Textile Design Economics

TEX0
(Level 3)

Dr. Tamer F. Khalifa

2018-2019
Lecture (4)
 Textile Industry Market
• The textile industry has a market with high competitiveness
and a lot of pressure on product design area and creativity.
Textile-making companies seek to adapt to the inter-national
market and become more competitive present-ing products
that represent the expected performance.
• Aesthetic issues, technological and manufacturing factors,
market forces and cultural imperatives are important
considerations that directly affect this process of creating and
making of designs.

• The design practices is all about the use of resources and

methods of the textile contributes to the development of the
product and also meets the needs of customers in an
economic way
• Companies seek to expand its production
following current concepts to become more
competitive in the market.
• Necessarily, the techniques of production of
goods prioritize ways to make the increasingly
an active process to the use of limited
resources, quality and performance of the
company.
• A balance should be established between the factors that
add value to the product and those which cause increased
costs.
• for example,
• the increase in function and quality improvement. Then,
the choice of the most expensive components of the
product and dilation design time.
• This commitment will be well set to result in a feasible
product to compete in the market in constant change.
Otherwise, the product may fail, and the resources
invested in their development will be lost
Today’s existential questions

Why are we designing products for the developing world?

Why be profitable?

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 AREAS OF COST REDUCTION:

 1. Design
 2. Factory organization and method
 3. Product planning
 4. Factory layout and equipment
 5. Utility services
 6. Marketing
Distribution of the various costs in the flows to
products and residual materials