The fabric feeding management for automatic clothing manufacture

摘要

The exploitation of "intelligent" factory set-ups enhances the competitiveness of the EU textile and clothes industries, by enabling collaborative design-and-manufacture options, while achieving economies of scope with effective exploitation of (strategic/tactical/execution) flexibility. Simulation turns to be reference aid for developing and acknowledging the appropriate set-ups and the adaptive schedules. The paper, besides reference concepts, summarises a case example related to the management of the fabric warehouse, in order to grant adaptive sorting and dispatching of bolts, by on-process optimisation of the actually used cloth, with account of fabric quality-data and of time-varying schedules. The combined-mode schedules show the benefits for qick response, leaving open middle/long horizons issues; checks on alternatives are provided by virtual reality tests.