TITV Greiz enhances its accredited testing center offerings with a cutting-edge haptic testing device that allows manufacturers, processors, and retailers of textiles and nonwovens to objectively assess the tactile comfort of their products.
This new device provides reliable, quantifiable data on key attributes such as softness and smoothness of both intermediate and finished textile products. These measurements can also be used to calculate specific handfeel values, enabling a direct and objective comparison of the tactile properties of textiles.
Historically, the haptic quality of textiles has been evaluated using hand panels, which are influenced by subjective factors such as individual preferences, mood, and market trends. Furthermore, this traditional method cannot isolate the individual qualities of softness, roughness, and stiffness in a single test.
Objective data of the new device not only provides manufacturers with greater insight into their products' performance but also serves as a powerful selling point in the growing online retail space, helping to reduce return rates by providing customers with more accurate expectations of product feel.
Sandra Haase, Deputy Head of the Accredited Testing Centre, during the testing process with the TSA
The TSA Tactile Sensation Analyser from emtec for objectively determining the softness, roughness and stiffness of textiles
