfully maneuvering society’s sustainability transition. However, from a company perspective, it remains challenging to connect the macro-level societal change with tangible risks for the business on the micro level. Based on interviews with academic and industrial experts, this study identified 21 key aspects for sustainability risk management. Drawing on these results and research from the areas of transition design, strategic sustainable development, and sustainability risk management, a conceptual approach for strategic risk management within the sustainability transition is presented. It builds on layered, double-flow scenario modelling in which backcasting from a vision, framed by basic principles for sustainability, is combined with forecasting from the present. The implications of such scenarios, i.e., risks, can then be identified and managed. By doing so on different scales, connections between macro- and micro-level change can be established. Thereby, product development companies shall be supported in making sustainability an intrinsic part of decision-making across the strategic, tactical, and operational levels to increase competitiveness while contributing to the transition towards a sustainable society.

French Codes Used for EPR and Comparison With ASME Practices

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claude Faidy
Keyword(s):  
Radiation Protection ◽  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Power Plants ◽  
Nuclear Power Plants ◽  
Nuclear Industry ◽  
Quality Level ◽  
General Philosophy ◽  
Key Aspects ◽  
Leak Before Break ◽  
Minimum Quality

On December 2005, the French regulator issued a new regulation for French nuclear power plants, in particular for pressure equipment (PE). This regulation need first to agree with non-nuclear PE regulation and add to that some specific requirements, in particular radiation protection requirements. Different advantages are in these proposal, it’s more qualitative risk oriented and it’s an important link with non-nuclear industry. Only few components are nuclear specific. But, the general philosophy of the existing Codes (RCC-M, KTA or ASME) have to be improved. For foreign Codes, it’s plan to define the differences in the user specifications. In parallel to that, a new safety classification has been developed by French utility. The consequences is the need to cross all these specifications to define a minimum quality level for each components or systems. In the same time a new concept has been developed to replace the well known “Leak Before Break methodology” by the “Break Exclusion” methodology. This paper will summarize the key aspects of these different topics and regularly compare with ASME practices.

scholarly journals Global Factory and Local Field: Convergence and Divergence in the International Cane-Sugar Industry, 1850–1940

2004 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ulbe Bosma ◽  
Roger Knight
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
World War I ◽  
Sugar Industry ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
Cane Sugar ◽  
Raw Material ◽  
Colonial Era ◽  
Technological Convergence ◽  
Political Economies ◽  
Key Aspects

Technological convergence in the international sugar economy began in the 1830s and was substantially complete by the outbreak of World War I in 1914. By the end of the nineteenth century, the industrialized sugar factory was a global phenomenon like the steamship and the railway engine (to which key aspects of its innards were closely related). We will argue that the single most important fact about nineteenth-century sugar industries was the degree of technological convergence that came to characterize their manufacturing sectors, regardless of the type of labour involved. A revisiting of the literature of the past twenty-five years, both in the New and Old Worlds, suggests that historians have yet fully to come to terms with the global character of this convergence and with the question of why convergence in the factory had no parallel in the field, where there continued to be a striking global divergence between the means and modes by which the industry was supplied with raw material. This problem in the recent historiography of the subject also highlights issues relating to the “proletarianization” of labour and the assumption that industrial capitalist modernity was inextricably associated with the development of “free labour”. More specifically, it draws attention to major flaws in the terms of reference of the now classic debate about the nexus between technological change and the predominant forms of labour in the Caribbean production area. In so doing, it underlines the need for a global rather than simply regional approach to the dynamics of change in the international sugar industry of the late colonial era. The latter part of our article outlines the broad historical parameters of this divergence in the sugar-cane field, and suggests the need for exploring the political economies surrounding the sugar producing areas and their mechanisms of ethnic segmentation of the labour force in particular.

scholarly journals APPLICATION OF PACKAGING AND LABEL FOR MEMBERS OF PKK BUSINESS GROUP, COGREK VILLAGE, PARUNG DISTRICT

ICCD ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 501-506
Author(s):  
Levyda Levyda ◽  
Kania Ratnasari ◽  
Susy Budhiharty
Keyword(s):  
Science And Technology ◽  
Business Groups ◽  
Business Group ◽  
Raw Material ◽  
Processed Food ◽  
Aesthetic Quality ◽  
Significant Development ◽  
Processed Products ◽  
One Year

Science and Technology for the Community is carried out for business groups belonging to the PKK of Cogrek Village, Parung District. The group produces processed food with catfish raw material. After 1 (one) year of trying, it still has not experienced significant development. The main cause is a limited market, packaging and also labeling of catfish processed products that are less attractive. In order to increase market attractiveness, packaging and labels will be made for the group and marketing consultations. At present there is an increase in packaging aesthetic quality and labels

scholarly journals Sustainable products in the leather industry

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olga Ballus ◽  
Anna Bacardit
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Footprint ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Raw Material ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Leather Industry ◽  
Material Content ◽  
Sustainable Products ◽  
Short Lifespan ◽  
Renewable Raw Material ◽  
Lower Carbon

Protecting the environment is one of the three objectives of sustainability. One way to achieve this is to preserve natural resources by using renewable or residual raw materials. These products have a shorter lifespan and a lower carbon footprint, are highly biodegradable, and are therefore considered to be sustainable products. In this paper, three retanning agents and two oils classified as sustainable products were studied. First, biobased carbon content (an indicator of renewable raw material content) was determined. Then, the physical and organoleptic properties of the leathers treated with each product (degree of softness, firmness and fullness) were evaluated. The COD of residual baths was also determined in oils. The products presented in this paper meet the sustainability requirements, i.e., high renewable raw material content, short lifespan, and low carbon footprint. In addition, these products show high fixation and therefore have a low COD in residual baths, thus also contributing to their sustainability.

scholarly journals Mejoramiento de la calidad en la recepción de materias primas, mediante la implementación de un plan de muestreo por variables

2020 ◽  
pp. 19-31
Author(s):  
Fernando Hernández-Benito ◽  
Martín González-Sóbal ◽  
Montserrat Gómez-Márquez ◽  
Miguel Ángel Solís-Jiménez
Keyword(s):  
Sampling Plan ◽  
Raw Material ◽  
Quality Level ◽  
Current State ◽  
Acceptable Quality ◽  
Inspection Process ◽  
Acceptable Quality Level ◽  
Action Strategies ◽  
Process Methodology

Objective: To guarantee the adequate inspection of raw material and packaging material by the inspection-receipt area by implementing an effective sampling plan that allows reducing the percentage of defective raw material and its impact on the production process. Methodology: It is based on the continuous improvement cycle (PHVA) within which a diagnosis is made to determine the current state of the inspection process, which will allow defining new action strategies aimed at standardizing the inspection process, through the implementation of a sampling plan by variables based on the MIL-STD 414 standard, once implemented, this process is documented, at the same time the integration of suppliers is carried out, through periodic evaluations in order to know the dynamics of the new inspection process and work only with those suppliers committed to the quality of their inputs. Contribution: Reduction of the percentage of defective raw material, from 21% to 13%, which means an acceptable quality level of the materials of 87%.

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