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Automation:
Robots, CNC machine tools, ASRS, security systems, CAD/CAM systems, logistics support tools, automated inspection systems, material handling systems
Types of Automation:
Fixed automation:
Shortage of labor
New process technologies require automation
For the above facilities, automation is widely used in:
Automation is a technology dealing with the application of mechatronics and computers for production of goods and services. It is one the major key to quality improvement and cost competitiveness. In the last couple of decades, automation in textile industry has taken place in all the processes involving textile manufacture i.e. cotton picking, ginning, spinning, weaving, and processing and even to some extent in garment making, resulting in enormous gains in productivity and efficiency.
Automation is broadly classified into:
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| Automation in ring frame |
- Manufacturing automation and
- Service automation
Robots, CNC machine tools, ASRS, security systems, CAD/CAM systems, logistics support tools, automated inspection systems, material handling systems
Types of Automation:
Fixed automation:
- Custom-engineered, special-purpose equipment to automate a fixed sequence of operations (high production rates, inflexible product design)
- Equipment designed to accommodate a specific class of product changes (batch production, medium volume)
- Designed to manufacture a variety of products or parts (low production rates, varying product design and demand)
Shortage of labor
- The ratio of the number of workers to the number of retirees.
- May not always make sense to establish plants in countries with low labor costs
- Value of output per person per hour increases
- reduced scrap rate
- lower in-process inventory
- superior quality
- superior quality
- shorter (compact) lines
- respond quickly to the consumers’ needs
- rapid response to changes in design
- lower prices, better products
- better image
- better labor relations
New process technologies require automation
- e.g., robot controlled thermal spray torch for coating engine blocks with steel with atomized steel particles
For the above facilities, automation is widely used in:
- Automation in Fiber Production/Manufacturing
- Automation in Yarn Manufacturing
- Automation in Fabric Manufacturing
- Automation in Dyeing/Wet Processing
- Automation in Apparel Manufacturing
- Automation in Textile Testing and Quality Control
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