What is Fusing Machine? Its Working Process

by Engr. Kh. Mashiur Rahman | Dec 3, 2018 | Finishing

Fusing Machine

The fusing machine has always been a bit of a problem because there are many different types of fusing. The fusing cannot be too thin, as the bone in collar will be visible especially on  white materials. The rolling space should not measure more than a few Millimeters

Factories do use different bias tolerances for skin, patch and collar band. In Bangladesh, Peter Kwong  and Mr Turan  made some  experiments  with the following bias tolerances as follows: skin 35% patch 23% band 9%. The sample collars  from Bangladesh look good. We, in Brussels, received many different collars from Different factories  like: China factory,  Gin-Win,  Bangladesh factories

• Weekly production planning status report of Fusing Machine
• Fabric inspection report
• No fusing, pressing, button stitch/buttonhole, snap button attach machine, bartack and body form available in the sample room.
• Hard pattern, knitting chart, board pattern for pressing without pattern maker/checker’s name, signature, seal & date. Customer and order number to be mentioned as well.
• Garment & sweater panel wash test records and reference sample found inconsistent with production records.
• Daily production report
• Trims/ Accessories inspection report.
• Inventory record for fabrics & accessories.
• Cutting inspection report spreading market, 100% cut panel etc.
• Fusing check report and the log book of calibration
• Fabrics, accessories, trims and components in sample room are not kept on shelves or racks or pallets with cover. Storage of samples, trims & accessories is not appropriate and not tidy. Poor housekeeping.
• Insufficient lighting found in sample room. Should
• Calibration records for each fusing machine missing and date of calibration and expiry date not mentioned on machine.
• Air conditioning non purified water kept in the fusing room & the water is dropping down into into a bucket near where fused parts are kept
• Production file to should contain the following: all kinds of test reports, approved trim card, sample comments, make sheet, spec, pre-production meeting record, trial cut record, first output comments etc.
• Fabric needs to be sent to interlining supplier to obtain data sheet (temperature/pressure/timing) on fusing conditions during sampling stage.
• Inline/ End line inspection report
• Daily measurement report
• Final inspection (Final audit, Pre final ) report
• Third party audit report for last year
• Snap pull test record
• Fabric relaxation record-Knits (with date & time)
• All measuring must be calibrated.

Other Issue

Types of Fusing

Thickness of fusing:

We  would like to advise  the thickness grams per M2 of the fusing as shown in list below. The list will help all parties Brussels buying, Mondial and the factories.

The list:

The list below: Fusing thickness has been selected and put together for shirts made in regular poplin material 40’s 50’s yarn . Please do use one step thinner fusing machine when the thickness of the material is thicker than poplin Like (dobby weave/oxford). I would say one step

thinner on thicker material as follows: If the fusing on poplin is  3630 use 3620 this would then be for the 1^st and 2^nd layer and collar band too. 

Cuff fusing:

We can always use the same fusing like 1^st layer of the collar

Placket fusing:

This fusing can be on a roll, the fashion is not  thick and stiff plackets. The placket needs to be soft and smooth.

Starting point:

The list bellow is an attempt to start putting some information together and can be changed at all times for better results

Conclusion

Fusing Machine -The function of the placket fusing  is only to reinforce the buttonhole and help the stitching of the placket edge.