Cutting direction – Case #508

September 9, 2016

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“A picture is worth a thousand words”. Practical solutions to problems encountered in the manufacturing process that demonstrate how we assist our customers’ factories to produce Right from the Start TM.

Problem: tearing of the drill cloth lining because the factory was cutting it in the wrong fiber direction (90 degrees).

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Impactiva solution: we got the factory to cut the lining cloth in 45 degrees. We made a show board describing the correct direction of synthetic material cutting, and placed it on travel head of the cutting machine.

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Stay tuned for more Impactiva technical solutions to every day production problems.