COMPUTER IMPLEMENTED METHOD FOR DISSIMILARITY COMPUTATION BETWEEN TWO YARNS TO BE USED FOR SETTING OF A TEXTILE MACHINE IN A TEXTILE PROCESS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT

摘要

The setting of textile machinery parameters is an important aspect that combines implicit knowledge of workers and engineers with explicit knowledge. As yarn and fabrics involved in a textile process are multicomponent artefacts, in order to automatize this process of machine configuration, a method for dissimilarity computation between two yarns is proposed including one or a combination of four algorithms to evaluate the similarity between two yarns, each composed by a list of materials. The method has proved to be successful for spinning setting and it can be applied in other steps of a textile process like weaving.