Automatic fabric cutting

Abstract

Automation plays a vital role in many production industries. Cutting is the first working department in garments production. Garments manufacturing includes three major operations which are cutting, sewing or stitching, finishing. Amongst the three main production processes, a considerable amount of fabrics would be lost during the cutting and spreading process. In order to reduce the time, man power, cost and wastage of material occurred during the manual cutting process, a new kind of approach is made. The proposed system automatically cuts the fabric cloth. The solution is in the form of an Arduino driven device that cuts the fabric to the given length automatically. Arduino Uno is used as a controller. This system consists of two parts. One is the conveyor part and another one is the cutting part. Here, Conveyor is used to spread the fabric roll and move the fabric continuously. Cutting part consists of a cutting blade at the end of the conveyor which is operated with the help of a servo motor.The user simply inputs the length and count of the fabric using matrix keypad. This method provides a degree of accuracy and speed of cut much greater than manual cutting. It reduces the wastage of fabric and makes the business profitable.