Washing clothes is a headache trouble, clothing shrinkage after washing is more annoying. In summer clothing, cheap cotton short-sleeves often shrink to a small size; in autumn and winter clothing, expensive wool jumpers will also be deformed after washing. Shrinkage after the clothing is difficult to return to the original state, which is often regrettable.
For consumers, the most convenient way to avoid clothing washing shrinkage is to choose high-quality fabrics, excellent fabric manufacturers will be in the finishing time for shrinkage treatment; or in the washing time, for easy to shrink fabrics, can be sent to a professional laundry shop dry cleaning or use dry cleaning agent, dry cleaning agent is not easy to lead to fibre expansion, so as to prevent the clothing shrinkage.
In textile laboratories, fabric shrinkage tests are usually carried out according to European, American, National or Japanese standards as well as internal quality control standards. Common test standards include GB/T8629, JIS1930, which is basically equivalent to ISO6330, and the American Standard Shrinkage Test, which is commonly known as AATCC 88B, AATCC 124, and so on.
The traditional shrinkage tester is cumbersome and requires manpower to participate in the entire measurement process, which is time-consuming and highly efficient in terms of errors. The following is a comparison between the testing process of traditional shrinkage tester and the testing process of the latest intelligent shrinkage tester, let’s explore the biggest difference between them?
Contrast between Conventional and Smart Shrinkage Rate Tester
Conventional Fabric Shrinkage Rate Testing Process
- Place the fabric sample flat on the working table;
- Measure the dimensions between the borderline marked positions in the weft direction;
- Measure the dimensions between the borderline marked positions in the warp direction;
- Calculate the shrinkage rate manually and record it on the label;
- Summarize the data and fill in the form;
- Input the data into the computer.
The whole process takes over 4 minutes!
Manual operation, the greater the workload ,the higher the error rate!
SmartShrink Fabric Shrinkage Rate Testing Process
- Scan the code of the fabric sample to identify the sample information;
- Place the sample flat on the platform of SmartShrink Rate Tester, and the camera above automatically collects the dimensions between the borderline marked positions on warp and weft directions of the fabric;
- The shrinkage rate is calculated automatically in real-time by the computer software connected to the SmartShrink.
Just needs 5 seconds!
Smart&Auto measurement, more accurate and faster, with lower error rate!
Choosing SmartShrink, the normal fabric factory can save 800 minutes, based on the need of testing 200 samples and printing 200 test records per day.
Counting a salary of $ 9000 per person in USA & European Countries, 1 set of SmartShrink can save $200,000 for the fabric factory per year.
How Smartshrink benefits you more
Speed up the preparation of orders
SmartShrink can complete a large number of shrinkage calculations every day, thus the textile enterprises can make faster decisions and speed up the preparation of orders.
More reliable test results
Visual inspection algorithm, more accurate, especially in large batch testing, can effectively avoid manual deviation, which is meaningful for getting more reliable test results.
Output multiple data at one time, reflecting the quality of fabric more comprehensively and objectively.
Multiple shrinkage related indexes (such as warp and weft shrinkage, seam twist, vertical twist, diagonal twist, etc.) can be output at one time, useful to evaluate the quality of the fabric.
What’s more, SmartShrink is equipped with high & soft brightness of LED lighting, no flicker and eye-friendly.
Streamline your testing process with SmartShrink now.
