Design and development of a software for production planning in textile industries

Abstract

Production planning is a very important phase of production for a textile industry. It is basically the process of determining a tentative plan for how much production will occur in the next several time periods, during an interval of time called the planning horizon. Proper production planning ensures that the resources are used in the best possible manner and the cost of production is minimized and delivery date is maintained. It ensures maximum utilization of machine, labor and material and minimizes idle time, overtime, process delays, lead time, and work-in-process (WIP) inventory and organizes production schedule in conformity with the demand forecasts. To implement proper production planning, computer automation is very much necessary. Few commercial automation software for textile industries have already in the market but they are very expensive and planning phase is not integrated with it. The project in this report presents the development of software for production planning purpose and it has been integrated with the commercial software named as DyeMaster which are widely used in textile industry. To develop the software system, the requirements for the software has been analyzed and then E-R and dataflow diagram of the proposed system have been drawn and then necessary table for the database have been determined and designed. Based on this design computer programming of the system has been developed. It provides a user friendly interface for (i) Order Entry (ii) Item wise auto batch creation (iii) machine batch planning (iv) Production Process Tracking (v) Production plan report. The software is expected to facilitate efficient production management for any textile industry.