Application of simulation technique in weaving mills

Restricted possibilities for flexible working are among the basic problems in order-oriented textile weaving mills. In order to increase production and get orders ready on time, weaving mills generally focus on the speed and performance of the machines. However, the basic problem lies in a lack of organisation which definitively causes bottlenecks. In this study, a weaving mill which produces fabric based upon orders has been chosen as a subject, and this firm's current system has been simulated. After working on the current system, the data were evaluated and the bottlenecks determined. Thus, alternative systems were created instead of the current system, and these alternative systems were compared with this current system. Further, thanks to the improved simulation program, the ordered product's delivery date can be easily estimated. In this way, we aim to give ideas about optimising organisation and estimating the delivery dates of the orders for the weaving mills with this kind of job process.