Abstract: The setting of textile machinery parameters is an important aspect that combines implicit knowledge of workers and engineers with explicit knowledge. As yarn and fabrics involved in a textile process are multicomponent artefacts, in order to automatize this process of machine configuration, a method for dissimilarity computation between two yarns is proposed including one or a combination of four algorithms to evaluate the similarity between two yarns, each composed by a list of materials. The method has proved to be successful for spinning setting and it can be applied in other steps of a textile process like weaving.

Abstract: A system for secure transfer of wireless data. The system includes a wireless client, an enterprise server, a server stack, a client stack, a server-side application adapter, a client-side application adapter, a volatile memory and an authentication manager. The server stack provides communication services between the enterprise server and the wireless client. The client stack provides communication services between the enterprise server and the wireless client. The server-side application adapter provides an interface between the server stack and a server application. The client-side application adapter provides an interface between the client stack and a client application. The volatile memory is located on the wireless client and stores authentication information. The authentication manager module manages authentication information stored in the volatile memory and transfers authentication information to the client-side adapter.