Textile Product Engineering

The Conference Board of Canada defines innovation as a ¿process through which economic or social value is extracted from knowledge through the generation, development and implementation of ideas to produce new or improved products, processes and services.¿ The Department of Trade and Industry, UK defines it as ¿the successful exploitation of new ideas¿. As far as India is concern, only small investment (0.9% of GDP) on R&D as compared to USA (2.7% of GDP) and China (2.08% of GDP). An illustration of the importance of new product development can be seen in the area of the TECHNICAL TEXTILES. Country's technical textiles market which is currently estimated at $14 billion is likely to reach a level of $32 billion by 2023( 20% growth per annum). However, this book is divided into four chapters. The first one deals with product development, second for design logic of textile products, third for simulation of specific properties or structures leading to design, fourth is for case studies related to product development. More than 20 case studies are are illustrated with reference in technical textiles to explore the possibilities of product development in technical textiles.