ABSTRACT
Brief outlook at the yarn manufacturing processes used in the textile industry, ring spinning involves a mixture of quality control and production line operations. With the material testing as the predominant feature, quite a large units of between the different stages. Material therefore hardly flows along the shortest path in regular cycles from a production unit directly to the same downstream operation every time. This type of manufacturing process has four serious drawbacks: i. Too high transport cost (almost 50-60 percent of total labour cost)
ii. Long material lead times (with correspondingly long delivery lead time)
iii. Large volume intermediate storage of material to prevent back stuff shortage. This makes substantial amounts of capital unnecessarily tied up.
