ABSTRACT
During the first phase when twenty-four looms were working the conditions, as already described, were chaotic. A conference of all those in the shed was held to find a solution. The beginning of the second phase was marked by the differentiation into front and back work. A second conference discussed the results, more looms were erected, and experiments were started in controlling warp-breakage rates by changing loom speeds. By the beginning of the third phase thirty-six more looms had been erected and the decision taken to lay out the loom shed in three blocks of forty looms each. Stoppages were standardized at 3·0 ±0· 5 per loom hour.
