Machine interference model application in woven fabric production

In a fully integrated textile factory, fabric production consists of yarn preparation, yarn production, weaving preparation, weaving, finishing and quality control processes. The weaving process is a phase in which the yarn becomes the surface of the textile and is one of the most important cost processes due to the worker intensity, machine intensity and energy consumption. In this study, the machine breakdowns at the weaving mill in an integrated textile factory producing woolen fabrics and the number of employees assigned to eliminate these downtimes have been applied in order to provide optimum conditions. For this study, three of the most produced products in the plant were emphasized and data related to the loom group, where these products were produced, were collected. The collected data were examined and the number of optimum machines to be looked at in accordance with the queueing theorem approach was determined by considering the costs