Autor: Guido Grau

Small batch sizes are a necessity in the textile industry due to the increasing diversification of products and end applications as well as short-term orders in networked value chains. At the same time, this involves a high level of configuration, planning, preparation and im-plementation. The costs increase disproportionately and are usually not directly quantifia-ble. In addition, sustainability considerations are now increasingly required. This article de-scribes an SME-suitable, simulation-based methodology for analyzing and configuring tex-tile manufacturing systems with regard to ecological and economic sustainability for small batch sizes in textile manufacturing and illustrates this using textile manufacturing in the weaving industry as an example.

Digitization and sustainable development are playing an important role in many areas, especially in production, although it is still unclear how they influence each other. First studies already addressed the question of how digitization can impact sustainability. It became clear that an evaluation method with indicators from all sustainability perspectives is needed. In this article, we will present a model-based evaluation method especially for ecological and economic sustainability, taking digital textile printing as an example. (Only in German)

Lifelong learning is an elementary part of the knowledge society and of high importance for industries and societies facing digitization (Industry 4.0). This comprises individual opportunities for the employees as well as competitive advantages for companies. Two concrete solutions for textile and clothing industry will be presented here: on the one hand a sector wide offer for vocational training and on the other hand an adaptable IT based learning method enabling learning in the workplace. Both solutions show cutting edge concepts, technologies and didactic.